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News updates suspended in May 2008. (3/23/09)
Why University Museums Matter (2/20/09)
Did Germany Cheat to Get Bust of Nefertiti? (2/20/09)
Ten of the most incredible art heists of the modern era (5/30/08)
Iraq's Babylon bears scars of US-led invasion (5/23/08)
Who owns antiquity? (5/23/08)
US museum lawyers discuss pressing issues (5/23/08)
German gallery tries to block sale of works by Joseph Beuys (5/23/08)
Asian antiquities expert arrested (5/13/08)
Art restorer points own finger (5/13/08)
Cleveland museum to return artifacts to Italy (5/13/08)
Spain launches legal war on US 'pirates' (5/9/08)
Auction of contemporary Chinese art upsets artists who thought works destined for museums (5/8/08)
Resurrecting the Baghdad Museum (5/8/08)
Russian art market shaken as 800 paintings revealed as fakes (5/8/08)
The circle of art - "beautiful paintings should be seen by people" (5/6/08)
Dying dog called a work of art (5/6/08)
You can't have your stuff back (5/6/08)
Bestseller Elizabeth Lowell illuminates the shadowy world of art fraud (5/5/08)
Can the West do more to protect Iraqi antiquities? (5/5/08)
Judgment sought for umpire art (5/5/08)
Online art fraud nets growing number of victims (5/4/08)
Justice at last for L.A. muralist Kent Twitchell (5/4/08)
Iraqi expert accuses West over antiquities trade (5/2/08)
Police seize $100 million in Latin American antiquities (5/2/08)
Authentication lawsuits challenge Basquiat, Boetti estates (5/2/08)
Former teacher passed off fake pots as work of famous artists (5/2/08)
Copper caper: thieves nab art to sell for scrap (5/2/08)
Nazi-plundered Matisse, Seurat in Israel museum have no owners (5/1/08)
Revealed: Royal family of Qatar is buyer of world’s most expensive Hirst (5/1/08)
Artist Kent Twitchell settles suit over mural (5/1/08)
Artists catch head lice for show (5/1/08)
An argument not to return artifacts (5/1/08)
Syria gives Iraq back treasure seized at border (4/30/08)
Chicago sculpture returned, but artist not happy (4/30/08)
Why does the press seem to be rooting for an art-auction crash? (4/30/08)
London's Parliament Square - a public mess? (4/30/08)
Austrian Supreme Court rejects Bloch-Bauer heirs' appeal for sixth Klimt (4/30/08)
Rauschenberg sues artist for selling his trash (4/28/08)
Iraq war thwarts loans to Louvre (4/28/08)
"Gross Clinic" disposals: Why is this "Cowboy Singing"? (4/28/08)
Thinking about The Gross Clinic (4/28/08)
Tamayo’s ‘Trovador’ is again up for sale (4/27/08)
Malevich heirs reach settlement with Stedelijk Museum (4/25/08)
Painted into a corner no longer (4/24/08)
Russian centerpiece in the middle of Sotheby’s dispute (4/24/08)
Philadelphia Museum of Art seals Eakins deal (4/24/08)
Ancient Afghan oil paintings discovered (4/24/08)
Ups and downs of Los Angeles arts funding (4/24/08)
Abortion art, possible hoaxes, and academic freedom (4/23/08)
Yale threatens to ban Shvarts’ art project from show (4/23/08)
Arts institutions feeling impact of ailing economy (4/23/08)
Baghdad culture fights an uphill battle (4/23/08)
London dealer misled by the Art Loss Register forced to return paintings (4/21/08)
The art of authentic forgery - Israel v. Oded Golan et al. (4/21/08)
The needle in the sea - fighting the looters of China's underwater treasure (4/21/08)
Row in UK over resale right grows (4/21/08)
'Due diligence' just a ruse? (4/21/08)
Dispute rages over Austria's looted art (4/21/08)
Art museums still struggle with provenance issues (4/21/08)
An art censored? We think not (4/21/08)
Yale to cancel controversial 'abortion art' exhibit unless student admits it's fiction (4/21/08)
Architects and confidentiality agreements (4/21/08)
Needed: tax breaks for UK art donors (4/21/08)
Pre-Raphaelite painting of Arthur returns - temporarily - to Britain (4/20/08)
An exhibition to die for—literally (4/20/08)
Dealer Salander loses fight to control his family's finances (4/20/08)
Art revealed as fiction at Yale (4/18/08)
Opinion: We should behold the spoils of war (4/18/08)
Guggenheim Bilbao says its finance director embezzled $775,000 (4/18/08)
Graven images: Art in Iraq (4/18/08)
Randolph College and opponents seek bond money after art sale delay (4/17/08)
More on Yale and Peru (4/17/08)
Judge orders escaped art dealer returned to N.J. (4/17/08)
Jeweler Esmerian fights Merrill to stop `reckless' N.Y. auction (4/15/08)
Trash or treasure? Debate rages about Rauschenberg's art (4/15/08)
Exhibition exposes modern tragedy of Babylon (4/15/08)
Prof ensnared in case of Pissarro looted by Nazis (4/14/08)
Daniel Moore case gets its fourth judge (4/14/08)
A menagerie of Matisses? Zoos sell animal art (4/14/08)
Why high art didn't make it on the Vegas strip (4/14/08)
Is Goya masterpiece just a colossal mistake? (4/14/08)
Smuggled cultural relics returned to China (4/13/08)
Curator, artist resign from Scottish arts body over lion sculpture (4/13/08)
Avant-Garde art collection to be split among all 50 states (4/12/08)
Freud painting 'will set record' (4/12/08)
'Missing' fraud art goes on show (4/11/08)
A new study tallies the impact of Illinois’s diminished arts funding (4/11/08)
Guggenheim Vegas to close (4/11/08)
Art museums and federal earmarks (4/10/08)
Japan’s mad cow ban nearly ensnares Hirst artwork (4/9/08)
Sikh armor withdrawn amid protest on $32 million sale (4/9/08)
NYC Arbus photo auction canceled amid lawsuit over earlier sale (4/9/08)
Nude art causes students to lose cash in newspaper-backed contest (4/8/08)
Rothko kin sue to transfer his remains (4/8/08)
David Hockney donates to the Tate and says more artists should do the same (4/8/08)
Show's cancellation a rare case of artists advocating censorship (4/7/08)
Business-like arts a failure, says entrepreneur (4/7/08)
Fisk to appeal order on art collection (4/7/08)
At odds over art (4/7/08)
The firestorm over private museums (4/7/08)
Art or lewd graffiti? Battle looms as Los Angeles gives giant painting the brush off (4/3/08)
Australian art suspect assessed for drug problem (4/3/08)
“A quantum leap” for Australia (4/3/08)
Student files federal lawsuit against art teacher for censoring religious drawing (4/2/08)
France to cut red tape, provide free loans to revive art market (4/2/08)
Postmortem rights of publicity: The federal estate tax consequences of new state-law property rights (4/2/08)
'Drunks' pull off $500,000 artwork heist in Australia (4/1/08)
Purveyors of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia get favorable ruling (4/1/08)
The art of stealing art (3/31/08)
Art casualties from Tibet to Cambodia find an eager market (3/31/08)
British Museum and Africa's stolen artefacts (3/31/08)
Custody battle rages over ancient artifacts (3/31/08)
Time to reconsider title insurance for fine art? (3/31/08)
Day of the remains (3/31/08)
Art and history clash in San Francisco (3/30/08)
Hitler owned painting now in British National Gallery (3/30/08)
Art and the Nazis, times two (3/29/08)
San Francisco Art Institute halts exhibition showing killing of animals (3/29/08)
Courthouse's bold art draws a mixed verdict (3/29/08)
Guardis seized by British police following request from Italy (3/27/08)
Battle of the Black Swan - dispute over sunken ship involves US firm, Spain & Peru (3/26/08)
Looking for owners: exhibition on art stolen in France opens (3/26/08)
Pakistani art collector regains rare paintings (3/26/08)
Austrian minister calls for clarity on 'looted' art allegations (3/26/08)
Finn breaks off Easter Island statue's ear (3/26/08)
African art in European museums should be returned to Africa (3/25/08)
Judge cites man's threatening call for refusing bail in art-fraud case (3/25/08)
Francis Bacon's vulture painting may fetch $70 million in N.Y. (3/25/08)
£254m battle of the Black Swan (3/25/08)
Opponents urge Barnes Foundation judge to reopen move case (3/25/08)
U.S. indicts seven for selling fake Picassos, Warhols (3/24/08)
LA residents protest mural depicting Latino stereotypes (3/24/08)
Deep divide - Ilisu Dam will destroy ancient site of Hasankeyf and flood 200 Kurdish villages (3/23/08)
Raiders of Solo's lost art (3/23/08)
Art forgery operation broken up by FBI and Spanish police (3/21/08)
Outrage at cartoons still tests the Danes (3/21/08)
Philadelphia City Cultural Fund grants arts groups $2.1 million (3/21/08)
Halcyon Gallery sues artist for breach of contract (3/20/08)
Public access v private ownership - in defense of immunity from seizure (3/20/08)
Gardner getting new tips in search for stolen art (3/19/08)
Conference on looted artifacts opens at new Acropolis Museum in Athens (3/19/08)
Insurance for war loot claims (3/19/08)
Whitney Museum to receive $131 million gift (3/19/08)
Animated repatriation: Disney art returns (3/19/08)
Monet, Rodin among masterpieces stolen near Paris, AFP says (3/19/08)
Bogdanos claims antiquities smuggling funds Iraqi extremists (3/18/08)
Art of the steal - the unraveling of the Salander-O’Reilly Gallery (3/17/08)
Frederick Hart sculpture Ex Nihilo - once subject of lawsuit - becomes a ballet (3/17/08)
Akron investor's biblical artifacts being auctioned online (3/17/08)
Artifacts being sold don't include most valuable items (3/17/08)
Clandestine miners arrested for damaging Chinese archaeological site (3/17/08)
US court ruling keeps location of shipwreck treasure secret (3/15/08)
Artist defends video-game exhibit censored by Rensselaer (3/13/08)
Why we like art less when its price goes down (3/13/08)
Dutch restitution committee returns Toorop painting to heirs of German Jew forced by Nazis to sell (3/13/08)
California professor and holocaust expert involved in art restitution controversy (3/13/08)
Robert Rauschenberg sues fellow artist for selling works RR threw in trash (3/13/08)
Dutch establish Cultural Emergency Response fund (3/12/08)
Woman staking a claim to stolen Courbet dies (3/11/08)
Looting continues at archaeology site in Ibb - officials turn blind eye (3/11/08)
Spoils of war in peaceable Sweden (3/11/08)
Vienna's Leopold Museum under fire over looted art allegations (3/11/08)
Curator ferried damaged relics from Baghdad (3/11/08)
O’Keeffe Museum to stand down in battle with Fisk over art collection (3/10/08)
Preserving history - a report on a conference at Cardozo (3/10/08)
Another plan to save Stonehenge falls through (3/7/08)
Who really owns looted art? (3/7/08)
An ancient Apollo statue landed in Cleveland and touched off an international outcry (3/7/08)
Court decision: Fisk can keep Stieglitz collection, subject to no-sale and must-exhibit stipulations (3/7/08)
Museum to show stolen Munch art (3/5/08)
'Collar and Bow' statue draws a suit (3/5/08)
The arts of the campaign trail (3/5/08)
Accusations, depositions: Just more fodder for art (3/4/08)
Inflated art appraisals cost U.S. government untold millions (3/4/08)
Why museums shouldn't offload art (3/4/08)
American files suit demanding German museum return art stolen by Nazis (3/4/08)
Display of alleged Nazi-looted art causes stir in Austria (3/4/08)
The thief and the collector (3/3/08)
Iraq's legacy of looted treasures is revealed (3/3/08)
Ban Chiang controversy called into doubt by early modernist work (3/1/08)
Artist Rauschenberg sues over 'art' taken from his trash (2/29/08)
Untouched by Nazi hands but still perhaps tainted if sale forced (2/28/08)
Massachusetts auctioneer finds Nazi-looted art to be a headache (2/28/08)
Latest damage to antiquities on Temple Mount (2/28/08)
Arizona high school students want museum director disciplined for destroying their diorama (2/28/08)
Auctioneers and dealers slug it out at MoMA (2/27/08)
US-China cooperation urged to stop trade in relics (2/27/08)
Riding to rescue vital record of English medieval knights (2/27/08)
British Museum and army team up in move to rescue Iraq's heritage (2/27/08)
Why "de-accessioning" is a very bad idea (2/27/08)
Tempelsman sculptures return to Italy (2/26/08)
£1.4m art sale to fix leaking roof (2/26/08)
British army to assist at cultural sites in Iraq (2/26/08)
Lawrence Salander seeks job to help his N.Y. gallery (2/26/08)
Thai antiquities in U.S. may be stolen (2/25/08)
Times column exacerbates Yale-Peru negotiations (2/25/08)
Yale & the lost treasure of Machu Picchu (2/24/08)
PBS interview with Italian culture minister (2/24/08)
Plunder goes on tour (2/24/08)
Who owns history? (2/24/08)
Special Master assigned to oversee artist Daniel Moore case (2/23/08)
Modigliani scholar faces trial for fraud (2/23/08)
Was Swiss art theft a kidnapping case? (2/22/08)
Art that vanished in WWII turns up in Massachusetts auction (2/22/08)
Greece promises fall opening for much delayed Acropolis Museum (2/22/08)
Wal-Mart sues Icelandic artist (2/22/08)
The problem with privately funded museums (2/22/08)
Fisk chief says fiscal woes are near end (2/22/08)
Modigliani scholar faces trial for fraud (2/21/08)
The problem with privately funded museums (2/21/08)
Heirs of Curt Glazer react to decision of Basel City Council denying return of Nazi-looted art (2/21/08)
Seven Questions: A Reformed Stolen-Art Dealer Tells All (2/21/08)
Supreme Court of Japan finds Mapplethorpe not obscene (2/20/08)
German treasure hunters claim to have found Amber Room (2/20/08)
Oldest oil paintings found in Afghanistan (2/20/08)
Italian police recover dozens of looted artifacts (2/20/08)
Stolen art on display in a search for owners (2/20/08)
Stolen art found in car park (2/19/08)
New York museum disposes of its star attraction: the Rockefeller rooms (2/19/08)
Court battle over O'Keeffe art starts (2/19/08)
Two stolen paintings recovered in Switzerland (2/19/08)
Art theft and the realities of its perpetrators (2/18/08)
Why is it so easy to steal art in Europe? (2/18/08)
National Endowment for the Arts budget cuts should be met with outrage, not complacency (2/18/08)
Swiss police find paintings stolen in Zurich art heist (2/18/08)
Federal probe of Mingei museum puts focus on disputed pieces in collections (2/18/08)
A rich market for Russian icons, and their counterfeiters (2/17/08)
The art of stealing (2/17/08)
Audit of Miami-Dade's Art in Public Places program reveals missing artwork, poor maintenance, improper procedures (2/17/08)
Gaps in Apollo statue's history make it a focus of debate (2/17/08)
Art of making money: How does a dead fish sell for £12m and who's writing all the cheques? (2/16/08)
Organized crime likely behind Swiss art heist (2/16/08)
US files action to forfeit Basquiat painting worth $8 million (2/15/08)
Reward beats risk for art thieves (2/15/08)
The art of restitution (2/15/08)
Lost but not forgotten (2/15/08)
Missing Basquiat art reappears in NYC (2/15/08)
Shocked Swiss museums reconsider security after major thefts (2/15/08)
Monet painting in Cologne museum found to be forged (2/15/08)
Artist charged with manslaughter over sculpture deaths (2/14/08)
Fisk University in denial (2/14/08)
Art Institute resolves claims for fake Gauguin (2/14/08)
Brown and Putin withdraw their patronage as Russian loan show opens (2/14/08)
China overtakes France as third most important art market (2/14/08)
Danish papers reprint Muhammad cartoon (2/13/08)
List of notable art robberies (2/13/08)
World's greatest art heists (2/13/08)
Bare walls, soft security where art hung (2/13/08)
Thai antiquities resting uneasily (2/13/08)
Stolen art will be hard to sell (2/12/08)
£84m paintings stolen in 'spectacular' Swiss raid (2/12/08)
Frisking Fisk: Parsing O'Keeffe's angry letter, and what should happen next (2/12/08)
At Zurich museum, a theft of 4 masterworks (2/11/08)
The auction of Getty images appears to be stalled (2/11/08)
Russia creates online database of Nazi-looted art (2/11/08)
Judge rules against Fisk University's plan to share its art collection (2/11/08)
Does everyone steal cultural objects or only Europeans? (2/11/08)
How to sell a £26 million artwork in 80 seconds (2/11/08)
Finders, keepers - have too many antiquities been returned? (2/10/08)
Russians reveal hoard of 46,000 art treasures stolen by Nazis (2/7/08)
A Warhol surfaces and is headed for court (2/7/08)
Lawyers suggest process to retrieve art from Salander-O'Reilly (2/7/08)
Final Bush budget proposes slashing public broadcasting, NEA funding (2/7/08)
Lawsuit filed on misuse of artist's name (2/6/08)
Maier Museum trial could be delayed (2/6/08)
White House proposes increase for Smithsonian (2/6/08)
Gallery sues for return of stolen Warhol portrait (2/6/08)
Creative piracy: the paintings of Russell Connor (2/5/08)
Photographs and derivative works (2/5/08)
Christie's, Sotheby's offer record $847 million art (2/5/08)
Plan to boost California's arts budget dies in committee (2/5/08)
Painting at center of ownership fight raises specter of family's Nazi past (2/4/08)
Tax scheme Is blamed for damage to artifacts (2/4/08)
UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara’s prehistoric art (2/3/08)
Swedish museum, family dispute painting (2/3/08)
Artist's widow fights to save husband's work (2/3/08)
NYC artist uses dead animals in art (2/3/08)
A common thief does not obtain ownership of stolen goods, and it is no different when the thieves are the Bolsheviks (2/2/08)
Feds paint picture of art intimidation in Chicago (2/2/08)
Towers risk vandalizing heritage sites across the country, Prince Charles says (2/2/08)
Italy lends the Getty a bounty of Berninis (2/2/08)
Art gallery raided in fraud probe; dozens of works taken from River North shop (2/1/08)
Credit fund SageCrest settles dispute with art gallery lender (2/1/08)
Danish museum to buy Muhammad cartoons which sparked global riots (1/31/08)
Attorney General asks judge to delay Fisk trial (1/31/08)
Art con fake may go back on show (1/30/08)
Philippe de Montebello announces retirement from the Met (1/30/08)
Sotheby's 2008 auction, profit estimates cut by stock analyst (1/30/08)
Does a repatriation request constitute a declaration of war? (1/30/08)
Federal probe of stolen art goes national (1/29/08)
Report details Smithsonian business unit’s problems (1/29/08)
The Russians are right to be nervous if lending stolen art (1/29/08)
Curtain falls on antiques rogue show as last of family forgers convicted (1/28/08)
Italy awaits biggest ever trial of tomb robbers (1/28/08)
Suspect: Saudi collector wanted art (1/28/08)
Salander-O'Reilly fights eviction from $154,000-a-month mansion (1/28/08)
Man in Bowers probe says he did nothing wrong (1/27/08)
Spain's seabed goldmine of treasure ships (1/27/08)
Cypriot tomb raider describes adventures with metal detector (1/27/08)
Art museum scandal grows: tax fraud & artifact looting alleged (1/27/08)
Deceased curator alleged link in smuggling case (1/27/08)
Museum staff called complicit in accepting illicit antiquities (1/27/08)
Russia to return art to Germany (1/27/08)
Now you see it, now you don't - cultural property: past, present and future (1/25/08)
Antiquities forgeries fool art markets (1/25/08)
Four California museums raided in Asian looting probe (1/25/08)
Rescuing ancient citadel offers a beacon of hope for war-torn Iraq (1/25/08)
US national parks being looted as demand for artifacts increases (1/24/08)
MFA sues to bolster claim to disputed 1913 painting (1/24/08)
Bus driver unearths £80,000 hoard of Bronze Age axe heads with metal detector (1/22/08)
Authorities seek shut-down of renowned Sao Paulo art museum (1/22/08)
UK Arts Council cuts are long overdue (1/22/08)
Spoils of war on exhibit at Stockholm museum (1/22/08)
Heirs of Jewish art collectors pursue works sold in Nazi era (1/22/08)
Illegal diggers chipping away at Iraq's heritage at thousands of largely unguarded sites (1/22/08)
Fatimid ewer sells for £220,000 in provincial British auction (1/21/08)
Russian collectors' heirs want compensation for lost art (1/21/08)
Objects without borders (1/21/08)
US and Italian officials seek better collaboration (1/20/08)
Spain's Law of Historical Memory designed to tear down Franco monuments (1/20/08)
Authenticating Warhol (1/20/08)
Miami missing large amount of public art (over $800,000) (1/20/08)
No 1st Amendment rights while viewing constitution at National Archives (1/20/08)
Claude Cassirer and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum spar over Camille Pissarro's Rue Saint-Honore: Afternoon, Rain Effect (1/20/08)
Footprints of Holocaust in battle for art lost to Hungary (1/20/08)
Bold theft at Hyderabad museum located in high-security zone (1/19/08)
Scandal steals spotlight in Greek culture ministry (1/19/08)
Shelby White to return art Italy claims was looted (1/19/08)
Chinese antiquities at Royal Ontario Museum under renewed scrutiny (1/19/08)
Salander, Gallery Agree to Move Art From Homes to Warehouse (1/18/08)
Orange County airport censors artist's work (1/18/08)
Florence considers plan to move David (1/18/08)
Brazil TV chef wanted over art theft (1/15/08)
Court ruling affects status of Nazi-stolen artworks (1/14/08)
Stolen works discovered in Glasgow (1/14/08)
In Spain, a monumental silence (1/14/08)
Repatriation of the Krater (1/13/08)
Legal war looms on arts cash cuts (1/13/08)
Norway increases Munch's `Scream' theft sentences (1/13/08)
Met forms search committee for director (1/13/08)
Russia approves UK art exhibition (1/11/08)
Euphronios' Last Day is Sunday; Italy to Substitute a Jug, Cup and Vase (1/11/08)
The search for successor at the Met (1/11/08)
Anonymous donors find their cover blown (1/11/08)
The Barnes Foundation selects architect for new arts education center (1/11/08)
Stolen paintings returned in Brazil (1/9/08)
Saving Afghanistan's art (1/9/08)
An art donor opts to hold on to his collection (1/8/08)
What is the right rate of capital gains taxation for art? (1/8/08)
New tax could hit UK art collectors (1/8/08)
Stonehenge rescue plan stalls (1/8/08)
Opponents of sale say Randolph College paintings should be returned (1/7/08)
Ott questions friends' lawyer's ability to handle Barnes appeals case (1/7/08)
Art without the artist (1/7/08)
Funding for NEA is enlightened (1/7/08)
Woman artist gets death threats over gay Muslim photos (1/6/08)
Police, art dealer recover 'Fantasia' art (1/6/08)
Stolen bronze statues worth $1 million sold to a junk shop for $4,000 (1/6/08)
Restitution roulette (1/6/08)
Is art an industry or a luxury? (1/4/08)
Czech art group to face trial for controversial award winning project (1/3/08)
Race to save Lascaux cave art, prehistoric 'Sistine Chapel' (1/3/08)
Texas town apologizes for banning nursing mother art (1/3/08)
Samsung accused of $64m art fraud (1/3/08)
U.K. passes Art Immunity Order to clear way for Russian exhibit (12/30/07)
Department of Monumental Copyrights, New York City Division (12/30/07)
Fragments of an antiquities conspiracy? (12/30/07)
Financially ailing black school struggles to sell O'Keeffe art (12/30/07)
Elderly German baroness living in Providence must relinquish painting sold under duress in Nazi Germany (12/29/07)
Supreme Court finds historic document behind filing cabinet (12/29/07)
Egypt to copyright the pyramids and antiquities (12/26/07)
Exhibition back on as law tightened (12/26/07)
Spanish portrait bought by Prince of Liechtenstein detained in UK (12/26/07)
Judge rules N.M. museum will stay in lawsuit over O'Keeffe art (12/26/07)
After legal odyssey, Italy mounts homecoming show for looted antiquities (12/20/07)
Looted art displayed in Rome (12/18/07)
Rare find highlights antiquities fears (12/18/07)
Grand jury to hear art theft case (12/18/07)
Poussin Sacraments to stay on public display at National Gallery (12/16/07)
Hamburg show closes after Chinese warriors prove to be fakes (12/16/07)
Some charges dropped against former curator (12/15/07)
What a "transformative gift" means to the LA County Museum (12/15/07)
Western Australian government's $73 million gift to the arts a shocker (12/15/07)
Legislation to restore benefits of fractional gifts introduced (12/13/07)
Anonymous painting attributed to Caravaggio (12/13/07)
Political deal-making expedites Barnes move to Philly (12/13/07)
Fake warriors 'art crime of decade', say German critics (12/12/07)
Revealed: Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture is fake (12/12/07)
Randolph College taken off accreditation warning (12/12/07)
Canada delays copyright amendment (12/12/07)
The counterfeiters: Inside the world of art forgery (12/10/07)
Sculptor says collector made too many editions (12/10/07)
Two museums go to court over the right to Picassos (12/9/07)
Matter's Pollock paintings still raise questions (12/9/07)
NYCLU represents subway photographer (12/7/07)
… but Lloyd Webber’s picture is ‘not stolen’ (12/7/07)
New tax rules for charitable deductions create hurdles to taxpayer philanthropy (12/7/07)
Fake ROM bomber: ‘I stand behind my artwork and am proud of it’ (12/5/07)
Hirst's interest in stuffed kittens starts legal row (12/5/07)
Museum to pay $2.2m to builder who sued (12/5/07)
Maier art sale opponents win another court victory (12/4/07)
The urge to destroy art (12/4/07)
New York's steep rents may cause exodus of artists, study says (12/4/07)
New NAGPRA proposed rule for human remains (12/3/07)
New legislation on Greek cultural goods (12/3/07)
Pollock cache may have been painted after artist's death (12/3/07)
NY public library under fire for Bush admin photos (12/3/07)
Randolph College withdraws proceeding dealing with selling, sharing art (12/2/07)
Progress seen in talks on antiquities (12/2/07)
Rubens art 'not stolen by Nazis' (11/30/07)
Moscow's historic architecture endangered (11/30/07)
Arts education virtually nonexistent in Philadelphia (11/30/07)
Returning the loot, piece by piece (11/29/07)
Greek court dismisses case against ex-curator (11/28/07)
Australia Parliament on guard against MP art theft (11/28/07)
Israeli artist Yaacov Agam fights the reinstallation of his work at Michigan and Randolph (11/28/07)
Ex-Getty curator wins legal battle in Greece (11/27/07)
Italian city rings alarm bells over 1994 art theft (11/27/07)
Jade sale creates complications for MFA (11/26/07)
Coronation chair and medieval panels damaged by heating in Westminster Abbey (11/26/07)
Bank of America will auction Wyeth paintings to help nonprofits (11/26/07)
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (11/26/07)
National Museum of Iraq to reopen (11/26/07)
Desert art in danger at Egypt's new tourism frontier (11/22/07)
Mixed messages from Banksy's publishers over eBay print fraud (11/22/07)
Lloyd Webber Foundation wins dismissal of Picasso art lawsuit (11/21/07)
Ex-Bellevue Arts Museum official charged (11/21/07)
Painting goes from trash to $1 million treasure (11/21/07)
After Smithsonian loses Oceans gift, board to review donation process (11/21/07)
Ex-Getty curator is now on trial in Greece (11/20/07)
Robert De Niro says gallery stole father's paintings (11/20/07)
What role do museums play at universities? (11/20/07)
Where are all the women artists at MoMA? (11/20/07)
Why creative people are putting their work free on the Net (11/20/07)
Salander, bankrupt gallery, can borrow $630,000, lawyer says (11/19/07)
Statue forger jailed for art con (11/19/07)
Swedish museum says its Andy Warhol Brillo boxes are fakes (11/19/07)
Coin collectors sue state department over import rules (11/19/07)
How garden shed fakers fooled the art world (11/18/07)
Museums solicit dealers’ largess (11/18/07)
Court blocks Va. college's art sale (11/18/07)
Deterrence for art vandals? (11/18/07)
Virginia Supreme Court blocks auction of Randolph College art collection (11/17/07)
Woman convicted of kissing painting (11/17/07)
Nussenzweig v. DiCorcia: Affirmed (11/17/07)
ACLU of WA files lawsuit on behalf of UW art professor (11/16/07)
Warhol 'Liz' painting sells for $23M (11/16/07)
Artwork about art donations raises questions (11/16/07)
Christie's pulls letters from sale after theft claims (11/14/07)
Italy funds restoration through TV telethon (11/14/07)
Judge sets time for payment in Randolph art sale (11/14/07)
Tutankhamun returns in a blaze of publicity - and controversy (11/13/07)
Harvard gets Barnett Newman cache (11/13/07)
MacGregor considers Egypt's Rosetta Stone loan request (11/13/07)
Gehry - construction defects are inevitable (11/13/07)
Archeologists unearth 4,000-year-old temple in Peru (11/12/07)
National library regains stolen 500-year-old maps (11/12/07)
Top security protects vault of priceless gems (11/12/07)
Logic of non-restitution of cultural objects from the musée du quai Branly (11/12/07)
Appeal sought for art bond (11/12/07)
21st century Indian wars (11/10/07)
80,000 Reagan artifacts missing from museum (11/10/07)
Disastrous sale sends Sotheby's shares falling by 37% in one day (11/10/07)
Judge grants injunction to delay sale of Maier paintings (11/9/07)
Van Gogh fails to sell at auction (11/9/07)
Where law meets creative expression (11/9/07)
Pakistan's Heritage at risk (11/9/07)
Charles Saatchi’s art to go on rotating display at Hermitage (11/8/07)
Bankruptcy filing offers Salander temporary reprieve (11/8/07)
MIT sues Frank Gehry over building flaws (11/8/07)
At Sotheby’s art auction, buyers were not impressed (11/8/07)
Brandeis to sell Hassam painting (11/8/07)
U.S. art dealer Eisenberg returns eight antiquities to Italy (11/7/07)
Critical date set for Randolph artworks (11/7/07)
1937 Matisse sells for $33.6 million (11/7/07)
M.I.T. sues Frank Gehry, citing flaws in center he designed (11/7/07)
Art dealer files for bankruptcy, delaying suits against him (11/6/07)
Harvard opts to renovate museums as Allston waits (11/6/07)
Who gives the gift, and who gets the gift? (11/6/07)
Egon Schiele's dream to save Klimt studio close to realisation (11/6/07)
Samarra mosque at risk from new police barracks (11/6/07)
A souvenir of 1945 reveals Hitler's 'mail order' art looting (11/5/07)
Wal-Mart heiress seeks share in Fisk's US modern art collection - court date set (11/5/07)
George Bellows painting may break record for the most expensive piece of American art sold at auction (11/5/07)
Secrets of the auction houses (11/3/07)
Hawaii artist prevails in lawsuit over photo (11/3/07)
Comparing and contrasting the Fisk and Randolph College deaccessionings (11/3/07)
DA's office searches art dealer's New York home (11/2/07)
A rare Turner hits the markets (11/2/07)
National Archives announces discovery of "Hitler albums" documenting looted art (11/2/07)
Calatrava, bridges, and moral rights (10/30/07)
Revised public photography rules in NYC (10/30/07)
Unknown Ramirez trove discovered in California (10/30/07)
Churchill painting to hit the block (10/30/07)
UK museums score art bequest worth over $200m (10/30/07)
The treasure of the oceans: rise of the salvagers (10/29/07)
Supreme Court declines case involving Van Gogh painting (10/29/07)
Big dreams, big expenses: In a lavish town house, an art gallery in trouble (10/29/07)
Seized Elton artwork not indecent (10/28/07)
The art no one sees: a basement that symbolises cultural isolation (10/28/07)
Norton Simon Museum keeps Cranachs—for now (10/28/07)
Returning stolen art: no easy answers (10/27/07)
Daily Show investigates art authentication (10/27/07)
N.J. man arrested in Goya painting theft (10/27/07)
Artist settles with Costco (10/27/07)
Returning stolen art: No easy answers (10/27/07)
Princeton to return disputed art to Italy (10/27/07)
