War
Significant art emerged from traumas of the past—will the pandemic prove different?
As the coronavirus crisis stretches on, we look at how artists have captured confinement in recent history and what is being done now
Museum restoration offers rare glimmer of hope in war-torn Yemen
Yemeni authorities and World Monuments Fund team up to repair ruined National Museum in Taiz
France proposes new global fund for endangered heritage sites
The $100m initiative, inspired by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, will be presented at a conference in Abu Dhabi this week
France joins international treaty to protect cultural heritage in war zones
The Second Protocol of the Hague Convention was met with strong resistance from Western military powers when it was adopted in 1999
British artist Idris Khan creates UAE’s first war memorial
This product of the country’s first war stresses the unity of the seven emirates
Ancient Nimrud ziggurat bulldozed by Isil
Islamic extremists razed massive 2,900-year-old Assyrian structure to the ground
Islamic extremist sentenced to nine years in prison for destroying Timbuktu mausoleums
Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi was first to face war crimes trial in The Hague over cultural destruction
Syria before the war: nomads and foundry workers in Berlin photo exhibition
Photographer Mohamad Al Roumi offers a peaceful alternative view of his home country
The stones cry out: on Medieval art in war-torn Syria
The Ayyubid glories of Syria, now mostly in ruins
Berlin’s lost Renaissance sculptures rediscovered in the Pushkin Museum
The 59 sculptures were among treasures seized by Stalin’s “Trophy Brigades” after the Second World War
Baghdad-based Ruya Foundation launches first online database for Iraqi artists
Website will provide a platform for contemporary artists to show—and possibly sell—works
For the record: 18th-century drawings of Palmyra on show in Cologne
Louis-François Cassas documented many of the ancient Syrian city’s buildings, including the Temple of Bel that Isil destroyed last year
Syrian photographer: 'We refuse to die as a number in the international media'
Issa Touma vows to return to Aleppo amid the fighting
Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results
162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder
Artists help refugees build shelters in Calais camp
Anglo-French co-operation to alleviate misery in the Jungle
Italian museums forge ties with Bardo after Tunis attack
The National Museum in Tunis will share loans and exhibitions with Italian institutions
Human rights group raises fears over artists imprisoned in Tunisia
Five men have been sentenced under Law52, the anti-drugs legislation enforced by the country’s former president
Isil threat mounts against Roman site in Libya
Pro-Isil fighters temporarily occupied Sabratha
Pussy Riot among artists behind new charity building shelters in Calais for refugees
Refugee Response Foundation, founded by artist duo The Connor Brothers, is also due to help with legal and living costs
Dutch artist helps Kurds’ grassroots democracy grow
“People’s parliament” built for revolutionaries fighting Isil in northern Syria
Louvre's director draws up 50-point plan in response to Isil's destruction
Jean-Luc Martinez calls for safe havens for antiquities, European centre to combat smuggling and reconstruction fund
Matisse portrait claim rejected by National Gallery
Greta Moll’s heirs argue painting was “misappropriated” in 1947
Looted marble bust returned to Poland
Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of the goddess Diana was taken by the Nazis during the Second World War
British Museum helps ‘prepare for aftermath’ of Isil
Iraqi archaeologists to be trained in reconstruction of heritage sites under scheme funded by £3m government grant
Isil extremists blow up Palmyra's Arch of Triumph
Syrian antiquities head confirms destruction of ancient Roman archway
Getty seeks to preserve memory of Palmyra's Roman ruins through acquisition of rare photography collection
French naval officer Louis Vignes took images of Beirut, Lebanon and Syria in 1864
‘This war is worse than the Mongol invasion’
Unique insight into the destruction at Palmyra from the last US archaeologist to leave the site
A grass-roots biennial for the new Ukraine
The School of Kiev opened against the odds to focus on knowledge rather than art and breathe new life into old institutions