US politics
As conservatives switch their sights from art to social issues, are the culture wars over for artists?
The Bush administration and its supporters now have their guns trained on social policy
Congress approves $100,000 for pilot digital project
Digital Promise non-profit will develop electronic education programmes
Are the culture wars over? White House proposes $18m increase to federal arts funding
The boost, which will send "American masterpieces" across the US, comes more than a decade after Congress threatened to abolish the NEA for financing "objectionable" works
Maria Altmann's Holocaust restitution case against Austria will be heard by the US Supreme Court
An American citizen is claiming six Klimts from the Nationalgalerie in Vienna alleged to have been seized from her uncle by the Nazis and then unlawfully retained by Austria after the war
Artists lead anti-war protests as the US prepares to invade Iraq
Polls show the public could not care less what the art world thinks
American war in Iraq: What a tragic farce
Iraq war poses significant risk to cultural treasures in the region
Senator investigates MoMA
The Federal Finance Committee aims to stop financial abuses at US museums
Antiquities dealer Shelby White included in US Cultural Property Advisory Committee: A fox among doves?
Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out
US court returns Steinhardt antiquity to Italy but fails to settle key restitution question
The penalty of lying to customs
Much piety and hot air at Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets
No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected
The smoking dilemma: will Philip Morris's art support outlive its critics?
The tobacco giant remains one of the most important private funders of the arts in the US