Scientific tools hunt for lost Da Vinci art (10/25/07)
Fisk University hopes to sell O'Keeffe art (10/25/07)
Foes of Randolph College art sale go to court (10/25/07)
Museum director casts doubt on Russian show (10/25/07)
Italian police find extensive, self-excavated private museum in home of pensioner (10/25/07)
France stops Maori mummy's return (10/25/07)
Word of accused art forgers good enough for expert (10/24/07)
Hermitage won't send art to London without guarantee (10/24/07)
Dumped oil painting 'worth $1m' (10/24/07)
Masterpieces from Russia, with some concern (10/24/07)
In defense of Crystal Bridges (10/23/07)
Judge orders inventory of East Side gallery (10/23/07)
Unsuccessful Nazi spoliation claim (10/22/07)
Disputed fragment back on the market (10/22/07)
More on the fractional gifts bill (10/22/07)
Not funny: Indianapolis Museum's padlocked Caravaggio (10/22/07)
Expert questions museum's role in Fisk art sale case (10/21/07)
Fighting for the Barnes (10/21/07)
Judge: Museum can keep Nazi-looted art (10/19/07)
Sotheby's Iznik tiles come from stolen hoard (10/19/07)
Lauder’s openness is sought on artwork (10/19/07)
Gallery padlocked, big show canceled, works impounded pending hearing (10/19/07)
Embattled dealer cancels exhibit as partner removes Caravaggios (10/18/07)
Fractional giving - the tax law changes all (10/18/07)
Rethinking public art (10/18/07)
Controversy over San Antonio arts funding plan (10/18/07)
O’Keeffe Museum asks court to stop art-sharing deal by university in Tennessee (10/17/07)
Spain seizes the Ocean Explorer (10/17/07)
The Barnes morphs into a museum (10/17/07)
Upper East Side gallery shows may be canceled (10/17/07)
Congress to address the fractional gifts mess (10/16/07)
Tangle of deception remains as ex-art dealer faces prison (10/16/07)
Caravaggio to the rescue? A gallery's fate hangs in the balance (10/16/07)
Artist defiantly draws Prophet Mohammed (10/16/07)
After 2,500 years, Parthenon treasures move to new home (10/15/07)
Paris art woes (10/15/07)
Germany, Poland in tussle over treasures (10/15/07)
Tate Modern's crack claims first victims (10/15/07)
Five teenagers charged over attack on Monet painting (10/13/07)
Relief at Arts Council's extra £50m (10/13/07)
Artwork inspired by Banksy is among 16 banned from show by culture minister (10/13/07)
A guilty plea in bacterial art case (10/13/07)
Art heist was a 'flame'-up (10/12/07)
Woman arrested for selling forged Milton Avery painting (10/12/07)
IRS steps up scrutiny on popular tax strategy (10/12/07)
With Altria leaving, Whitney loses branch (10/12/07)
Royal College of Art to sell Francis Bacon (10/12/07)
How Bingham got Yale into trouble (10/10/07)
Russian approves return of stained glass windows taken from Germany (10/10/07)
Greeks go for all the marbles in effort to get back artifacts (10/9/07)
Art slogan mistaken for graffiti (10/9/07)
Foundation to contest decision in Canadian art dispute (10/9/07)
Insurance firm's art fetches $1.5 million (10/8/07)
Christian artist accuses gallery of religious discrimination (10/8/07)
Italy resorts to telethon to protect antiquities (10/8/07)
Vandal punches hole in a Monet in Paris (10/8/07)
As a company leaves town, arts grants follow (10/8/07)
Dead Prince Harry sculpture stirs controversy (10/7/07)
Stolen painting: lawyer among four charged with conspiracy to rob (10/7/07)
Arrests after da Vinci work found (10/6/07)
Will The Hammer bring down the hammer on The Hammer? (10/6/07)
Slap on the wrist for fraudulent antiquities dealer (10/4/07)
US billionaire has donated $55m to preserve global sites (10/4/07)
Fearing indecency laws, radio station broadcasts Ginsberg poem online (10/4/07)
Why in the world can't a portrait gallery' serve a dual purpose? (10/4/07)
What's missing from the Getty/Italy accord (10/4/07)
Italy's presidential palace to host 40 artifacts returned from Getty Museum (10/3/07)
Four pieces of Maier Museum art to be sold (10/2/07)
Palace to house Rostropovich art (10/2/07)
Gallery closes Nan Goldin show per Elton John request (10/2/07)
A southern college to sell prized paintings (10/2/07)
Nazi World War art claim made (10/1/07)
Judge say garden was art, Park District may have to pay artist damages (10/1/07)
Contemporary art prices 'up 55%' (10/1/07)
Storms blamed for Venice's falling masonry (10/1/07)
A painting comes home (or at least a facsimile) (10/1/07)
The week in review included several art disputes (9/30/07)
Irish Museum cleared of Nazi loot claim (9/30/07)
Art first, ethnicity second: Native artists embrace multicultural world (9/30/07)
Public art doesn't always fit (9/30/07)
More trouble for Salander-O’Reilly Gallerie (9/29/07)
Barnes battle continues (9/29/07)
GAO faults Smithsonian upkeep and security (9/29/07)
Indecent innocence (9/29/07)
Picasso thief is put on probation (9/28/07)
Salesman who gets to bring home the Bacon (9/28/07)
Rubens illegally exported to US (9/27/07)
Leonard Lauder’s Klimt landscape belongs to me, says heir of Nazi victim (9/27/07)
An outpost of the arts, secured by a military dictator (9/27/07)
New film depicts trials of artist arrested as bioterrorist (9/27/07)
Conference scheduled in Illinois on contested cultural heritage in a global world (9/27/07)
Of art and theft, Rockwell, MLK and Spielberg (9/27/07)
Eschewing public debate at the Barnes Foundation (9/26/07)
Who owns unfinished art? (9/26/07)
Greater European co-operation urged to prevent art theft (9/26/07)
Heir of Holocaust victim claims Klimt in Lauder collection (9/26/07)
Italy drops civil charges against ex-Getty curato (9/26/07)
Getty Museum reaches accord with Italy over artifacts (9/26/07)
Four heirs of Dutch Jew file claim to artworks (9/26/07)
Having won the first battle, MassMoCA cedes the war (9/26/07)
Unauthorized Banksy prints sold on eBay at inflated prices due to manufactured bidding (9/25/07)
Swiss artist appeals decision to let museum show unfinished work (9/25/07)
Designs solicited, discussion unwanted at the Barnes Foundation (9/24/07)
MIT student's "art" causes panic (9/24/07)
Boaz calls for separation of art and state (9/24/07)
MassMoCA can show artists unfinished installation (9/24/07)
White House To Showcase Lawrence Painting (9/22/07)
Jewish art dealers' heirs claim 227 paintings from the Netherlands (9/21/07)
Russia to send loans to Britain following anti-seizure pledge (9/19/07)
Russian oligarch halts auction to buy complete Rostropovich art collection (9/19/07)
Philadelphia giving art the treatment (9/19/07)
St. Louis Art Museum plans large deaccessioning (9/19/07)
Boston's MFA gets $10 million towards $415 million goal (9/18/07)
It is the death of history as Iraqi historical sites are plundered (9/18/07)
Risks involved in moving art (9/17/07)
Chinese vow to halt sale of emperor's bronze (9/17/07)
First Harvard bell returned to Russian monastery after 77 years (9/17/07)
Film The Rape of Europa opens in US cinemas (9/17/07)
Egyptians upset as Germany rejects loan of Nefertiti bust (9/17/07)
Yale officials agree to return Peruvian artifacts (9/17/07)
Lost Venetian painting is recreated (9/17/07)
Usmanov pays more than $40 million for Rostropovich art (9/17/07)
Aboriginal art under threat (9/16/07)
Cleric rapped for using Nazi term on art (9/16/07)
Is it art yet? And who decides? (9/16/07)
German archbishop denounces some modern art as "degenerate" (9/15/07)
Bounty offered for murder of Swedish cartoonist for cartoon of Prophet Muhammad (9/15/07)
Is it art yet and who decides? MassMoCA & Christoph Büchel (9/14/07)
Forger guest stars at exhibition (9/10/07)
Restitution of Nazi loot still an art (9/10/07)
Peru expands efforts against tomb robbers (9/10/07)
A tangled journey home: artifacts return to Italy and Greece with their histories (9/9/07)
Can donations to the arts be justified? (9/8/07)
Pollock or not? Does it Matter for fair use? (9/6/07)
Christie's discontinues sales of pre-Columbian art (9/6/07)
Sotheby's Hong Kong to auction Chinese relic looted from the Summer Palace (9/6/07)
Art theft ranked as fourth-largest criminal enterprise (9/5/07)
Karachi bids to revive heritage ravaged by extremism (9/5/07)
Black archeology big business in the Caucasus (9/5/07)
Pentecostal doctrine quickening loss of valuable Nigerian artifacts (9/5/07)
Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel medal lost forever (9/5/07)
UVa must explain the mystery of the Morgantina masks (9/5/07)
Recovering masterpieces - the fallout from Nazi art theft (9/5/07)
Should knockoffs be illegal? (9/4/07)
Who should own sunken treasure? (9/4/07)
Control of choreography at issue in lawsuit (9/4/07)
WIPO issues guide for museums on managing intellectual property (9/4/07)
UVa repatriates two ancient Greek sculptures to Sicily (9/3/07)
A cautionary tale for nonprofits from the folks who brought you intermediate sanctions (9/3/07)
Australians upset with portrait of Jesus Bin Laden (9/3/07)
The true value of arts education (9/3/07)
Did Pollock paint them? (9/3/07)
Rhode Islands Plymouth Rock being revived (8/30/07)
UNESCO condemns commercial exploitation of ancient shipwrecks (8/29/07)
A college's art treasure dilemma: to sell or to hold? (8/29/07)
Neighbors sue to keep Barnes from moving (8/29/07)
Court battle over salvaged treasure pits Spain against US firm & mirrors dispute between maritime archaeologists and commercial salvors (8/28/07)
Tourist in Russia stumbles into legal predicament (8/28/07)
Can there be a licit trade in antiquities? (8/27/07)
Disputed Pollocks go on display in Boston (8/27/07)
Excessive compensation triggers investigation of Boston arts center (8/27/07)
When US was copyright outlaw (8/27/07)
Small players pay more at Christie's and Sotheby's (8/27/07)
Update on the Barnes Clash: Should I stay or should I go? (8/27/07)
Judge Denies MASS MoCA's Request To Keep Artists From Making Art (8/27/07)
Israel Museum launches on-line catalog of art and Judaica in its collection looted during WWII (8/27/07)
Elizabeth Taylor will have to defend her ownership of Van Gogh painting in Supreme Court (8/27/07)
New Russian directive will make repatriation of German art more difficult (8/27/07)
Importance of arts to economy of NYC in The Warhol Economy (8/27/07)
Commentary on America's commitment to safeguarding heritage (8/27/07)
Poland rejects call to return German artworks (8/27/07)
Yale agrees to give Peru an inventory of Machu Picchu artifacts (8/27/07)
Will copyright kill the fashion industry? (8/27/07)
Questions of authenticity dog trove of new Pollocks (8/27/07)
American Indians go to court to protect sacred sites (8/27/07)
Stolen by Stalin (8/27/07)
Debate on publication of unprovenanced artifacts (8/27/07)
Impact of booming antiques market (8/27/07)
NYC agrees to rewrite controversial rules on street photography (8/27/07)
US proposes legislation to make Titanic an international maritime memorial site (8/27/07)
Atlanta company becomes sole owner of Titanic artifacts (8/27/07)
Italy drops civil charges against Marion True (8/27/07)
Judge tells Iran to answer questions over terrorist attack in order to keep artifacts (8/27/07)
Lessons from the Getty return (8/27/07)
Germany issues catalog of missing art works in push for return of war booty (8/27/07)
D.C. attorney accuses Smithsonian of fraudulently acquiring work of a renowned Depression-era black artist (8/27/07)
Getty settles with Italy (8/27/07)
One rule for the Getty, another for Italy? (8/27/07)
Malevich lawsuit tests whether American courts remain open to claims for Nazi-looted artworks held by European museums (8/27/07)
US imposes restrictions on importing Cypriot coins (8/24/07)
Warhol Foundation sued for market domination (8/24/07)
Lawyer specializes in recovering stolen art, cultural treasures, historical pieces (8/24/07)
Spielberg sued for painting on FBI's most-wanted stolen works list (8/24/07)
Nazi Art Dealer's Will Disperses Dutch Masters, Expressionists (8/24/07)
Statue as symbol in patrimony tug-of-war (8/12/07)
Sweden’s museum of modern art faces first claim for Nazi-looted art (8/12/07)
Buyer keeps Warhol though dealer had no right to sell (8/12/07)
Prague court sets precedent in restitution battles (8/12/07)
Oman's Arabian Oryx Sanctuary first site ever to be deleted from UNESCO's World Heritage List (8/12/07)
Ethiopia demands return of Magdala loot including remains of Prince Tewodros (7/30/07)
Art imitating art: Bruce museums looks at forgeries (7/30/07)
Masterpiece detectives: inside the investigator’s art (7/30/07)
Art Loss Register now tracking fakes? (7/30/07)
Pissaro lost and found (7/30/07)
Promises and reality in the restitution of Holocaust-era assets (7/30/07)
Stolen artefacts, lost heritage (7/30/07)
Rising Korean art academic star exposed as fraud (7/30/07)
Ice Age cave art site preserved (7/29/07)
Treasures that take place of inheritance tax (7/29/07)
Art meets war in Iraq, and one loses (7/29/07)
The Graffiti Archaeology Project archives writings on walls (7/26/07)
Censorship and Islamicization make the Malaysian artist’s life edgy (7/26/07)
She loved not wisely but too well. (7/25/07)
6,000 suspects in theft of miniature masterpiece (7/10/07)
Swiss hand back stolen statue from Crete (7/10/07)
Getty's new director faces impasse with Italy (7/10/07)
Scrutiny of the bounty: shipwrecks as heritage (7/10/07)
Vienna exhibition of Benin bronzes stirs debate (7/10/07)
Underwater treasure hunting threatening history (7/10/07)
Faking it (7/10/07)
Militants target Iraq's pre-Islamic heritage (7/9/07)
Exciting exhibition in Berlin awakes a plea for the return of stolen treasures (7/9/07)
Strange saga of Steven Spielberg's stolen Russian Rockwell (7/9/07)
Nazi-looted Pissarro in Zurich bank pits heiress against dealer (7/9/07)
Nazi looted painting's found in dealer's Swiss bank safe (7/9/07)
Colombian court rules on billion-dollar shipwreck (7/9/07)
Links of Gardner theft to Boston mob persist in press (7/9/07)
Banksy sculpture is snatched from the garden of 'kidnapper' (7/9/07)
Copyrights That No One Knows About Don’t Help Anyone (6/1/07)
Another victory for Carol Shloss (6/1/07)
Stolen fine art: organized crime's new commodity? (6/1/07)
Pittsburgh to drop unusual 'arts tax' (6/1/07)
ICOM calls for repatriation of cultural properties abroad (6/1/07)
Cooling U.S. market sends tomb raiders abroad (6/1/07)
Invest in shipwrecks and dead bodies (6/1/07)
Peru tries to stop the auctioning of its culture (6/1/07)
Sunken treasure gaining attention (6/1/07)
Sotheby's targets the rich: grows in Moscow, shrinks in London (5/31/07)
Museum Of Modern Art elects new chairman (5/31/07)
Acropolis sculptures to be moved to new home (5/31/07)
Arts pumped $21.2 billion into NYC economy in 2005 (5/31/07)
Hot market tempts colleges and museums to deaccession art for cash (5/31/07)
Virtual museums buddy up online (5/30/07)
Virtual tour might save Chinese cave art (5/30/07)
Problems in securing Philly site for the Barnes (5/30/07)
Art museum in Bellevue, WA, fires chief financial officer for alleged embezzlement (5/29/07)
An impasse in Italian talks over return of artifacts (5/29/07)
Aussie Aboriginal work sets million dollar record (5/29/07)
Picasso drawing called fake, but lawsuit against Duluth dealer real (5/27/07)
Cherished heirloom that vanished from storage and reappeared in a Madrid museum (5/27/07)
Russia halts shipment of satirical art to Dresden (5/26/07)
Danish artist detained in Vienna over anti-Putin posters (5/26/07)
Canadian art sale raises record $22.8-million (5/25/07)
Fighting arts cuts with fun and games (5/25/07)
Büchel's attorney attacks MASS MoCA (5/25/07)
