War & Conflict

Unescoarchive

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

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'

Iraqarchive

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

Museumsarchive

The new Imperial War Museum North is a failure—as a museum

Our reporter visits Daniel Libeskind’s latest building in Manchester

Unescoarchive

"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

Booksarchive

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

Looted artarchive

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

Ottawaarchive

Canadian government asks museum to end self-censorship

“The Lands Within Me: expressions by Canadian artists of Arab origin" postponed following 11 September attacks

Newsarchive

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

Museumsarchive

Boijmans Foundation and Rotterdam museum disagree over war loot issue

The Boijman’s van Beuningen museum wants to return a looted Toorop

Holocaustarchive

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

Newsarchive

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

Newsarchive

Destruction of Croatian monuments ruled a war crime

Yugoslav air force guilty of destroying historic monuments in Dubrovnik

Booksarchive

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'

Lootingarchive

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

Looted artarchive

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

Art in the media: History as a developing process

Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile

Lootingarchive

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