The Art Newspaper
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
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
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
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Leonardo and Venetian painting at Palazzo Grassi
Highlights include the “Vitruvian Man”
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
Studies in Modern Art from MOMA to be published annually
The inaugural edition focuses on works from the 1960s
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
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
True claim to Malevich works still to be determined, but Popov eager to strike a deal involving Koening Collection
The Amsterdam Old Master drawings may be swapped for others owned by the van Beuningen Museum in Russia
Hermitage to exhibit Bremen Old Master drawings
Director does not foresee restitution to Germany
Austria to the aid of the Croatian heritage as war rages
Old historical ties revived as the Kunsthistorisches Museum, with government blessing, devises a conservation package
Michael Werner Gallery sells Berlinische Galerie a Baselitz for DM2.3 million
The buy was demonstrative of the gallery's commitment to acquiring works from that period
Are the Italians fit to look after Venice?
A French magazine suggests that the Adriatic city should be put in the charge of the EC, echoing a proposal by the European Commissioner for the Environment
Books: New 'comprehensive biography' fails to go beyond the public face of Joseph Beuys
Heiner Stachelhaus' book on the German artist leaves a lot to be desired
Interview with Marcel Duchamp: Buried in the BBC archives since 1959, and published here for the first time
Talking about his readymades and his most complicated work “The large glass”, now in Philadelphia, Duchamp reflects on how little he meant to people in the late Fifties, when the painterliness of Abstract Expressionism ruled
Photographic exhibition documents the cost of the Croatian conflict
A harrowing look into the damage wreaked during the last seven months
Forty-five years later and they’re still hunting for the legendary Amber Room
But would we even think it beautiful if it came to light?
Moral guidelines for archaeology
New rules and guidelines for archaeologists around the world.