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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
Slow progress on restoring war-torn Croatia
Work is underway, but worst hit town Vukovar still 'deserted'
Cavallini discovery reopens superiority debate between Quattrocento Roman and Florentine schools
Will Cavallini or Giotto reign supreme?
Former Christie's director launches online venture eAuctionRoom.com
“We are a technology platform, not an auction house,” said Mark Poltimore in 2000. The onetime auction boss wants to make European sales more accessible to US and UK audiences
Artists lend support to MoMA strike on its 111th day
Over 125 artists signed an open letter to the museum detailing the group’s regret over the museum’s refusal to negotiate with the union
Piero Manzoni “Achrome” a fake
The court was convinced by differences in the artists' technique
Anish Kapoor and David Nash made Academicians of the RA
George Baselitz and Mimmo Paladino have also been honoured
Lloyd Webber pre-Raphaelite export exhortation
The 300 paintings and drawings in the Makins collection include works by Millais, Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Burne-Jones
Ukraine returns war booty to Germany
This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany
