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Spanish to bring in laws that smooth the path for art sponsorship

Tax mandates pertaining to the acquisition of art will be eased for both donors and foundations

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What future for the looted Krebs Collection?

Rumours of a Sotheby’s valuation have encouraged talk of auction

Dalí’s former secretary Descharnes fights back against governmental meddling in estate rights

“The Spanish State cannot cancel a private agreement which is valid until 2004”

Luis Monreal, director of La Caixa, has a national-sized budget to spend

The Spanish savings bank, had an operating budget of $67.64 million in 1993, of which $11.87 million was spent on visual arts projects

The end of the Grands Projets

France's culture budget will see a 2.5% drop in real terms next year

Divorce in casa Dalí as Gala-Dalí Foundation and Spain seize control

State and Foundation cancel their contract with Descharnes, the artist’s former secretary and administrator of copyright

ICA becomes first UK arts centre to enter into title sponsorship with Toshiba agreement

In exchange for the monetary support the car company will provide, all ICA branding will include their logo

Happy First Birthday, Tate St Ives

A first year of success for Cornish gallery

Bank debtors’ Van Gogh withdrawn as fake

While there is some support for its attribution, doubt still lingers

African art exhibitions are being scrutinised over possible neo-colonialism and categorisation worries

Perhaps the problem lies with the lack of suitable definitions created by African artists themselves?

Council of Europe report emphasises danger to works of art in emergency storage

30% of the movable cultural property in Croatia needs emergency treatment

Eighteen Giacometti pieces from his wife’s estate to be sold by auctioneer Jacques Tajan

Sculptural ensemble "La clairière" is a standout, expected to reach up to 6 million francs

Calder for sale in London

Tapping into the artist's popularity after the success of his RA appearance

Pugin, founder of modernism, in a riot of polychromy at the V&A

A major survey of the high priest of the Gothic Revival

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Where is the real Van Gogh’s “White House at Night”?

Fears are growing that the version in the St Petersburg is a replica

Sardinian antiquities on show in Paris accused of being fake

Leading expert queries items in exhibition, all of which come from private collections

Booksarchive

Updated Getty Museum illustrated catalogue

Charissa Bremer-David et al Decorative Arts: an illustrated summary catalogue of the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Museumsarchive

MoMA acquires 13,500 artists’ books

Franklin Furnace sold the collection to give them more space for performance

March 1994archive

Master faker Alfred André's cache of evidence revealed

“Renaissance” jewels in the National Gallery of Art are by the hitherto unknown faker

Frank Lloyd Wright retrospective at MoMA

The exhibition covers the span of his seventy year career, and includes a huge range of works and materials

Newsarchive

Painting captured in police sting is by Raphael, says leading expert

The owner's careless sales technique led the carabinieri right to his doorstep

Politicsarchive

Former Greek premier caught red-handed with illegal antiquities

Almost all Minoan antiquities assembled by former premier, Mr Mitsotakis, appear to have an illegal provenance.

Booksarchive

Abstract Expressionism at the Tate

“Myth making: Abstract Expressionist painting from the United States”

At last we have a serious decorative arts show: John Channon at the V&A,

The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.