The Art Newspaper

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

The art of death surveyed at the V&A

An eclectic selection of memento mori

Venice archive

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

Moral guidelines for archaeology

New rules and guidelines for archaeologists around the world.

Unescoarchive

Restoration workshop set up within Aachen cathedral

Imperial cathedral needs DM40 million after further damage was found to the building and its furnishings

Raphaelarchive

Raphael re-discovered in Northumberland Collection

Raphael’s “Madonna of the Pinks” has now been firmly reattributed after cleaning

Private sponsorship rescues exhibition centred on Picasso's Rose Period

While for a time its fate hung in the balance due to insurance costs, the exhibition is now set to begin in Barcelona

What's On: Giacometti's output fully represented in exhibition at Paris's Musée d'Art Modern de la Ville

Open until 15 March, the show may serve as an introduction to the sculptor for a post-war generation unfamiliar with his legacy

Tatearchive

Problems with British Museum acquisitions summed up in new show 'Collecting the Twentieth Century'

An exhibition at the British Museum makes Brian Sewell question whether it should be buying twentieth-century material at all

Chastleton goes into National Trust ownership

Jacobean Oxfordshire house purchased for £2 million

Damage inflicted on cultural monuments in the Yugoslav conflict

Report of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments, Croatian Ministry of Education and Culture, with information collected by 5 October 1991

Radar helps find amphitheatre without digging

New combination of techniques leads to important finds at ancient Italica

Cambodiaarchive

The Art Newspaper brings an update on Angkor Wat situation and what is being done to preserve its treasures and history

Conservation projects are urgently needed, however hope is found underneath the Phnom Penh museum

Newsarchive

War in Croatia: An open letter in protest of the devastation in Yugoslavia

Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks

Leonardo da Vinci next at the next Palazzo Grassi

Leonardo the artist and the scientist will be on show

Lootingarchive

The library of the Sabatinis

After decades of pretending to know nothing about it, Mainz University library reluctantly returns Nazi loot of precious books

Enigma by Clifford Irving delves into the fakes and forgeries of Elmyr de Hory

Over 20 years after it was originally written, Irving's book finally sees the sun

Leonardo prize for dealer sleuths

The Accademia Italiana announces award in conjunction with fair