Artist offers own head as replacement for repatriated collection (5/24/07)
Presidential montage falls foul of Moscow customs (5/24/07)
Dispute over Büchel installation heads to court (5/24/07)
Public access group challenges Smithsonian over copyrights (5/23/07)
MASS MoCA to open exhibit sans artist's OK (5/23/07)
Nonprofit arts groups rebound from 9/11 slide (5/23/07)
Christie's in scuffle over looted Byzantine antiquities (5/23/07)
Dispute with artist leads to shrouded exhibit (5/23/07)
Rare Raphael work up for auction (5/22/07)
£1m of Scottish colourists’ art goes up for sale to save castle (5/22/07)
A great idea lives forever. Shouldn’t its copyright? (5/21/07)
Computers may help identify phony art (5/21/07)
Taylor can keep 'looted' Van Gogh (5/21/07)
Indian art student jailed for erotic final-exam project deemed offensive (5/19/07)
Derek Fincham's strategies for regulating international cultural property (5/19/07)
A Warhol or Rothko for $70 million? Why not a Caribbean Island instead? (5/18/07)
Outsider art dealer discovers rare African totems (5/18/07)
A bombshell decision: Marilyn Monroe in the public domain (5/18/07)
Shipwrecked treasure ship yields historic riches (5/18/07)
Public museums getting priced out in quest for art (5/17/07)
A vigorous art sale makes auction history (5/17/07)
Chinese navy dives for golden junk (5/15/07)
Spanish museum said to be exhibiting stolen Egyptian antiquity (5/12/07)
Discovery in Cornwall leading to return of Kenyan totems (5/12/07)
Connecticut museum opens exhibit on fakes and forgeries (5/12/07)
Munch painting stolen by Nazis is returned to Mahler heir (5/12/07)
Artifacts pit American Indians against museums (5/12/07)
European buyers enjoy weak dollar at art auction (5/11/07)
Guggenheim Foundation takes steps to preserve its artistic legacy (5/11/07)
Political artists should get their hands dirty (5/11/07)
Lowry robbery couple tell of knife raid ordeal (5/10/07)
Conference report: How to handle executive pay, donors and the press (5/10/07)
The Renoir wars (5/10/07)
International bidders raise prices at art auction (5/10/07)
The idol thief - Indian antiquities-smuggling ring busted (5/10/07)
The most pressing legal issues facing US museums are ... (5/10/07)
Britain & the Benin bronzes (5/10/07)
Tainted Thyssen dynasty (5/9/07)
King Herod's grave uncovered in hilltop fortress (5/8/07)
Attorney general can join Fisk case (5/8/07)
Mona Lisa's identity revealed? (5/8/07)
Bringing trust back to the Getty (5/7/07)
Lost and not found: India's stolen artefacts (5/7/07)
Uganda: Government to stop sponsoring arts courses (5/7/07)
Sotheby's posts quarterly net, buoyed by London sales (5/7/07)
Marilyn Monroe’s right of publicity in New York (5/7/07)
Natural history museum embarks on $115-million drive (5/7/07)
Supreme Court: rethinking the patent process (5/7/07)
Shelby White in Center Court at the Met (5/6/07)
Picasso work found in Oxfam book (5/6/07)
Nepalese shepherd leads archaeologists to art treasures (5/6/07)
Thugs rob art dealer of £2m worth of Lowrys (5/4/07)
12th century paintings of Buddha found in Nepal (5/4/07)
Marilyn Monroe's death ended rights to her image: court (5/4/07)
Brown's family in lyrics protest (5/4/07)
Is British art being driven in the right direction? (5/4/07)
Sexually explicit art exhibit causes outrage (5/3/07)
Lawsuits compete for returned paintings (5/3/07)
Qatar buys up for its new museum (5/3/07)
$1bn donations put Seattle on the map (5/3/07)
An auction season of high estimates, and even higher risks (5/3/07)
Arts library planned in Brooklyn hits a snag (5/3/07)
Penn State sued over squelched terrorism art exhibit (5/2/07)
Egypt will request loan of artifacts (5/2/07)
It's unlovely but influential. Should it be landmarked? (5/2/07)
Tony Blair's arts legacy (5/2/07)
Shelby White in center court at the Met (5/2/07)
A bank and art museum's marriage of convenience (5/1/07)
Tribal leaders protest Canadian exhibit (5/1/07)
The disturbing history of British Columbia's censhorship (5/1/07)
The fight over funding is about much more than the Olympics. It's arts v sport: the showdown (5/1/07)
The coming arts leadership brain drain (5/1/07)
Why Indianapolis will no longer buy unprovenanced antiquities (4/30/07)
Italy to return ancient statue to Libya (4/30/07)
Long-term leasing for antiquities (4/30/07)
High Museum unlocks 'Gates of Paradise' (4/30/07)
A Colorado arts funding scenario (4/30/07)
Gritty Pittsburgh embraces the arts (4/29/07)
Beaverbrook decision appeal focuses on Cory (4/29/07)
Short list of all-star architects for the Barnes (4/29/07)
From the Barnes, a shortlist of architects (4/29/07)
Cooper-Hewitt is determined to expand, despite a host of critics (4/28/07)
Top Del. court upholds dismissal of forged art lawsuit (4/28/07)
Should endangered antiquities be leased out? (4/28/07)
German manual makes Nazi-looted art claims easier (4/28/07)
Survey says thousands of Nazi-looted art works are held by museums (4/28/07)
Elderly pair face art scam charges (4/27/07)
Statement of Sen. Patrick Leahy, introduction of the Artist-Museum Partnership Act of 2007 (4/27/07)
Museums at war over a flying visit home for Queen Nefertiti (4/27/07)
Fears for Gaudi masterpiece as rail tunnel approved (4/27/07)
Art returning to SoHo wall, with room for commerce (4/26/07)
Panel says NYC historical society can alter landmark building (4/26/07)
Swedish entrance fees deter museumgoers in droves (4/26/07)
Bill encourages artists’ donations (again) (4/26/07)
Nonprofit arts: chasing the fountain of youth (4/26/07)
German institutions urged to do more over art seized by Nazis (4/25/07)
Campaign to save artists' Lake District refuge (4/25/07)
Penn State grad sues over canceled art exhibit (4/25/07)
It's rubbish, but is it art? Bacon's trash sold for almost £1m (4/25/07)
Michael Billington: UK arts cuts are dismal (4/25/07)
Reversal on Renoir: bronzes a fake? (4/24/07)
Munch art thieves jailed in Oslo (4/24/07)
Ming-era Beijing theatre to be bulldozed (4/24/07)
British Museum: No movement on the marbles (4/24/07)
Kimbell reacquires disputed Turner painting (4/24/07)
Italians buy back Fra Angelico masterpiece (4/24/07)
Fun and funds with LACMA's Collectors Committee (4/24/07)
Georgia's rank in funding the arts not a pretty picture (4/24/07)
UK arts leaders turn on Jowell over Olympics (4/24/07)
Canadian painting withdrawn from sale again (4/21/07)
Smithsonian/Small scandal just keeps expanding (4/21/07)
Restitution follies: As the Turner turns...and returns (4/21/07)
India steps up antiquities scrutiny (4/21/07)
Hermitage and Kremlin look to the Gulf (4/19/07)
Future of Brussels house with Klimt mural still uncertain (4/19/07)
Art purchases advance Getty's ambitions (4/19/07)
Calgary ponies up cash for arts facilities (4/19/07)
Graffiti figure admired as artist now faces vandalism charges (4/19/07)
Stolen Chihuly glass art found in Florida lot in poor condition (4/18/07)
Attorney General steps deeper into Fisk art case (4/18/07)
Art fund investors file suit (4/18/07)
New cultural commissioner for Los Angeles (4/18/07)
Government-backed company claims all Nazi loot from museums (4/18/07)
Animal rights or artistic freedom? (4/17/07)
Will Elgin marbles ever make it back to Athens? (4/17/07)
Canadian arts deserve support, Ottawa told (4/17/07)
John Tusa: UK arts policy is inept (4/17/07)
Town fathers refuse permission to reproduce Spirit of '76 in for-profit book (4/17/07)
The changing landscape of the art market (4/16/07)
The Walton Museum Collects - an Eakins this time (4/16/07)
Idle copyright threats can be expensive: Joyce estate settles with professor, may owe fees (4/16/07)
Israeli institutions vie for looted art (4/15/07)
Police search for stolen Faberge eggs (4/15/07)
Restored 'Gates of Paradise' head to the U.S. (4/15/07)
Tehran's standoff with west sees tourists snub Persian treasures (4/15/07)
Queen Nefertiti's bust is too fragile to visit Egypt, German minister says (4/15/07)
On the wealthy, their taxes (and culture) (4/14/07)
U.S. tax deductions for donations to foreign museums - the other side (4/14/07)
French tycoon wins battle for Venice's modern art gem (4/14/07)
Art thieves hit Chihuly exhibit (4/14/07)
Ownership dispute over William Scott works (4/13/07)
Deal or no deal? Can large art deals be sealed with a handshake? (4/13/07)
The impermanent collection: deaccessioning (4/13/07)
Philadelphia school sells a second Eakins (4/13/07)
Controversial animal art exhibit still at risk (4/11/07)
Andy Warhols lift Christie's contemporary art sale to record $300 million (4/11/07)
OSCE diplomat accused of smuggling (4/11/07)
Once hated, now feted - Chinese artists come out from behind the wall (4/11/07)
In Ohio, math and science squeezing out the arts (4/10/07)
Tajik president calls for return of treasure from British Museum (4/10/07)
What to do with monuments in Iraq? (4/10/07)
Tennessee AG halts sale of Fisk University O'Keeffe painting as undervalued (4/9/07)
Buying Kandinsky, Man Ray for $110: Katharine Kuh's last laugh (4/9/07)
State Street gives Boston's African-American Museum $1 million to expand (4/9/07)
Animal lovers take on Vancouver art show (4/9/07)
An archive of despair: Saad Eskander works to protect Iraq Library from bombs and mold (4/9/07)
Charges for Milwaukee man who vandalized painting by kicking (4/8/07)
Arts supremo attacks Brown over funding (4/8/07)
Andy Warhol's `Green Burning Car' may fetch record $35 million (4/8/07)
Is the U.S. protecting foreign artifacts? Don’t ask (4/8/07)
Abu Dhabi to spend over $480m building a national collection (4/7/07)
Germans call for return of paintings seized by British troops (4/7/07)
Fisk can get better deal, art pros say (4/7/07)
Muslim artist garners praise and protest depicting Hindu deities (4/7/07)
Herb Ritts money, art to MFA (4/6/07)
Pinault bid for Venice site beats Guggenheim's incomplete pitch (4/6/07)
The new (anonymous) subversive public art (4/6/07)
Man damages Old Master painting at Milwaukee Art Museum (4/5/07)
Canadian PM cancels $49m of museum funding (4/5/07)
Dispute intensifies over possible Pollock paintings (4/5/07)
Urinal finds museum home (4/5/07)
It's all very well building extensions to our galleries, but is there enough good art to put in them? (4/5/07)
Detroit Institute of Arts keeps disputed Van Gogh (4/4/07)
Smithsonian scrambles to regain its footing (4/4/07)
Elton John concerts raise concern about damage to St. Mark's Square (4/4/07)
Verdicts announced in Munch appeals (4/3/07)
Cleveland Museum is buyer of rare $4.07 million granite Shiva (4/3/07)
Getty sets conservation standards in China (4/3/07)
Provenance still unclear, possible Pollocks have been sold (4/3/07)
Picasso's party piece sold (4/2/07)
Art student's Obama piece causes stir (4/2/07)
Cleveland museum loans masterpieces to new showcase (4/2/07)
Michigan arts groups find their grants frozen (4/2/07)
Public art, plagiarism & vernacular (4/2/07)
Statues by chain saw artist found dumped in woods (4/1/07)
Greece talks tough on Parthenon marbles (3/31/07)
Catholic fury at chocolate Jesus (3/31/07)
Seattle Art Museum gets massive donations (3/31/07)
Enthusiastic group of art collectors lures dealers to Dubai (3/31/07)
Getty returns ancient wreath to Greece (3/31/07)
Portugese billionaire goes on art shopping spree (3/30/07)
Rethinking the museum online (3/30/07)
Jefferson University: could sell two more by Eakins, but nothing else (3/29/07)
Artist vs. Massachusetts MoCA (3/29/07)
What ails the Smithsonian (3/29/07)
Need cash for arts? Move to Montreal (3/29/07)
Difficulties of the one-collector museum (3/28/07)
Appeal against Da Vinci Code author dismissed (3/28/07)
ABA program on collecting Chinese art and antiquities (3/28/07)
Stolen Artworks and the Lawyers Who Reclaim Them (3/28/07)
Smugglers target the ancient treasures of Yemen (3/28/07)
Tycoon orders university to return his ‘magic’ artefacts (3/28/07)
Museums: A Special New York Times Section (3/28/07)
Smithsonian head resigns after unflattering report from inspector general (3/28/07)
Rescued Bacon items to go on sale (3/22/07)
Officials ponder how to save art after gallery roof collapse (3/22/07)
Art in the garbage may signal stealth criticism (3/22/07)
High hopes for a Rothko painting at auction (3/22/07)
Major Canadian projects do without -- for now (3/22/07)
Getty carefully packs funerary wreath for trip back home to Greece (3/21/07)
Smithsonian art museums have reached a "critical point” (3/21/07)
Albright-Knox post mortem: A complete defeat (3/20/07)
Thieves run off with $2-million gold bar at Japanese museum (3/20/07)
Leonardo lands safely in Tokyo (3/20/07)
Pakistan's ancient ruins fast disappearing (3/20/07)
India faces growth in antiquities thefts (3/20/07)
Retired BLM special agent battles her former agency to protect archaeological sites (3/20/07)
Do you know where that art has been? (3/18/07)
$11 million in damages confirmed for art expert whose opinion was maliciously attacked in court (3/18/07)
Weighing up losses to Iraq's heritage (3/18/07)
Russia displays looted German treasure (3/15/07)
Judge to rule Friday on bid to block sale of antiquities (3/15/07)
Buffalo’s pain: Giving up old art to gain new (3/15/07)
Robert MacNeil and the cudgel of culture (3/14/07)
Congress holds first hearing on arts funding in 12 years (3/14/07)
Donor intent in Fortune (3/14/07)
Da Vinci work crated for loan despite Italian protests (3/13/07)
Arts Advocates Ask for 40 Percent Government Funding Increase (3/13/07)
Brady proposes a 1% solution for city arts funding (3/13/07)
Philadelphia Art Museum (part of it) packs up (3/11/07)
Getty appoints panel to determine whether Italy should get "Goddess" (3/11/07)
Boston landmark could face the wrecking ball (3/8/07)
Re-examining deaccessioning at the Albright (3/8/07)
Couple charged in major TV art scam (3/8/07)
Netherlands buys back Nazi-looted paintings returned to heirs (3/8/07)
Fighting for Iraq's culture (3/8/07)
Abu Dhabi Deal: Louvre's "brand" worth $520 million (3/8/07)
Sevso hoard larger than supposed (3/6/07)
US confirms its position as the leading art market (3/6/07)
Big corporate gift expected for Los Angeles County Museum of Art (3/6/07)
Controversy surrounds a Christie's auction (3/6/07)
World heritage sites to get protection from high rise and TV dishes (3/6/07)
Blair hails arts renaissance and backs state funding (3/6/07)
A new debate over who owns the past is underway (3/5/07)
Details of $924 million Louvre-Abu Dhabi agreement; signing due tuesday (3/5/07)
Shadows of doubt loom over Pollock-style works (3/4/07)
The Vaux mineral collection may be the latest 'deaccession' (3/4/07)
Promises vs. progress at Fisk University (3/4/07)
"The mural is gone, it's not supposed to be gone, and someone will pay" (3/4/07)
Novice art collectors find access is priceless (3/4/07)
Turner masterpiece to stay in UK (3/2/07)
County commissioners seek legal advice to stop Barnes move (3/2/07)
Two paintings by Picasso are stolen in Paris (3/1/07)
Defacer with mystery agenda is attacking street art (3/1/07)
Group asks Gonzales to review Small's conduct (3/1/07)
Why should artists be agents for the government? (3/1/07)
Picasso paintings worth $66 million stolen from painter's grand-daughter (2/28/07)
Tate Modern sued after woman 'broke hand' on slide (2/28/07)
Smithsonian's spending draws Congress' attention (2/28/07)
Court returns stolen art to owner (2/28/07)
Will arts be sacrificed on London's Olympic altar? (2/28/07)
Fisk not only school faced with selling art (2/27/07)
Picture the future: Museums expand as art prices soar (2/27/07)
