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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
Texas war booty charge thrown out of court
Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure
War loot surfaces far from Weimar as Tischbein portrait turns up at Sotheby’s
The consignor of the piece remains unknown
Sarah Raphael wins big art prize
She beat out the highest number of applicants to date for the NatWest prize
War loot funded Quedlinburg GI’s double lifestyle
Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment
Warhol lawyer loses $1.35 million in court ruling
Mr Hayes was told that he was only owed $3.5 million
Global registry of looted art established
A commercial company has logged 34,000 looted objects so far
US indicts war booty sellers
Brother and sister of the US soldier who stole the Quedlinburg treasure to face possible imprisonment
Raphael looks after the arts: The EU's new programme for arts and heritage
While many details are yet to be fine-tuned, it should be ready to protect Europe's cultural treasures by the end of the year
The Warhol estate undervalued, finds court
The judge’s ruling resolves the crux of the legal war between the foundation and the lawyer for Warhol’s estate
Painting captured in police sting is by Raphael, says leading expert
The owner's careless sales technique led the carabinieri right to his doorstep
Embattled Warhol estate fights legal fees
Christie's in the dock over whether Warhol's estate is worth $220 million or $558 million
Bacon joins art greats in illustrating Premier Cru Classé label
From Bacon, to Bacchus
World War II ends for a small town in eastern Germany as treasures are finally returned
Church valuables were dispersed in 1945, reunited in 1992, and return home in 1993
The Uffizi’s “Wounded warrior” is a Greek original
It was previously believed that the statue was a copy
Warhol estate claims artist should not have died
A settlement has been reached in the matter
Anish Kapoor wins Turner Prize
The three other artists on the short list were Ian Davenport, Fiona Rae and Rachel Whiteread
War in Croatia: An open letter in protest of the devastation in Yugoslavia
Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks
Official Soviet circles consider the return to the West of World War II art treasures
Glasnost has unveiled the ill kept secret of thousands of works of art, of archives and libraries taken to the USSR
US returns bell taken as trophy of war to Japan
The temple bell was taken from a Japanese island by American marines at the end of World War II
Maastricht Fine Arts Fair '91: Post-Gulf War optimism, with good paintings’ sales
Thumbs down for the modern and contemporary paintings section
Recession, Maastricht and the Gulf War have taken their toll
Some exhibitions postponed, but a gothic-revival room and a Qi Buddha head for sale
New York art world battles proposed “slap in face” budget cut
The 56% cut means that nearly $25 million stands to be lost from an annual budget of $46.7 million