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The Uffizi’s “Wounded warrior” is a Greek original

It was previously believed that the statue was a copy

The V&A recruits European talent

Dr Norbert Jopek to join Sculpture department

The Getty Kouros: The masterpiece versus fake debate continues

Perhaps it is better to journey than to arrive, as the authentication process of this work has encouraged significant research into kouroi sculpture

Booksarchive

Agnew’s 175th anniversary: the memoirs of a senior partner, Dick Kingzett

A vanished variety of collectors: the priest, the Russian in exile, the actor, the V&A Keeper, the German and Dutch aesthetes—and a millionaire

Sotheby'sarchive

Sleeper found at Sotheby's found to be genuine fifteenth-century sculpture

Very few bronzes survive from this period, making the piece a remarkable find

Forgeriesarchive

French bronze founders propose action against forgery

Syndicat Général des Fondeurs de France decide on a code of conduct and a central register

Banca Toscana to sponsor restoration of Cimabue’s altarpiece “Maestà”

The structure that replaced the wooden support has caused the 13th century Madonna to rupture

Art Baselarchive

The upcoming Art Basel '92 will see no challenge to the fair's preeminence

The event that traditionally brings the American buyers to Europe opens 17 June

Following the Rodin fakes scandal French bronze founders act to protect their good name

The Syndicat concluded that French legislation is incomplete in its definitions of reproductions and forgery

Iraqarchive

Non-compliance with Security Council’s resolutions holds up UNESCO mission to reunite Iraq with treasures lost in Gulf War

More than 4,000 museum items missing according to Director General of the Iraqi Antiquities Department

Zygmunt Vogel’s vision of Warsaw

These 36 watercolours of the city were crucial in its reconstruction

Lootingarchive

Looted Bremen drawings on show at the Hermitage in June

About 150 items from the collection will be displayed at the exhibition

“We buy figureheads, busts, portraits, banners—at high prices”

Moscow author amasses a collection of depictions of Lenin and Stalin before they are destroyed

Let them take their art with them into the afterlife: Achille Bonito Oliva proposes a dignified exit for contemporary works of art

What is the point of restoring modern art? Is it reasonable to treat a Rauschenberg as if it were a Leonardo?

Count down to 1993 and the United States of Europe—are you prepared? Everything you need to know about the European Commission and the Maastricht Treaty

Read this and keep it if you’re an artist, a dealer, an auctioneer, a collector, a museum curator, an academic, a publisher, an advertiser, a sponsor, a restorer, an architect, a lawyer or an arts administrator—inside or outside Europe

Touring retrospective celebrates thirty years of Baselitz

Currently at the Munich Kunsthalle, the exhibition will next move to the Edinburgh National Gallery of Modern Art

United Technologies’ strategic withdrawal

Corporation to drop arts sponsorship programme

John Rothenstein, the Tate Gallery’s longest serving director, dies

Douglas Cooper v. the Knight Commander of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle: round one

The Royal Academy shows Calder in the first British show for thirty years

Underappreciated in Britain, the Sackler Galleries mobilise for this modern master

Touring Russian Avant-garde Exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle goes on amid disunity amongst curators and the inclusion of possible forgeries

The show will proceed to to the Guggenheim despite confusion arising from a lack of transparent communication between Russian and US committee members

Excavations explore how far beyond the ramparts the Trojan War was fought

Excavations suggest that the ten-year war was fought some distance away from Priam's rock

Final decision on carve up of Dalí estate in Spain

Attempts to control spread of fakes with thousands seized in New York

Ethicsarchive

The place of scholars in the commercial art market: how to avoid shameful infections and a diminution of the truth?

It is pointless to pretend that the commercial art world and the worlds of research do not interpenetrate each other. Here we look at the relationship, present and past, and ask ourselves, in what respect is the art historian any different from the lawyer who sells his opinion?

V&A curtails access to its national collections of slides and books

National Slide Library transfer to Leicester to proceed in spite of protests