An example of mob ties to art theft (2/27/07)
Gone today, here tomorrow? Portion of destroyed 'Ed Ruscha Monument' is revealed, but next steps are unclear (2/27/07)
Oslo art thieves snatch cash-laden canvas (2/26/07)
Aboriginal artists paid in drugs, Australians hear (2/26/07)
Tourist invasion threatens to ruin glories of Angkor Wat (2/26/07)
Christie's buys an art gallery (2/26/07)
When chemistry meets culture: Scientists helping save rare art (2/25/07)
Tibetan exhibition draws criticism (2/25/07)
Could the “Greenland example” help resolve the Parthenon Marbles dispute? (2/25/07)
Berlin museums chief attacks Louvre for Abu Dhabi venture (2/23/07)
Storm-damaged sculpture banished in Miami (2/23/07)
Censorship: Still a burning issue (2/23/07)
Gallery leader defends right to sell art (2/23/07)
History vs. homogeneity in New Orleans housing fight (2/23/07)
Recovered artworks heading to auction (2/22/07)
Scottish war museum takes a hit (2/22/07)
Pittsburgh backs formula for taxing of nonprofit organizations (2/22/07)
Albertans open up their wallets for arts (2/22/07)
The new ABC of the arts (2/22/07)
When should coins stop circulating in commerce? (2/22/07)
Lawyers for heirs recovering Nazi-looted art due for major payday (2/22/07)
Anthropologists back Native American claims in case of Spirit Cave Man (2/21/07)
Appeals in Munch theft begin (2/21/07)
Notes on the Arts Appropriation Symposium (2/21/07)
Arts organizations adjust to decline in funding (2/21/07)
"While artists are alive, their decision whether to exhibit work or not should be respected" (2/20/07)
"Scream" theft decoy? (a crime story) (2/20/07)
Dia appoints a new director (2/20/07)
Giola's pitch for the arts has kept NEA alive (2/20/07)
BC's McMullen Museum of Art courts controversy with 'Pollock Matters' (2/19/07)
Unplanned 'offspring' at Olympic Sculpture Park get SAM's blessing (2/19/07)
Arts Council England's mumbo-jumbo policy (2/19/07)
Stonehenges all around us (2/19/07)
Installation withdrawn from retrospective, then sold at auction (2/18/07)
Who owns the descriptions in auction catalogs? Copyright lawsuit looms (2/18/07)
Fisk and the O'Keeffe Museum make a deal (2/18/07)
Donors sweetened director’s pay at MoMA (2/18/07)
Louvre curators condemn “collections for rent” schemes (2/16/07)
Fisk University strikes deal on paintings (2/16/07)
Missing Cézanne to go on display (2/16/07)
Britain's hidden art (2/16/07)
Ottawa arts in for a funding increase? (2/16/07)
Louvre backs down on ancient statue in Cleveland (2/15/07)
The Thinker in rehab (2/15/07)
Lawsuit over Schiele drawing has legs (2/15/07)
U.S. group wants Canada blacklisted over piracy (2/15/07)
Lawyer charged with keeping dead client's stolen artwork (2/14/07)
Art dealer sues over Picasso (2/14/07)
Paints’ mysteries challenge protectors of modern art (2/14/07)
One year later, Golden Mosque is still in ruins (2/14/07)
Decision in the Joyce "copyright misuse" case (2/13/07)
Grand Canyon Skywalk opens deep divide (2/13/07)
Canadian artists, entertainment companies battle over copyright law (2/13/07)
A week of art sales records (yikes!) (2/13/07)
Italy increases arts spending by 17% (2/13/07)
Bacon portrait sold for £14m (2/11/07)
What they keep for love (2/11/07)
Guns and drugs found in home of lawyer-artist who hid art from Bakwin theft for three decades (2/11/07)
Appeal in case of Elizabeth Taylor's Van Gogh begins (2/11/07)
New Hampshire artists colony in tax battle with town (2/10/07)
Police on alert as 300 graffiti artists gather in Boston (2/10/07)
Copyright protection a $819 billion business (2/8/07)
Art stoush exaggerated: expert (2/8/07)
Record price for Banksy bomb art (2/8/07)
Arts circles unstrung over 'The Cello Player' sale (2/8/07)
Olympic construction unearths ancient treasure trove (2/8/07)
Champion of Brazilian art sentenced to prison (2/8/07)
Insurance case shakes up art market (2/8/07)
No renvoi in Iran v. Berend (2/7/07)
Why look at the art when you can shoot it instead? (2/7/07)
Sotheby's £94.9m art sale breaks European record (2/7/07)
Apple’s chief calls for end to music copy protection (2/7/07)
Ancient temples face modern assault (2/7/07)
Cultural agencies see boost from Bush budget (2/7/07)
Cuts looming for UK museums (2/6/07)
Mysteries surround rare statue returned to Pakistan (2/6/07)
Cash boost plan for Scotland's artistic hopefuls (2/5/07)
Laughing all the way to the Banksy (2/5/07)
One Eakins for another (2/5/07)
Afghanistan being 'systematically looted' warns museum organization (2/5/07)
You’ve seen the e-mail, now buy the art (2/5/07)
Archaeologists issue Joint Statement of Principle on the Protection of Archaeological Sites, Monuments and Museums (2/4/07)
A Pollock, in the eyes of art and science (2/3/07)
Saatchi, Lauder to raise cash at $809 million London auctions (2/3/07)
Two buildings, once stripped of landmark status, regain it (2/3/07)
French widow who bought in 1974 at auction in New York a fragment of the palace at Persepolis is rightful owner under French law & may sell item in London (2/3/07)
To fund 'Clinic,' a 2d Eakins sold (2/2/07)
From Monet to Banksy: richest art sale could net £200m (2/2/07)
Arts groups seek plums in a new budget pie (2/2/07)
What will a western art influx do for Abu Dhabi? (2/2/07)
Owner rejects analysis of unsubstantiated Pollocks (2/1/07)
Culture cuts hurt everyone (2/1/07)
Artist arrested for planting marketing figures mistaken for bombs (1/31/07)
Italian police arrest 52 people in `tomb raider' smuggling case (1/31/07)
Vast settlement of huts linked to Stonehenge (1/31/07)
Athens protest seeks return of Elgin marbles (1/31/07)
Aboriginal art 'made in China' (1/30/07)
Christie's increases buyers' commissions as auction sales rise (1/30/07)
Philadelphia museum accuses former president of fraud (1/30/07)
Harvard study casts more doubt on disputed Pollock paintings (1/30/07)
Christchurch artist expects controversy over paintings (1/29/07)
Olympic Sculpture Park: It's not a hands-on experience (1/29/07)
MO governor looks past lawsuit to fund arts (1/29/07)
Utah may divert arts tax revenue (1/29/07)
Algeria to protect archaeological heritage from looting (1/28/07)
China’s cultural relics safe from Olympic construction (1/28/07)
Revealed: how eBay sellers fix auctions (1/28/07)
Thieves steal Banksy's art ... and the wall, too (1/28/07)
Art thieves, look out (1/27/07)
Brooke Astor's son probed over art sale, people say (1/26/07)
Some pieces of church silver don’t go gently to the auction block (1/26/07)
Klimt on the bubble (1/26/07)
Italy recovers rare marbles (1/26/07)
U.S. & Bolivia extend agreement on cultural property protection (1/25/07)
An artful dilemma - should Israeli museums grant immunity from seizure for works borrowed from abroad? (1/25/07)
U.S. ex-pilot fights Berlin museum for Nazi-looted poster hoard (1/25/07)
Art looted by Nazis handed back to Czech family (1/25/07)
Rijksmuseum in negotiations to buy £40m Rembrandt from private British collection (1/25/07)
Marc Spiegler on Steve Wynn's insurance claim for his damaged Picasso - with complete complaint and policy (1/25/07)
Bloomberg and council change arts financing (1/25/07)
Seaport museum alleges former president misused funds (1/24/07)
German Jew tries to get art Nazis took (1/24/07)
UK gallery to return looted art (1/24/07)
Greek warning over London auction (1/24/07)
Tate in £5m race to save Turner's 'Blue Rigi' for the nation (1/23/07)
Spanish art historians rename Tintoretto based on research (1/23/07)
Christie's auction of Greek royal family heirlooms to go ahead (1/23/07)
Scotland's Roman wall aims high (1/23/07)
Hermitage employee walked out with tsarist treasures (1/23/07)
Investors finding joy in art appreciation (1/22/07)
Protesters demand rock art explanation (1/22/07)
The art of saving art (1/22/07)
Public appeal for Turner painting (1/22/07)
Diplomatic licence: An unpublished report claims that antiquities are being smuggled by embassy staff (1/21/07)
Rodin’s thieves were after bronze (1/21/07)
Sotheby's raises commissions to buyers as auction sales boom (1/20/07)
How to smuggle art out of Afganistan (1/19/07)
'Unsung heroes of heritage' extolled for unearthing hoard of treasure (1/19/07)
Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid? (1/19/07)
Art market: Cashing in or selling out? (1/18/07)
Antiques dealer sues to bar homeless from sidewalk (1/18/07)
Rodin's `Thinker,' statues stolen from Dutch museum (1/18/07)
Casting blame for looting in trial of Getty ex-curator (1/18/07)
Italy asks Cleveland museum to return works (1/18/07)
Please may we have our Swastika picture back? (1/17/07)
Tate's anti-war display crosses legal line into no-protest zone (1/17/07)
Casino magnate Wynn pokes Lloyd's over damaged Picasso offer (1/17/07)
Preservation commission turns down proposal for Upper East Side tower (1/17/07)
Can museums play in today's art market? (1/16/07)
Can researchers crack real life da Vinci mystery? (1/16/07)
Is Japan the new front in Italy's antiquities war? (1/16/07)
Secret payouts worth millions for art lost in warehouse fire (1/15/07)
Museums: why it pays to go green (1/15/07)
No increase to California Arts Council in governor's 2007-08 state budget (1/15/07)
Loans of art treasures to economic giants cause apoplexy in the salons of France (1/14/07)
Art theft perfect crime for our time (1/14/07)
Church sign a billboard? No, it's art (1/14/07)
How Christie's kept top spot over Sotheby's in 2006 sales (1/14/07)
Lloyd's sued on payout for hurt Picasso (1/13/07)
London art sales may raise $793 million for Lauder, collectors (1/13/07)
Abu Dhabi is to gain a Louvre of its own (1/13/07)
Italy to ask Japan for return of 'looted' antiques (1/12/07)
Picassos’ theft contributes to mystery of eccentric collector’s art trove (1/12/07)
In the company of Eakins (1/12/07)
Emir of Kuwait gives €5m to the Louvre (1/11/07)
Bail set in Greece for ex-curator of Getty (1/11/07)
Duking it out over Duccio in Columbia Magazine (1/11/07)
A Gauguin will stay at the Toledo Museum of Art (1/11/07)
Paintings by the pound (1/10/07)
Restoring a mud-brick tribute to a departed Egyptian king (1/10/07)
Lost: The looting of Iraq’s antiquities (1/10/07)
Tobacco firm will slash its arts funding (1/10/07)
Sonic fingerprints safeguard art (1/10/07)
Can a painting really be so connected to the cultural life of a city that it should never move? (1/9/07)
Sale of Chinese porcelain from the Hodroff collection (1/9/07)
Judge rejects claim to Gauguin painting in Toledo Museum of Art (1/9/07)
The Getty's troubled goddess (1/9/07)
Art and taxes around the world (1/9/07)
Monument to the planet suffers a hard fall to Earth (1/8/07)
When does art require a zoning code? (1/8/07)
What constitutes equal access? (1/8/07)
How do you "own" a performance? (1/8/07)
The Gross Clinic on view at the Philadelphia Art Museum (1/7/07)
Backstory: Adoption for art lovers (1/7/07)
Egypt leaps into the antiquities recovery game (1/7/07)
Revealed: Nazi painting in London’s Maritime Museum looted by British (1/7/07)
Connecticut town says large-scale lawn art requires 'certificate of appropriateness' (1/6/07)
This no-name tagger is an urban-art guerilla (1/6/07)
Graffiti artist's uninvited quest (1/6/07)
Whitney Museum could lose major funder following corporate breakup (1/4/07)
Thieves beware: museum curators are after you (1/4/07)
New DVD copy protection will allow burning (1/4/07)
MoMA to gain exhibition space by selling adjacent lot for $125 million (1/4/07)
£94m Acropolis museum reveals ancient treasures (1/4/07)
Sotheby's U.S. auctions rise 52% to $1.8 billion (1/2/07)
Art prices are rising, and so are the risks (1/2/07)
France frets as Louvre looks overseas (1/2/07)
Sale of historic homes privatizes history (1/1/07)
On the trail of pilfered history (1/1/07)
Interview with Italy's antiquities prosecutor Maurizio Fiorilli (1/1/07)
Art, science,and connoisseurship (1/1/07)
Sydney artist anxious to see damaged works (12/31/06)
Tomb-raiding tradition thriving in West Bank (12/31/06)
Art market is hotter than ever (12/29/06)
Hermitage woes (12/29/06)
A family scene Rockwell wouldn’t have painted (12/29/06)
A tempest when art becomes surveillance (12/28/06)
Battle to save celebrated cradle of cutting edge art (12/28/06)
Thieves steal valuable art for scrap metal (12/27/06)
Rome’s new vigilance for its buried treasure (12/27/06)
'Gross Clinic' highlights art's place in city's life (12/24/06)
The year in mural destruction (12/24/06)
Restless museums, repatriated art, record sales (12/24/06)
National Gallery must now buy a Guercino promised as a bequest by Sir Denis Mahon (12/24/06)
Stolen 'Scream' was damaged (12/23/06)
Rebrand us, every one (12/23/06)
Eakins painting to stay in Philly (12/22/06)
On-line auctions: a new venue for the antiquities market (12/22/06)
Refusal to put rock art on heritage list condemned (12/22/06)
Putting the 'art' in party (12/22/06)
Communist leader presented with picture stolen from Hermitage (12/22/06)
Italy Digs in Its Heels in Artifacts Dispute With the Getty (12/21/06)
Book spurs Congressional resolution honoring Monuments Men (12/21/06)
Mayor drops new 'Gross Clinic' status (12/21/06)
Canada signals major shift In museum funding (12/21/06)
Scotland's £1.2m funding puts everyone in the frame for a bit of culture (12/21/06)
Christie's modern-art auctions rose 82% in 2006, fueling growth (12/20/06)
Public art meets public surveillance in Chicago (12/20/06)
Can city protect art treasures? (12/20/06)
Temptations of the art fair (12/19/06)
Court says eBay can sell scalped tickets (12/19/06)
To sketch a thief (12/19/06)
G.I. Joes to the rescue of Rembrandts and Raphaels (12/19/06)
Children of Nazis lose art payout (12/18/06)
Prince of Liechtenstein buys historic British collection (12/18/06)
How a manuscript found in an Irish peat bog was saved (12/18/06)
Why you cannot trust dealers’ prices—or auction results either (12/18/06)
Saatchi creates an online hangout for artists (12/18/06)
South Africa's art heritage shame (12/17/06)
Art or eyesore? A new city ordinance wants graffiti artists to can it – even on private property (12/17/06)
Creative differences flare over the South Bank's future (12/17/06)
Troubled Ulster Museum given record Lottery cash grant (12/17/06)
Sotheby's auction sales surge 36% to $3.4 billion on art boom (12/16/06)
Genealogists discover identity of enigmatic Upper East Side collector (12/16/06)
A fight to keep an Eakins is waged on two fronts: Money and civic pride (12/16/06)
Thieves make off with Bizet's bust in series of cemetery raids (12/15/06)
African Nok culture faces serious threats (12/15/06)
Iraq challenges German auction of Sumerian artefacts (12/15/06)
Italy busts art trafficking ring (12/14/06)
German court rejects return of art to Nazi's family (12/14/06)
Keep artists away from their own work (12/14/06)
Sotheby’s to sell 22 Getty paintings (12/14/06)
Is Hirst-the-collector killing Hirst-the-artist? (12/14/06)
Afghan buddhas may rise again (12/14/06)
Last hurrah for street art, as canvas goes condo (12/13/06)
One woman's passion: the $33m Tom Thumb islands (12/13/06)
New security breach at theft-hit Russia museum (12/13/06)
Preserving memory of Afghanistan's giant Buddhas (12/13/06)
Prices soar at Art Basel Miami, with sales up to $400 million (12/12/06)
Greeks hail Getty Museum’s pledge to return treasures (12/12/06)
Flood of ideas on Boston Harbor (12/12/06)
Getty returns more antiquities to Greece to end row (12/12/06)
Churchill painting goes for record sum (12/11/06)
The man museums love to hate (12/11/06)
Speed-reducing public art in Cambridge (12/11/06)
