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UK considers how to protect its heritage in the event of war
Thousands of important sites could be marked with metal plaques
Corbis to represent Warhol Foundation’s digital archive
Corbis already represents the archives of Christie’s, Reuters, Condé Nast, and the Ansel Adams Trust
Putin’s unexpected support for archaeologists may be warning to construction industry
He ordered the governor of Novgorod to make builders wait until archaeologists had finished excavating
Iran returns war booty to Kuwait
The works were seized in 1999 in western Iran, near the Turkish border
Chicago unveils its new art park
The $475 million Millennium Park includes a bandshell by Frank Gehry and a massive sculpture by Anish Kapoor
The US finally unveils its Second World War memorial
It has taken almost 60 years to commemorate the 400,000 American soldiers who died in the conflict
Warhol Foundation gives $10 million to artists
The money is being given to Creative Capital, a nonprofit picking up the slack in arts funding
Andy Warhol Authentication Board rejects claims of impropriety concerting Ekstract silk screens
The board acknowledges that the artist “employed assistants”, but says that he “carefully supervised them”
Landslide warning at Macchu Picchu
Geologists have found the land on the steep slope at the back of the fortress is sliding down at a rate of a centimetre a month
Warhol board hits back against The Art Newspaper report
The panel has attracted controversy for refusing to authenticate works attributed by their owners to Warhol
“Curator’s essay traduces my wife’s work” says husband of Lee Bontecou
William Giles stated that an essay by Robert Storr misrepresented Bontecou's work
Santiago Calatrava joins Daniel Libeskind on World Trade Center project
British artists Andy Goldsworthy and Anish Kapoor are to design memorials
Warsaw celebrates its European future by wrapping the Palace of Culture and Science
It will encase its tallest building in gold cloth
The future of Raphael’s "Madonna of the pinks" still hangs in the balance
A lottery grant of £11.5 million may not be enough to keep the painting at the National Gallery
National Gallery reaches out to the underprivileged in bid to save Raphael from export
“The Madonna of the pinks” may have been painted for a nun in Perugia
AIPAD '03 fair report: Art market perseveres in the shadow of a war
Collectors braved the terrorist alerts and bought but at a lower level than in the past
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
Serious threats to England’s historic environment, says official report
English Heritage’s first “State of the Nation” report appeals for tax changes to help save country houses
Anish Kapoor commissioned to produce new work for the Tate's Turbine Hall
The sculptor succeeds Louise Bourgeois and the late Juan Muñoz
The Andy Warhol Foundation joins up with leading licensing agency to develop products for the mass market
The foundation has licensed Warhol imagery for around 13 years
Three new events for New York
Just as social observers are deploring the hectic roster of arts fairs, three new events have been added to the already crowded calendar.
Austria can be sued in the US in claim that it forced Jew to give Klimts after World War II
Austria is not an adequate forum to resolve Nazi loot claim, says California federal court
Dealer Adam Williams on trial for selling Nazi war loot
The work was taken by the Nazis from the Schloss Collection
Hong Kong sales report: imperial wares are top, even the vulgar
While an historic collection of Northern Song letters goes unsold
Destruction of Croatian monuments ruled a war crime
Yugoslav air force guilty of destroying historic monuments in Dubrovnik
Germany’s first federal minister of culture since World War II resigns
The deputy editorship of Die Zeit newspaper and a better pension prove too tempting for Michael Naumann