War & Conflict
Anthem for doomed youth: Exhibition on twelve soldier poets of World War I on at the Imperial War Museum London
Major war artists get a look in too, making this a must see
Koichiro Matsuura dubbed "saviour of Unesco"
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, Matsuura explains his reform of Unesco and the return of the US to membership after nearly 20 years
Archeologists and lawyers are urging the US government to take account of historic sites in Iraq as the military draws up its strategy
Iraq’s history is our history too
Three young photographers who covered the war in Afghanistan talk about their experiences
'I am a photographer and I quite often get sent to photograph wars, I report on the human condition'
American war in Iraq: What a tragic farce
Iraq war poses significant risk to cultural treasures in the region
British Museum Old Master drawings subject to restitution claim
Four drawings are being claimed by the heir of a Nazism victim
The new Imperial War Museum North is a failure—as a museum
Our reporter visits Daniel Libeskind’s latest building in Manchester
German prints and drawings from Friedrich to Baselitz and the Manilow gift of post-war German works on paper go on show in Chicago
The Art Institute attempts to heal old wounds with upcoming exhibitions
"An absolute political priority": Bamiyan Buddhas may be rebuilt
Unesco will convene an international meeting next month to discuss reconstruction
Interview with Willie Doherty on remembering Bloody Sunday—and all the rest
Speaking to the artist who immerses himself in the Northern Irish situation and responds to its shifting sense of reality
When the Cold War was hot: 'The battle for Realism: figurative art in Britain during the Cold War, 1945-60'
The socio-political aspects of the debates about figurative art that raged after World War II are explored in James Hyman's new book
Johnny Eskenazi on the cultural casualties of the Afghan war: An evening with Kalashnikovs and the Begram ivories
In 1996, the art dealer and scholar was taken secretly to the house of a Pakistani politician where he saw one of the greatest treasures from the Kabul Museum
Canadian government asks museum to end self-censorship
“The Lands Within Me: expressions by Canadian artists of Arab origin" postponed following 11 September attacks
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
Boijmans Foundation and Rotterdam museum disagree over war loot issue
The Boijman’s van Beuningen museum wants to return a looted Toorop
Can drawings produced in concentration camps be works of art or are they Holocaust documents?
A new exhibition looks at works produced by artists while detained by the Nazis
Dealer Adam Williams on trial for selling Nazi war loot
The work was taken by the Nazis from the Schloss Collection
Canadian war art on tour
“Battle lines: Canadian artists in the field, 1917-19” is on show now at Canada House
To see or not to see: Parisian exhibition documents the history of war photography
The Museum of Contemporary History provides historical explanations for why war photographers took the pictures that they did
Destruction of Croatian monuments ruled a war crime
Yugoslav air force guilty of destroying historic monuments in Dubrovnik
Books: Documenting war, populism, protest and propaganda
Three books show that the depiction of war in art is as various as other human responses to the phenomenon
Italian embassy in London pursues claim to Benevento missal
The Art Newspaper has tracked down further details of what happened to the twelfth-century manuscript during World War II
Slow progress on restoring war-torn Croatia
Work is underway, but worst hit town Vukovar still 'deserted'
Italian cathedral claims missal in British Library
Change of attitude towards restitution requests may signal changes in UK law
St Catherine's monastery: A short history, from Moses to the Arab-Israeli wars
The incredible longevity of the monastery - or mosque, for a period - can be attributed to its willingness to change with the times
Art and archaeology falls casualty to the Chechen war
The collections of two museums in Grozny have disappeared and the region’s distinctive stone towers are caught in the crossfire
The Museum of Religion in St Petersburg has admitted to having looted items in its possession and is involved in tangled negotiations with the Church
Former atheist goes to confession
Restitution battles rage from Seattle to Paris to Budapest to New Zealand
Matisse Odalisque restored to the Rosenberg family
Art in the media: History as a developing process
Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile
Mahler-Werfel restitution case revived, and put on hold
The council on looted art has postponed its decision on whether to return five paintings in the Oesterreiches Galerie to the granddaughter of Alma Mahler-Werfel