Getty to return gold wreath to Greece (12/11/06)
Backlash over return of looted art (12/10/06)
Loyalism laid bare (12/10/06)
Rare Churchill painting for sale (12/9/06)
Tate leads fight to reform law after masterpieces slip through the net (12/9/06)
Second dispute arises for Davis art dealer (12/9/06)
Title insurance for art (12/8/06)
Could this be a lost masterpiece? (12/8/06)
British musicians join call to extend music copyright (12/8/06)
Kennedy Center's Kaiser aims to xxpand U.S. cultural exchanges (12/8/06)
Beer, Santa, and commercial speech (12/7/06)
Maine puts Santa Claus on 'naughty' list, sparking freedom of speech showdown (12/7/06)
Boston's $41 million art museum brings the harbor light inside (12/7/06)
Tate seeks £5m to keep Turner's pale view of hills in Britain (12/7/06)
Works to treasure - or sell? (12/6/06)
In New York, taking years off the old, famous faces adorning City Hall (12/6/06)
From ruins of Afghan buddhas, a history grows (12/6/06)
Ottawa museums get boost of nearly $100M (12/5/06)
Russian boom is the genuine article in art sales (12/5/06)
Mysteries about Hermitage art thefts still swirl (12/5/06)
Ex-head of Art Institute of Chicago takes over Getty (12/5/06)
The case of Pollock’s fractals focuses on physics (12/4/06)
'Hidden' Rockwell sold for £7.9m (12/4/06)
Welcoming an arts landmark in Boston (12/4/06)
Suspect in theft of Munch paintings dies (12/2/06)
With economics in mind, New York City takes aim at movie piracy (12/2/06)
Late Rembrandt may fetch £14m (12/1/06)
Philadelphia can afford to relinquish 'The Gross Clinic' (12/1/06)
Dutch display looted art still not restituted (12/1/06)
'Art cop' Robert Volpe dead at 63 (12/1/06)
The Nazi bounty hunters (11/30/06)
V&A Museum to scrap academic reproduction fees (11/30/06)
'The Gross Clinic' campaign reaches one-third of goal (11/30/06)
Getty tells its side (11/30/06)
Top collector is asked to relinquish artifacts (11/29/06)
Italy lends antiquities to 2 museums (11/29/06)
London police install first exhibition of fake and forged art works (11/27/06)
Mullahs to destroy Iranian heritage site of "Persepolis" (11/27/06)
Yale's stolen Lewis Carroll letter surfaces on eBay (11/27/06)
Early sketch of Stonehenge found (11/27/06)
Roman Abramovich funds London exhibition (11/27/06)
German museums move closer to reunification (11/27/06)
A layered look reveals ancient Greek texts (11/27/06)
Revealed: National Gallery’s Cranach is war loot (11/26/06)
Will democrats ride to museums' rescue? (11/26/06)
Italy expresses dismay with Getty’s stand on disputed art (11/26/06)
With authorities distracted, Bedouins rob tombs much as forefathers did (11/24/06)
Inside the art thief's mind (11/24/06)
Gagosian in controversial $54m Giacometti deal (11/23/06)
Exiled antiquities returned to Afghanistan (11/23/06)
The end of (getting away with) plagarism (11/23/06)
Collectors lose round in battle over Rodin art (11/22/06)
Forged Iraq art used to fund terrorism (11/22/06)
Getty returning art believed looted (11/22/06)
Greek authorities to pursue felony charges against former Getty antiquities curator (11/22/06)
Louvre and Guggenheim in art war (11/22/06)
Philadelphia mayor hopes to prevent sale of Eakins' masterpiece as 'historic object' under preservation ordinance (11/22/06)
Getty Museum ceases talks with Italy over antiquities (11/22/06)
Germany aims for better restitution process for Nazi-looted art (11/21/06)
Hey, what's the bright idea? (11/21/06)
FBI recovers 228-year-old Goya painting (11/21/06)
Restoring a Wright: Buffalo resurrects its architectural heritage (11/21/06)
In the recent election, Americans cast a vote for the arts (11/21/06)
A call for higher standards for arts boards (11/21/06)
Deep-fried flags too hot for museum in army town (11/19/06)
Goya theft is attributed to inside knowledge (11/19/06)
Contemporary-art auctions conclude with a whimper (11/19/06)
Christie’s may sue over Blue Period Picasso (11/18/06)
The Barnes bill (11/18/06)
Landmark De Kooning crowns collection (11/18/06)
Warhol auction sets fresh record (11/18/06)
More trouble for the MacLaren (11/16/06)
The art of pricing great art (11/16/06)
$15m sale beats Bacon art record (11/16/06)
The mystery of the $140 million Pollock sale (11/16/06)
Met won’t show a Grosz at center of a dispute (11/15/06)
Phoenix Ancient Art scrutinized (11/14/06)
Stolen artifacts shatter ancient Indian culture (11/14/06)
Copycat paintings concern artists (11/14/06)
Munch print fetches $1.27 million at auction, beating Picasso (11/14/06)
Sports artist sued for mix of crimson and tide (11/14/06)
Nazi loot a goldmine for auction houses (11/14/06)
Goya painting stolen while on way to Guggenheim exhibition (11/14/06)
Critics denounce Portrait Museum's "appalling" acquisition (11/13/06)
Swede gives back Acropolis marble (11/13/06)
Italy clears project to stop Venice from flooding (11/13/06)
British ministers move to stop crime memoirs from paying (11/13/06)
Indian casinos team up with local arts organizations, and both profit from the arrangement (11/13/06)
An exuberant but highly perplexing market (11/11/06)
News Corp.'s Fox Film Unit faces suit over `Borat' (11/11/06)
Getty ex-curator says antiquities trade 'corrupt,' art smuggled (11/11/06)
Eakins masterwork is to be sold to museums (11/11/06)
Stroke of luck as Queen's art resurfaces (11/10/06)
U.S. casino mogul says damaged Picasso art work being repaired (11/10/06)
Despite court ruling, Christie’s pulls painting from auction (11/10/06)
Could be a Pollock; must be a yarn (11/10/06)
Cleveland cigarette tax for arts, culture approved (11/10/06)
Family gets back looted Munch masterpiece after 53-year battle (11/9/06)
“What is publicly owned is not publicly accessible” (11/9/06)
$491 million sale shatters art auction record (11/9/06)
Italy has regained many stolen antiquities, but its talks with the Getty stall (11/9/06)
Artifact Amnesty draws collectors and curious (11/9/06)
The auction house, the fashion designer, and the £78,000 refund (11/8/06)
Cézanne brings the top price at auction (11/8/06)
Lloyd Webber art auction back on (11/8/06)
FCC: Foul language on TV OK -- sometimes (11/8/06)
Max Ernst painting reported stolen from Art Cologne, police say (11/7/06)
Photographer's lawsuit claims hula image stolen (11/7/06)
Preservationists in Chicago fear losing ground to condos (11/7/06)
Chlorine may be darkening Pompeiian frescoes (11/7/06)
How do you get world heritage status? With neat lawns and tidy paperwork (11/7/06)
Hate a building? Ask the Tories to knock it down (11/6/06)
Christie's stop sale of Bulgarian silver treasure (11/6/06)
Row over Italian toilet artwork (11/6/06)
Jackson Pollock for $5 - true or false? (11/6/06)
The case for public arts funding (11/6/06)
Russian customs agents confiscate photographs mocking Presidents Putin and Bush and question British dealer (11/5/06)
Rule no. 1: Don’t yell, ‘My kid could do that’ (11/5/06)
FBI may use billboards in art hunt (11/4/06)
Who knew about the Barnes secret budget item? Who kept it quiet? (11/3/06)
Law could hang up donations of artworks (11/3/06)
Row over Tate's stolen Turners (11/3/06)
Koons - finally - successfully defends a copyright suit (11/2/06)
A Pollock is sold, possibly for a record price (11/2/06)
Big prices, big risks at fall art auctions (11/2/06)
Beaverbrook gallery hearing stunned by file tampering claim (11/2/06)
The future of Iraq's past (11/2/06)
Art thieves turn to looting Italy's churches (11/1/06)
Federal trademark dilution law overhauled (11/1/06)
Neue Galerie to auction Schieles to pay for Klimt (10/31/06)
V&A considers leasing paintings (10/31/06)
Iraq in watercolor (10/30/06)
Dispute arises over (possibly) historic novel (10/30/06)
Austria launches looted art database at long last (10/30/06)
Authenticity becomes nuclear science (10/30/06)
Italy finds Getty deal unacceptable (10/30/06)
Cartoons in Harvard newspaper similar to several featured on prominent cartoon blog (10/30/06)
Painter's suit said his works were sold as those of abstract master (10/24/06)
Artwork saved her from death in Holocaust (10/22/06)
Attackers pillage Moscow art gallery and beat activist owner (10/22/06)
New Zealand Maoris furious over plans for a themed apartment complex in Texas (10/21/06)
Harvard reclaims paintings missing for 30-plus years (10/21/06)
An eccentric’s art collection now seems ill-gotten (10/20/06)
Canadian university gets back Nazi loot (10/20/06)
English town evicts beach art (10/20/06)
Acropolis museum ready to open (10/20/06)
Tycoon Steve Wynn rips £75m Picasso (10/19/06)
Brooklyn art house is ruled hazardous (10/19/06)
Lichtenstein: creator or copycat? (10/18/06)
Austria launches looted art database (10/18/06)
U.S. delays rule on limits to Chinese art imports (10/18/06)
Complaint filed over cadaver show (10/18/06)
Coin dealer trial rocks Ohio Republicans (10/17/06)
Former top financial officer at Milwaukee Public Museum charged with criminal misconduct for helping run museum into debt (10/17/06)
Did Pennsylvania fund a new Barnes before it got permission to move? (10/17/06)
Archaeologists alarmed - Roman treasure goes on display (10/17/06)
One of Florence’s Renaissance prizes to go on U.S. tour (10/17/06)
Fear of reprisal by religious fanatics raises questions about freedom of expression (10/17/06)
Hunt for Greek icon peers into black market of religious plunder (10/16/06)
London auctions show contemporary art prices may be stalling (10/16/06)
Mrs. Astor’s son to give up control of her estate (10/16/06)
Tough campaign for a play about Iraq war (10/16/06)
Database takes a bite out of stolen-art market (10/15/06)
Nice work… if you can get it (10/15/06)
Art advisers (10/15/06)
Ship's bell, symbol of German-Polish tension, returns to Poland (10/14/06)
Paul McCartney bids to trademark his name (10/14/06)
Gerlach suggests tax penalties to stop Barnes move (10/14/06)
Rescue of unwanted art or interference with right to destroy? (10/13/06)
Italy will contest Medea vase at Cleveland Museum (10/11/06)
Broad buys Koons egg for $3.5 million as London sales start (10/11/06)
Police arrest gang blamed for art and antiques thefts at stately homes (10/11/06)
Google seen inheriting YouTube's legal challenges (10/11/06)
Forgery claims hit Hirst auction (10/10/06)
Texas teacher sacked in row over gallery nudes (10/10/06)
Did the Getty get off easy? (10/10/06)
King papers, back in Atlanta, will be placed on display (10/10/06)
Loss database one answer to art thievery (10/9/06)
'Every day there's a new gallery': how Tate and Frieze fuel London art boom (10/9/06)
Harvard messes with a masterpiece (10/9/06)
Treasures looted by Rome 'are back in the Holy Land' (10/8/06)
Ford weathervane brings $5.8 million, breaking auction record (10/8/06)
Lauder raises $190m cash as Bloch-Bauer Klimts come up for sale (10/8/06)
Radical solution proposed for Stonehenge (10/8/06)
Assessment of Heritage theft fallout (10/6/06)
Gallery scraps art, fearing Muslim rage (10/6/06)
Mexico calls on churches to catalogue sacred art (10/6/06)
Lauder raises $190m cash as Bloch-Bauer Klimts come up for sale (10/6/06)
The Polish supermarket fights the wrecker (10/5/06)
Boston's new ICA won't make early Nov. opening (10/5/06)
Native art fight comes to a head (10/5/06)
Idea theft implied contract claims: No agreement, no breach (10/4/06)
Netted: agreement to control sale of antiquities on eBay (10/4/06)
Hermitage art thefts roil Russia (10/4/06)
New Acropolis Museum in Athens will reopen debate about returning Parthenon Marbles (10/4/06)
Looters rob Mexican churches of colonial treasures (10/4/06)
Afghan art restorers trained in Italy (10/3/06)
California AG issues report on Getty's lavish spending (10/2/06)
Infringement is everywhere: Congress addresses 'orphaned works' (10/2/06)
Should art be sold to ignorant buyers? (10/2/06)
Is LA the new American art capital? (10/2/06)
Are we living in a golden age of art? (10/2/06)
Film piracy 'costs economy $20bn' (10/1/06)
First, inject formaldehyde; then, restore an artwork (10/1/06)
S.Africa hunts for lost apartheid-era black art (10/1/06)
Judge rules against native artist in Thow case (9/30/06)
Masked raiders plunder Lowry art from gallery (9/30/06)
British Library issues manifesto on intellectual property (9/29/06)
Wanted: a home for Botero’s paintings of Abu Ghraib (9/29/06)
Boston's MFA returns 13 ancient works to Italy (9/29/06)
Walker says new tax provision will discourage major museum gifts (9/29/06)
Can Ron Lauder buy a great museum with one painting? (9/29/06)
Brighton art returned, but mystery far from over (9/28/06)
Tate and Scottish museums plan to share a trove of contemporary art (9/28/06)
Hitler paintings reap $223,000, lure foreign buyers to Cornwall (9/28/06)
V&A turns down Bill Gates loan over 'draconian' restrictions (9/27/06)
On the trail of the Russian fakes (9/27/06)
Munch's masterpieces back on show (9/27/06)
High-res 3D scan helps scientists uncover Mona Lisa's secrets (9/27/06)
Lawsuit threatens to take ancient Iranian tablets from Chicago's Oriental Institute to compensate terrorist victims (9/26/06)
Stuff happens again in Baghdad (9/26/06)
Major error is reported in tax paid by Mrs. Astor on sale of painting (9/26/06)
Art smuggler offers Italy mystery masterpiece X to end trial (9/26/06)
UK music archive in decay warning (9/26/06)
Pirate radio challenges feds (9/26/06)
White House loot anchors fight over sunken bounty (9/25/06)
Bulgaria fights to save golden past from curse of the gangsters (9/25/06)
Tracer of the lost art (9/25/06)
Art attributed to Adolf Hitler goes on sale in Britain tomorrow (9/25/06)
An oracle of modernism in ancient Rome (9/25/06)
Indian art piece sold for $1,360,000 in New York (9/24/06)
Francis Bacon painting may set record at Sotheby's N.Y. auction (9/23/06)
Turner painting under export ban (9/23/06)
Artist sues over copyright of Wall Street's bull (9/22/06)
Ancient art Italy wants back from Boston's MFA (9/22/06)
Top novelist acquitted of defamation charge in Turkey (9/22/06)
Networks say indecency policy imperils live TV (9/22/06)
Indian artists comment on a booming economy while helping to fuel it (9/21/06)
Censored artwork hits the road (9/21/06)
UNESCO Mission reports on war damage to cultural heritage in Lebanon (9/21/06)
Art broker says Axl Rose still owes (9/21/06)
Indian art works fetch record amount at Christie's (9/21/06)
Interpol, Brazil announce partnership to fight theft of art pieces (9/20/06)
New group to keep tabs on public art in Cincinnati (9/20/06)
$10m donor to MFA drops his anonymity in effort to inspire more donors (9/20/06)
Bill Gates’ Leonardo notebook withdrawn from exhibition (9/20/06)
Brothers sentenced in British art forgery case (9/19/06)
Bombs shatter Lebanon's Roman legacy (9/19/06)
Klimts go to market; Museums hold their breath (9/19/06)
YouTube in 'landmark' music deal (9/19/06)
Banksy's painted elephant is illegal, say officials (9/18/06)
TLS reviews antiquities smuggler's attack on heritage crusade (9/18/06)
Tate discloses the prices it paid for recent art acquisitions (9/18/06)
The art dealer at the right time, right place (9/18/06)
Free speech suit against Park City dismissed, though artist may refile (9/17/06)
Animal activists upset about painted pachyderm in LA art exhibit (9/17/06)
The art of the new (9/17/06)
A new movement in public art (9/16/06)
Four returned Klimt works heading to auction (9/16/06)
Painting at core of Astor family feud (9/16/06)
Italy wants ancient art back from Boston MFA (9/15/06)
Court decision could make it more difficult to recover artwork (9/15/06)
