The Art Newspaper speaks to the museum's director Sami Azar about how a more progressive government brought about Iran's increasing acceptance of Western ideas

As well as showing the work of contemporary artists they have a special interest in Andy Warhol and Pop art

Mr Benezra comes to the city's Museum of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago

The Federal Finance Committee aims to stop financial abuses at US museums

Charles Hope is to succeed Nicholas Mann

Published accounts show that in 2000 the Hermitage raised 65% of its budget

Highlights of the collection are starting a world tour with a stop at the Nationalgalerie

The money will be divided between improvements to the original Peggy Guggenheim Collection and a feasibility study for the Foundation’s expansion

The Boijman’s van Beuningen museum wants to return a looted Toorop

A new exhibition looks at works produced by artists while detained by the Nazis

Ossian Ward investigates European and US perspectives and the issues of conservation and ownership

This will assist in the identification of looted artworks

Metropolitan Monet subject to claim

Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover has provided crucial support for many of Britain’s greatest art institutions

While the Fondazione Mazzotta concentrates on how mountainous terrain shaped the family psyche, his associations with Balthus and Cartier-Bresson are made clear in the European Academy's "Friendship: the only land"

Archaeologists descended upon three sites in Southern Iraq rumoured to contain antiquities

A introduction which examines the principles that underlie marketing and public relations and how they are applied

The museum has spent over $250,000 contesting the attempted subpoena of two paintings

At a major conference held on 30 November and 1 December 1999, British Museum, Greek and international scholars discussed the nature of any damage to the Marbles in the hushed-up cleaning of the 1930s. Mary Beard puts the discussions in context and tells how, ever since their acquisition in 1816 by Lord Elgin, the Marbles have aroused fierce debate. Why?

In a heterodox view, the museum leaves behind its linear stylistic categorisations in favour of untidier, more subtle regroupings

British architect David Chipperfield has pacified both conservatives and progressives with his masterplan for the Museum Island which links the museums by underground tunnels

The two institutions already have a strong bond due to many shared exhibitions, and this partnership is set to expand

New director, new direction.

"Nude in the studio" and "Bouquet of flowers" were commandeered by French court officials at the Maastricht fair

The director of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, outlines the possible implications for his museum of the NATO campaign

This marks the first in a series of planned loans of modern and contemporary American works from MoMA to the Hermitage

Industrial strength beer cans at Holly Solomon and post-industrial landscapes at Joseph Rickards