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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”

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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

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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

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“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

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Santiago Calatrava joins Daniel Libeskind on World Trade Center project

British artists Andy Goldsworthy and Anish Kapoor are to design memorials

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Anish Kapoor commissioned to produce new work for the Tate's Turbine Hall

The sculptor succeeds Louise Bourgeois and the late Juan Muñoz

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Warhol’s Factory for sale

You can own a piece of history for only $7 million

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New director for the Warburg Institute

Charles Hope is to succeed Nicholas Mann

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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.

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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

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Dealer Adam Williams on trial for selling Nazi war loot

The work was taken by the Nazis from the Schloss Collection

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Hong Kong sales report: imperial wares are top, even the vulgar

While an historic collection of Northern Song letters goes unsold

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Destruction of Croatian monuments ruled a war crime

Yugoslav air force guilty of destroying historic monuments in Dubrovnik

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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'

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

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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

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Anish Kapoor and David Nash made Academicians of the RA

George Baselitz and Mimmo Paladino have also been honoured

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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

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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