Christie’s takes lead in buoyant market (9/15/06)
The implications of art fund collections shown in museums (9/15/06)
Seattle art museum to publish a list of the art it sloughs off (9/15/06)
State Museum returns statue to Kenya 20 years after theft (9/14/06)
Aboriginal rock art under threat, report (9/14/06)
Man fined for damaging his home for art (9/14/06)
Briton charged over 'insult' to Turkish PM (9/14/06)
Chinese Tibetologists, Belgian sinologists discuss preservation of Tibetan art (9/13/06)
Montreal foundation trying to get back art work looted by Nazis (9/13/06)
$1 million gift swings open doors of BMA (9/13/06)
Museums fear tax law changes on some donations (9/13/06)
New shadows are cast over Iraq's pre-Islamic art (9/12/06)
Museum to exhibit damaged Munch paintings (9/12/06)
Nazi-looted art claimed by Montreal estate spirited out of U.S. (9/12/06)
Loss of artwork human error, museum says (9/11/06)
Australian indigenous art dealer code will 'lead the world' (9/11/06)
Museums worry new law will discourage donations (9/10/06)
SC museum sells land with Indian relics (9/10/06)
Museum fights sale of iconic O’Keeffe artwork (9/10/06)
New concern over fate of Iraqi antiquities (9/10/06)
Artwork lost to Nazis at center of legal battle (9/10/06)
Spanish museum to fight court ruling (9/9/06)
Museum to appeal ruling on Pisarro work (9/8/06)
Basques will not recoup Guggenheim investments until 2010 (9/8/06)
Pompidou admits human error caused works of art to fall from wall (9/8/06)
Austrian jailed for museum theft (9/8/06)
Losing the copyright wars (9/8/06)
World's most expensive bottle claimed fake as renowned collector sued (9/7/06)
Pressure Russia to reveal looted art’s heritage (9/7/06)
Fragment of the Parthenon is sent back to Greece (9/7/06)
Canadian artists demand license fees (9/7/06)
James Frey and his publisher settle suit over memoir lies (9/7/06)
Fractional gifts to museums on the way out? (9/6/06)
Astor painting becomes focus of courtroom battle (9/6/06)
Artist told to remove Rabbi Jesus paintings (9/6/06)
'The Scream' is back, but 170,000 other art treasures missing (9/6/06)
New charity to start plan for $50,000 artists’ grants (9/6/06)
Furious evolution debate hits Kenyan museum (9/4/06)
Christ art gone, but controversy remains (9/4/06)
Thieves destroy history to loot valuable artifacts (9/4/06)
Lebanon's ruins survive recent bombings (9/4/06)
World's oldest rock art loses out to mine projects (9/3/06)
Hirst says art prices will keep rising on demand from the rich (9/3/06)
Whither the dealer in art's new landscape? (9/3/06)
Will the Louvre follow the Guggenheim to Abu Dhabi? (9/2/06)
US - Cyprus extend bilateral agreement protecting Byzantine treasures (9/2/06)
China cracks down on tomb raiders (9/2/06)
Britain's Channel 4 investigates theft of Afghan antiquities since the fall of Taliban (9/2/06)
Suit filed to block Whitney expansion (9/2/06)
Recovered Munch paintings lead to improved prison conditions (9/2/06)
Rude awakening for Russia's museums (9/2/06)
Peruvian official arrested for selling historic manuscripts (9/2/06)
De Young museum's mysterious donor of looted pre-Columbian murals (9/2/06)
House holds hearings on repatriation of Holocaust art assets (9/1/06)
Norwegian police recover Munch masterpieces 'The Scream' and 'Madonna' (9/1/06)
Wildenstein sold Gauguin at “inflated price,” court told (8/31/06)
Microsoft tackles anti-copy hole (8/31/06)
World War II art may raise $5.7 million at Christie's auction (8/31/06)
History claims her artwork, but she wants it back (8/31/06)
Painter said to be focus of FBI probe (8/30/06)
Ancient Arctic rock carvings need protection, experts say (8/30/06)
Shoppers threaten to topple father of Russian literature (8/30/06)
Public inquiry to examine plan for visitor centre at Stonehenge (8/30/06)
Battle rages over Kirchner picture returned to heir (8/29/06)
Canada gets court order against Sotheby's for price conspiracy (8/29/06)
It's time to engage with Islamic art on its own terms - not as a bridge (8/29/06)
Berliners spar over return of Kirchner painting as vote nears (8/28/06)
Director of Baghdad museum resigns, citing political threat (8/28/06)
Fresh start in lost Leonardo quest (8/28/06)
Does legal art lead to illegal graffiti? (8/26/06)
Art forgeries are on the rise, testing dealers, detectives (8/26/06)
Iraq’s top cultural official resigns (8/26/06)
First Circuit decides VARA does not apply to site-specific art (8/24/06)
Art thief flushed out by chat in loo (8/23/06)
Russian art theft is tip of the iceberg (8/23/06)
Met offered replica of Euphronios krater (8/22/06)
Former smuggler now assists Scotland Yard (8/22/06)
European Court of Human Rights to hear appeal on Turkish dam that will inundate historic city (8/22/06)
New York Times criticized for not probing provenance (8/22/06)
Harvard to receive 'Jack the Ripper' collection (8/21/06)
Canada returns Nazi-looted painting to French family (8/21/06)
Damaged-art claims rise at overcrowded museums (8/21/06)
Japan's new landmark law raises ethical standard (8/21/06)
Mona Lisa of Peru recovered in artful dodge (8/21/06)
Art forger turns legit (8/21/06)
Masterpiece insurance: protecting your art (8/20/06)
The inside job at Russia's Hermitage (8/20/06)
Vandals Target £35m Scotish museum (8/20/06)
Ex-Getty chairman returns money for unwritten book (8/19/06)
U.S. film rating system is targeted in new documentary (8/18/06)
Is technologically assisted art really art at all? (8/18/06)
Claims of anti-Semitism fuel city arts-fund feud (8/18/06)
Hermitage museum workers decry 'witch hunt' (8/17/06)
College argues for the right to sell art gifts to raise capital (8/17/06)
How a historic painting emerged from £50 fake (8/17/06)
A threat to artists and the internet (8/17/06)
In Peterborough, N.H., the battle over what is art (8/17/06)
Iranian museum displays Holocaust cartoons (8/16/06)
Big thefts of art have New York on the lookout (8/16/06)
Taking stock of Cyprus's stolen past (8/16/06)
Plundered art creates quandary (8/16/06)
German art lovers angered by painting's 'surrender' (8/16/06)
Israel-Hezbollah war endangers archaeological sites, ecosystems (8/15/06)
Hermitage curator sold art works for medicine: husband (8/15/06)
Tighter airline security is jeopardizing orchestra tours (8/15/06)
Turkey's new delights (8/15/06)
Possible ringleader in Hermitage theft detained (8/14/06)
Graphic agitation (8/14/06)
Police: Hermitage curator offered art (8/13/06)
Fixing the tax code in favor of art (8/12/06)
Pollock summer art mystery (8/11/06)
Hitler landscapes go under hammer at Cornish auction house (8/11/06)
Putin orders massive arts audit (8/11/06)
Museums establish guidelines for treatment of sacred objects (8/10/06)
Spencer Tunick to create largest ever nude installation in Mexico City (8/10/06)
Russian state archive is also hit by thievery (8/10/06)
Is copying a crime? Well… (8/10/06)
Hirst in legal battle over "spoof" website (8/9/06)
Air-rights money may benefit NYC theatre community (8/9/06)
Is the world wide web art's final frontier? (8/9/06)
China turns out mummified bodies for displays (8/8/06)
Hermitage thefts expose Russia's lax museum security (8/8/06)
Sotheby's Ruprecht discusses dividend, growth and rivalry (8/8/06)
Museum-quality art: Handle with care (8/8/06)
Dispute over book filming sparks debate (8/7/06)
Artist Twitchell sues over the disappearance of his 'Ruscha' (8/7/06)
£10m Van Gogh portrait not by him, say experts (8/7/06)
Two arrested in thefts at Hermitage, reports say (8/7/06)
Returned Klimts to be sold at Christie’s (8/7/06)
Court battle for stolen artefact (8/6/06)
Returned painting heads for auction (8/6/06)
A brush with the law: Selling fake paintings on eBay (8/6/06)
Boston's ICA sees weeks-long construction delay (8/6/06)
Chihuly settles copyright lawsuit (8/6/06)
Heirs sell off Nazi acquired art (8/4/06)
City of London finds the arts pay dividends (8/4/06)
Art Commission doesn't like site near museum for 'Rocky' (8/4/06)
Russian police find artifact stolen from Hermitage (8/4/06)
At Paris exhibit, L.A. art is a smash -- literally (8/3/06)
Christie's to sell Kirchner painting for as much as $25 million (8/3/06)
Art as an ambassador for insights into Islam (8/3/06)
How illegal file-sharers give themselves away (8/3/06)
Hempfest organizers sue over Seattle festival site (8/2/06)
Creative financing for struggling artists (8/2/06)
Hermitage is reeling from loss of artworks (8/2/06)
Restored, an emperor’s lair will be forbidden no more (8/2/06)
Staff suspected over missing Hermitage treasures (8/2/06)
Russia's Hermitage art museum hit by mystery thieves (8/1/06)
PBS ready to stand and fight FCC (8/1/06)
Have the arts become an afterthought at Ground Zero? (8/1/06)
Getty posts the big numbers (8/1/06)
The ICA: Three little letters (8/1/06)
Web collections pose question: What is a museum? (7/31/06)
In Beirut, cultural life is another war casualty (7/31/06)
Branding as countercultural creativity (7/31/06)
Public funding for evangelical rappers draws ire in London (7/30/06)
Icon stands out, despite talk of clashing symbols (7/30/06)
Art dealer hid ownership of Gauguin, inflated price, suit says (7/29/06)
Berlin returns Kirchner street-scene painting to Jewish heirs (7/29/06)
Holocaust art recovery goal still eludes advocacy groups (7/29/06)
Does sport climbing diminsh cultural value of Twin Sisters? (7/28/06)
Looted statue of Entemena recovered by US for Iraq (7/28/06)
MFA agrees to return disputed art to Italy (7/28/06)
Australia's unique solution to illegal copying (7/28/06)
Kazaa site becomes legal service (7/28/06)
Gandhi not convinced she ought to be in pictures (7/28/06)
Lawyer is upping the ante in claims of idea theft in Hollywood (7/28/06)
Curator, know thy collection! (7/28/06)
Are American museums serious about ownership of their art? (7/27/06)
Sumerian statue looted from Iraq found by U.S. investigators (7/27/06)
Bog discovery hailed as Ireland's Dead Sea scrolls (7/27/06)
Da Vinci Code book banned in Iran (7/27/06)
Blaze victim sues police for thwarting art rescue (7/27/06)
Christie's tops list in French auction sales for first half (7/26/06)
Why Tate Modern needs to be bigger (7/26/06)
Judge says book on Cuba must stay (7/26/06)
Standing up to the MPAA (7/26/06)
Bad summer for L.A. murals (7/25/06)
Fighting in northern Israel may harm biblical sites (7/25/06)
Explorer, state square off over shipwreck (7/25/06)
Three charged with smuggling pre-Columbian artifacts into US (7/25/06)
People stop fighting Philadelphia City Hall (7/25/06)
Fox TV chief slams decency rules (7/25/06)
Museums’ research on looting seen to lag (7/25/06)
Museum collections: Curatorial privilege and the public interest (7/25/06)
In Istanbul, a writer awaits her day in court (7/25/06)
Former Harvard Medical School professor convicted of attempted grand larceny in L.A. (7/24/06)
The crumbling of the Casbah (7/24/06)
For top law students, a sidebar with the arts (7/24/06)
Copyright: Just whose idea is it anyway? (7/23/06)
Fight for Stonehenge takes to the air (7/23/06)
Soldiers’ words may test PBS language rules (7/23/06)
Should art museums always be free? There’s room for debate (7/23/06)
Village tells local artist: Not in your backyard (7/21/06)
It's art squad v. tomb raiders as Greece reclaims its pillaged past (7/21/06)
Finances published online in an effort to rebuild reputation (7/21/06)
Berry-Hill bankruptcy drags in other dealers (7/20/06)
Family dispute may destroy architectural gem (7/20/06)
India's congress objects to Gandhi film (7/20/06)
Tate faulted for purchase from an artist-trustee (7/20/06)
Art is among worst-performing investments, Merrill Lynch says (7/20/06)
DVD deal lets films go from web to TV (7/20/06)
Reading, PA: It's not just outlet malls anymore (7/20/06)
Pondering the value of a really expensive Klimt (7/19/06)
Sotheby's narrows gap with Christie's in first-half auctions (7/19/06)
Ruling: Tate broke law in buying Ofili work (7/19/06)
Neue Galerie scraps a $50 offer to see its new Klimts (7/19/06)
Hong Kong deploys kids to fight copyright crime (7/19/06)
Print dealers banned from Frieze in London (7/18/06)
China's new rich drive up prices of contemporary Chinese art (7/18/06)
In a lawsuit aimed at Iran, terror victims focus on ancient artifacts in a Chicago museum (7/18/06)
Are writers' estates ruining innovation? (7/18/06)
Australian art and what we make of it (7/18/06)
When art goes public, neighborhoods notice (7/17/06)
Beatles tape seller spared jail (7/17/06)
Vatican 'to show more modern art' (7/17/06)
Brooklyn Museum’s plan for its curators angers organization (7/17/06)
Competing glass artists throw stones over ownership of ideas (7/17/06)
Veto override is welcome news to MA arts institutions (7/17/06)
Plundered art plagues museums all across America (7/16/06)
Robert Hecht & unanswered Euphronios questions (7/16/06)
Senator declares Smithsonian head “unfit to serve” (7/15/06)
The surging allure of masterpieces from lesser painters (7/15/06)
'Fake' puts the focus on Seattle art con man again (7/15/06)
Greece closing ancient theatres to repair wear and tear (7/15/06)
Time has come for title insurance on art (7/15/06)
Sony BMG deal under new scrutiny (7/14/06)
Call for 'illegal' MP3 site talks (7/14/06)
Klimt's $135 million Bloch-Bauer portrait lights up Neue Galerie (7/14/06)
U.K., European heirs sell Asian art at $37 million London sales (7/13/06)
What makes a Shakespeare folio so valuable? (7/13/06)
Shakespeare volume fetches $4.6 million at London auction (7/13/06)
Indie labels want copyright shift (7/12/06)
Christie's to let customers bid over Internet in some auctions (7/12/06)
Van Gogh show in Edinburgh offers masterworks, investment tips (7/12/06)
4 UNESCO-listed sites no longer at risk (7/12/06)
Austrian artists arrested for concrete football stunt (7/11/06)
Public's views sought on Nazi art (7/11/06)
Preserving video in California (7/11/06)
Greece demands return of stolen heritage (7/11/06)
Defeated Da Vinci Code case historians plan appeal (7/11/06)
Renovations to a study room by Aalto splits Harvard faculty (7/10/06)
Getty agrees to return two antiquities to Greece (7/10/06)
Luxembourg opens Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (7/10/06)
Will Islamic law trump artistic quality? (7/10/06)
Guggenheim expands into Emirates (7/10/06)
Joyce heirs fight hard for copyright retention (7/10/06)
Court: Sanitizing racy content in films violates U.S. copyright laws (7/10/06)
Warhol's Chairman Mao will go to auction (7/8/06)
Authenticity of a Duccio masterpiece at the Met is challenged (7/8/06)
Metropolitan Museum of Art denies fake painting claim (7/7/06)
British heirs sell $13.6 million painting in London (7/7/06)
Chicago museum, Iran fight U.S. court over auction of Persian tablets (7/7/06)
Publishers unite against Google (7/7/06)
$50m 'masterpiece' is poor forgery, says arts professor (7/6/06)
Can a travel guide for illegal immigrants be a work of art? (7/6/06)
Copyright killing artistic freedom? (7/6/06)
Abrupt departure roils Liverpool's culture plans (7/6/06)
Plans for new Orthodox cathedral in Romania could end up in court (7/6/06)
Inserting museum keeps Louis Vuitton flagship store on the Champs-Élysées open Sundays (7/5/06)
Lawmaker sees both sides of broadcast legislation (7/5/06)
Music industry to sue Yahoo China (7/5/06)
Smiley face is serious to company (7/5/06)
Restoring a historic pipe organ at Troy Savings Bank (7/5/06)
After troubled past, new expressions in Cambodian art (7/5/06)
Hedge-fund managers Cohen, Sender, Loeb are top art collectors (7/4/06)
