Italy
Venetian mega-exhibition aims to highlight plight of European craftsmanship
Homo Faber's initiative, focussing on artisanal techniques, will take over the entire Fondazione Giorgio Cini next autumn
Turin exhibition dwells on contemporary art's futile obsession with the new
OGR's first show remixes the city's collections from antiquity to present, reflecting on the over production of contemporary art and the fact nothing is new
Back to the future: Artissima to champion 80s art and new talent
New director Ilaria Bonacossa introduces a drawings section and plans to return Turin fair to its experimental roots
Lorenzo Quinn to follow in Christo’s footsteps by creating work for Lake Iseo
Italian artist known for submerging a giant pair of hands in Venice’s Grand Canal plans to install the steel sculpture next year
Mosaic floor from Caligula’s ship returned to Italy
New York authorities tracked down the object, which was being used as a coffee table by a Manhattan couple, after a photograph appeared in a book on porphyry
What if Italy sold this 5,000-piece hoard of orphan antiquities?
Experts say the haul, the result of a 14-year investigation, could raise as much as €15m for the country’s cash-strapped archaeological service
Antonio II Badile: An Italian Renaissance drawing collector and his family
Casting light on an overlooked but fascinating aspect of the Renaissance
More questions than answers after ‘miraculous’ Russian avant-garde show
Specialists express concern about lack of provenance for works by artists including Rodchenko and Goncharova in Italian exhibition
Digital access to Italian banks’ art
300,000 works owned by banks belonging to the Associazione Bancaria Italiana to become available to view online
Obituary: Gae Aulenti
One of the few Italian women to achieve fame in architecture, not least for turning a train station into the Musée d’Orsay
Return of Morgantina Venus inspires Sicilian tourism enterprise
Public-private tourism partnership aims to make more of the island’s heritage.
Italian pop art forgery scandal widens as six more works are now being sought
Public prosecutor Giuseppe Ferrando pursues fakes tied to JZ Art gallery
The history and current state of Herculaneum
The other ancient disaster area
Interview with Alessandro Mendini on radical design: “I’m what we Italians call a dilettantissimo”
Alessandro Mendini celebrates his 80th birthday this year—and his approach to design continues to be relevant
Italian to run Warsaw’s Centre for Contemporary Art
Poland appoints first foreign museum director
Daniel Libeskind in war of words with Berlusconi
The architect has described the Italian Prime Minister as a xenophobe who “hates foreigners” and compares his government to the Fascist regime
New York collector Shelby White returns antiquities to Italy
White's restitution of the illegally excavated objects is a first for the US
Antiquities dealer Jerome Eisenberg returns Roman and Etruscan artefacts to Italy
The works had been illegally exported or excavated
Max Mara founder’s art to go on show in posthumous exhibition
A former clothes factory in Italy will house 200 works
One rule for the Getty, another for Italy? Italian group appeals restitution verdict
When it comes to returning antiquities from its own collections, Italy drags its feet
Italian archaeologists arrive in Iran for citadel of Bam restoration project
The Italian government is giving financial assistance in the 2,000 year-old site's repair, after it was badly affected by an earthquake
Getty curator could escape charges on a technicality
Marion True faces charges of conspiring to receive illicitly excavated artefacts
Getty antiquities to be returned to Italy
A joint statement by the Getty and Italian government says 21 pieces will go back
The Marion True trial: continued struggle in the courtroom
Specific artefacts are called into question
Now former Getty antiquities curator Marion True goes on trial this month
Marion True has resigned from the museum and the institution is to return three artefacts to Italy
Benevento rejoices at news of looted missal’s return from the British Library
An investigation by The Art Newspaper led to the request for restitution of the 12th-century prayer book
Italy's attempt at curbing illegal art excavation and trade backfires
Make the citizen your ally if you want to save the nation’s past
Fiat ends sponsorship of exhibitions at Palazzo Grassi
After 17 years and 15 shows, the Italian car manufacturer has withdrawn funding from major kunsthalle in Venice
Italian cathedral submits war-loot claim to British Library
The claim is for a bound 290-folio missal which appears to have disappeared in 1943