A venue for film theft? (7/4/06)
Rembrandt anniversary drawing bumper crop of visitors to Amsterdam (7/3/06)
Issues behind Cambridge arts fight (7/3/06)
Cinema detective to tackle piracy (7/3/06)
Holbein, Carracci star in $121 million London old-master sales (7/3/06)
Guernica wants "Guernica" back (7/3/06)
Kimmelman: new Paris museum "brow-snappingly wrongheaded" (7/3/06)
Unilever withdraws gay art sponsorship (7/2/06)
Sackler Gallery cancels exhibition of Iraqi gold (7/2/06)
Flights away from harmony, toward parody (7/2/06)
Christie's Rumbler sees growing foreign demand for German art (6/30/06)
Lloyd Webber may get $60 million for Picasso's `Angel' portrait (6/30/06)
Vancouver art controversy just a sign of the times (6/30/06)
New Liverpool museum expected to open two years after European celebrations (6/30/06)
Klimt paintings may be sold for $140 million, art sellers say (6/30/06)
UK orchestras saved from crippling insurance bill (6/30/06)
London's South Bank 'vision' falls short of expectations (6/30/06)
Words that shaped a vision of equality: King's papers (6/29/06)
Virgin France fined over piracy (6/29/06)
Why get excited about the high price of Klimts? (6/29/06)
Giving the artists a voice in preserving their work (6/29/06)
A Belgian orchestra puts itself up for sale on eBay (6/29/06)
An upswing in Los Angeles arts grants (6/29/06)
Gustav Zumsteg's art collection fetches $10 million in Zurich (6/28/06)
For a new Paris museum, Jean Nouvel creates his own rules (6/28/06)
The next stage - Art as home-selling enhancement (6/28/06)
Milne family lose Winnie the Pooh rights bid (6/28/06)
Los Angeles County to double arts grants (6/28/06)
Phillips de Pury to open saleroom in London (6/27/06)
Dutch man confesses to attack on masterpiece (6/27/06)
Paparazzi firm target of FBI search (6/27/06)
Outsiders find artistic success (6/27/06)
In Mexico City, an edgy (and busy) art scene emerges (6/27/06)
Seeking an American essence in art (6/27/06)
Museums - priced out of collecting? (6/27/06)
Danish art duo plans Iranian revolution (6/26/06)
In digital age, advancing a flexible copyright system (6/26/06)
Art prices may climb after $533 million London sales (6/26/06)
Morehouse College acquires King papers, pre-empting auction (6/26/06)
Slang reference book is banned in North Carolina (6/26/06)
Norwegian music strike ends in mediated settlement (6/26/06)
Hunt Museum's links to Nazi art 'were covered up' (6/25/06)
Film piracy saga is pure Hollywood (6/25/06)
Last call to keep £1.2m masterpiece in Britain (6/25/06)
Washington museums reborn: Patently inspiring (6/25/06)
From Moscow with moolah: how Russians are fuelling the art boom (6/24/06)
Bacon misses, Chillida wins at Christie's $47.8 million auction (6/23/06)
Is art a good investment? Let's do the numbers... (6/23/06)
Dismay as German painting is sold abroad (6/23/06)
Epitaph for a botched president (6/23/06)
Studio sues over student 9/11 film (6/23/06)
French politicians back off on new copyright law (6/23/06)
Iraqi museum staff to receive training in US (6/22/06)
Kinneil museum protesters claim backing (6/22/06)
Getty and Italians reach accord (6/22/06)
Loss of curators' power seen in Brooklyn museum plan (6/22/06)
Stolen Schiele masterpiece fetches £11.7m (6/22/06)
Hockney painting sells for £2.6m (6/22/06)
ACLU sues Florida schools over Cuba book ban (6/22/06)
FCC will review media ownership rules (6/22/06)
French literary works fetch high prices at auction (6/21/06)
Schiele, Picasso star in Christie's $160 million London sale (6/21/06)
How Ron Lauder decided to buy a $135 million painting (6/21/06)
Paris unveils tribal art museum (6/21/06)
Antiquities dealer on trial in Getty case is vexed but unbowed (6/21/06)
Antiquities dealer on trial in Getty case is vexed but unbowed (6/21/06)
Art: A record total for London auction (6/20/06)
Love it or hate it, we must save the Commonwealth Institute (6/20/06)
A fence with more beauty, fewer barbs (6/20/06)
Getty is prepared to return 21 disputed antiquities to Italy (6/20/06)
China piracy costs film industry $2.7 bln in 2005 (6/20/06)
Lauder pays $135 million, a record, for a Klimt portrait (6/19/06)
Italians extend art offer to MFA (6/19/06)
Getty museum admits 350 more treasures may be looted (6/19/06)
The passion and politics of stolen art (6/19/06)
Hecht on trial: A victim of changing interpretations? (6/19/06)
Lauder pays $135 million, a record, for Klimt recovered from Austria (6/18/06)
Moshe Dayan accused in antiquities plunder (6/18/06)
Getty's list of doubtful acquisitions multiplies (6/18/06)
Shadows in a tomb - the other defendant in Rome (6/18/06)
Accused tomb robber leads police to ancient tomb in Italy (6/17/06)
Apple's iPod faces patent probe (6/17/06)
Why is US Congress upping "indecency" crackdown? (6/17/06)
The future of the American workforce in the global creative economy (6/17/06)
A coverup? Not so fast for L.A. murals (6/16/06)
Studio owner loses lawsuit against White Stripes (6/16/06)
Art dealers: Artists love 'em and (success in hand) leave 'em (6/16/06)
Mayan treasures at the Met: Strange communications from the beyond (6/16/06)
Brooklyn College art students file suit (6/16/06)
With coaxing, "Whistler's Mother" comes to town (6/16/06)
Raiding the tomb raiders (6/15/06)
European collectors on their annual shopping spree (6/15/06)
US museums trounce European institutions (6/15/06)
NYC blocked from enforcing graffiti law (6/15/06)
A moment of truth for all in the antiquities field (6/15/06)
Lax security at Turkey's museums (6/15/06)
Museums also suffer when art is looted (6/15/06)
Destroying history in Georgia's national parks (6/15/06)
Delayed reaction to art theft splits business brothers (6/14/06)
Afghanistan protects Bactrian treasure (6/14/06)
The Injustice Collector: Is James Joyce’s grandson suppressing scholarship? (6/14/06)
Road plans put Stonehenge status at risk (6/14/06)
India court blocks Da Vinci ban (6/14/06)
Turning a blind eye to stealing history (6/13/06)
Global antiquities scandal exposes flawed acquisition policies at America's elite museums (6/12/06)
As art theft case divides a family business (6/12/06)
Australia investigates aboriginal art business (6/12/06)
Suit filed in destruction of LA mural (6/11/06)
Sotheby’s to auction MLK Jr. collection (6/11/06)
Baltic gallery investigated by National Audit Office (6/11/06)
Hunt continues for SS loot (6/11/06)
Sentences slashed in Egyptian antiquities case (6/9/06)
Bureau of Land Management plans activities as Antiquities Act turns 100 (6/9/06)
History plundered in Turkish museums (6/9/06)
North Ossetia plundered of its Golden Age (6/9/06)
North Ossetia plundered of its Golden Age (6/9/06)
Stolen Dominican antiquities recovered in the U.S. (6/9/06)
Auction house faking incident spooks growing Hungarian art market (6/8/06)
Art theft victim, Venezuela both claim 'historic documents' (6/8/06)
First issue of Art Loss Review published (6/8/06)
Historic painting swiped from Sacramento church (6/7/06)
Smithsonian Inspector General quits citing lack of support (6/7/06)
Popular LA mural mysteriously painted over - legal questions remain (6/7/06)
Kimbell to return its only Turner to heirs of owners looted by French pro-Nazi officials (6/7/06)
Sinn Féin leader removed from guest list for V&A's opening of revolutionary art (6/5/06)
On the fake (6/5/06)
Is Getty too rich? (6/5/06)
Getty decides on a transparent future (6/4/06)
Is the right of publicity silencing artists and satirists? (6/4/06)
Reporter returns looted portrait (6/3/06)
Will Nefertiti return to Egypt? (6/2/06)
Unique William Blake album dispersed forever, probably at no profit (6/1/06)
Hampton University still investigating source of Kenyan statue (6/1/06)
Photographs of Getty griffins shown at antiquities trial in Rome (6/1/06)
Iraq's ancient artefacts still missing (6/1/06)
Exploitative dealers & venal practitioners threaten to devalue the currency of Aboriginal art (6/1/06)
Competition for looted antiquities precludes checking provenance (6/1/06)
Glass artists face off in court (6/1/06)
Nonprofits urge Congress to enact charitable giving incentives & reforms (6/1/06)
"Antiquities should be in a museum, not in people's homes." (5/31/06)
Japan returns ancient Korean archive (5/31/06)
Theft of bronze statues worth £45,000 linked to 'artworks for scrap' gang (5/31/06)
Art thieves empty Byward Market gallery (5/31/06)
The arts of the state could yet prove a political weapon (5/30/06)
Donating work for charity has a downside for artists (5/30/06)
Minnesota arts groups mostly happy with legislative session (5/30/06)
Failure to win art prize leads artist to court (5/29/06)
Archibald Prize Challenge website (5/29/06)
Hanging Judges and the Archibald Prize (5/29/06)
Minerva Magazine's website on items still missing from National Museum of Iraq (5/29/06)
Fair use strengthened in court decision on small reproductions of Grateful Dead concert posters (5/29/06)
Invasion of the sculpture snatchers (5/29/06)
Javanese earthquake damages ancient temple complex (5/29/06)
Bibliothèque National sues Brooklyn dealer over manuscript (5/29/06)
Turkish museum director held for stealing riches of Croesus (5/29/06)
Placing right value on Malaysian heritage (5/29/06)
Threat over Tut exhibit resolved by loan (5/29/06)
Germany university to return ancient Egyptian relief (5/29/06)
Precious viola stolen 26 years ago found in barn - dispute over ownership ensues (5/29/06)
China makes efforts to reclaim cultural relics (5/29/06)
Art dealer sentenced to 14 months in prison (5/29/06)
Art can anger but not like architecture (5/29/06)
New world of Russian forgers (5/29/06)
Donating work for charity has downside for artists (5/29/06)
Triennial in Paris: France tries to bolster its image in contemporary art (5/27/06)
NY graffiti painters see craft as art not vandalism (5/25/06)
World watches in silence as Azerbaijan wipes out Armenian culture (5/25/06)
Iranian police confiscate 2,000 ancient relics from smugglers (5/25/06)
Community property may dominate next great cultural transformation (5/25/06)
Center for Creative Voices in Media seeks to intervene in lawsuit against FCC indecency decisions (5/25/06)
Police dig in at remote temple to repel tomb raiders (5/24/06)
The Mask and the Judge (5/24/06)
Shanghai crackdown: art fought the law and the law won (5/24/06)
Antiquities of Cyprus, victims of invasion (5/23/06)
An insider's look at business of art (5/23/06)
Opening argument for linking lawyers, arts (5/23/06)
Alaskan hunters may use animal parts in art (5/23/06)
Oxford in dispute with Japan over stolen 16th century rare book (5/23/06)
US takes aim at fake American Indian art (5/22/06)
Gospel truth or clever fakes? (5/22/06)
For the museum or the grave? (5/22/06)
Cleveland tries again for art tax (5/21/06)
Antiquities Act Centennial (5/21/06)
Museums Association (UK) welcomes anti-seizure proposals (5/21/06)
China sets up commission to combat fake art (5/21/06)
Preserving history by removing relics (5/19/06)
NPR on The Medici Conspiracy (5/19/06)
Clash over ancient bronze: Christie's says Greek, dealers say Roman (5/19/06)
Glass blower in court (5/19/06)
Greece persuades Getty museum to return artefacts (5/19/06)
Weimar struggles to recreate library lost to fire (5/19/06)
Norwegian prosecutor appealing lenient sentences in Scream theft (5/19/06)
Pressure on museums to return antiquities may be producing a new code of conduct for the art world (5/18/06)
Getty to return selected antiquities to Greece (5/17/06)
Turkish culture ministry chases stolen artifacts (5/16/06)
No trace remains of Christian cemetery in Azerbaijan (5/16/06)
Director of Getty unrattled by Italian & Greek claims to antiquities (5/16/06)
1/3 of China's archaeological sites hit by tomb robbers (5/16/06)
University resists demand to return Kenyan ritual statue (5/16/06)
Bombing victims drop claim to Iranian artifacts in Michigan museums (5/16/06)
Jerusalem trial sheds light on shadowy antiquities world (5/16/06)
Barnes raises $150 million required for relocation (5/15/06)
Proposed anti-pornography law is creating resentment in Indonesia (5/15/06)
Santa Fe art law confab eyes virtual theft, creative issues (5/15/06)
The great eBay art scam (5/15/06)
Dispute over authenticity of Rodin works headed for court (5/15/06)
Seattle gallery welcomes graffiti artists (5/14/06)
China orders galleries to remove paintings with political themes (5/14/06)
Director asks Egyptian authorities to cease attacks on St. Louis Art Museum (5/14/06)
Looted tombs and severed fingers fuel art trade (5/13/06)
$2.475 million painting sold without authorization? (5/13/06)
Inaugural issue of Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony (5/13/06)
Saga of the Getty bronze (5/13/06)
Oklahoma — last US state to outlaw tattooing — will now lift body art ban (5/13/06)
Christie’s could face legal action over Cordoba beams (5/13/06)
Students to sue city over closed New York exhibit (5/9/06)
Tattoo ordinance fails to pass test (5/9/06)
Visual side of law practice (5/9/06)
Solo practice at Tate museums (5/9/06)
National Gallery of Art settles plagiarism suit (5/8/06)
Red tape blocks return of American Indian remains (5/8/06)
NY gallery under illicit antiquities spotlight (5/8/06)
California university receives gift of ancient Chinese art whose authenticity is being questioned (5/8/06)
Notes from the Underground reviews The Medici Conspiracy (5/8/06)
Greek police arrive in London on trail of smuggled antiquities (5/8/06)
End of the line for British engineering museum (5/8/06)
Stones of contention - Flynn on PhDiva (5/8/06)
Designer champions graffiti at home (5/7/06)
Graffiti artists tag city councilman as enemy No. 1 (5/7/06)
Glassblower countersuit challenges integrity of Chihuly art (5/7/06)
Nonprofit organizations are falling apart (5/7/06)
Brooklyn parks commissioner closes college art show (5/7/06)
Former Getty curator facing charges in Greece (5/7/06)
Provenance of New Guinea art in de Young Museum under scrutiny (5/4/06)
Indian artists want resale rights (5/3/06)
Mayor Bloomberg v NYC graffiti artists (5/3/06)
Clothing designers challenge Miami Beach law against graffiti (5/3/06)
Brandeis University pulls artwork by Palestinian youths (5/3/06)
3 convicted, 3 acquitted in theft of Munch's art (5/2/06)
Judge wipes out NYC anti-graffiti law (5/2/06)
Egypt gives Saint Louis Art Museum May 15 deadline to turn over burial mask (5/2/06)
Not a whisper about stolen Scream (5/2/06)
Possession order - provenance a hot topic for museums (5/2/06)
California conviction for art fraud resonates in Massachusetts (5/2/06)
Jiroft's stolen ancient goblet found in Yazd (5/2/06)
Smugglers destroy Iron Age cemetery south of Tehran (5/2/06)
Auctions & authentication of Indian art (5/2/06)
Frederic Remington forgeries (5/2/06)
Archaeologists debate whether to ignore the pasts of relics (5/1/06)
Goudstikker deal forces Dutch to face their role in Nazi looting (5/1/06)
Archaeologists and amateur treasure hunters agree on code of conduct (5/1/06)
China cracks down on contemporary art (5/1/06)
'Art bombs' spark major alert in London (5/1/06)
Egypt’s antiquities council campaigns to repatriate icons from museums around the world (4/30/06)
Graffiti: Free speech or vandalism? (4/30/06)
Fake statues unmasked with X-rays (4/30/06)
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art improves handicapped access after lawsuit (4/30/06)
Statue fatwa riles artists (4/29/06)
Egypt's grand mufti declares ancient sculptures forbidden by Islam (4/29/06)
Exhibition honors forger John Myatt (4/29/06)
Isle of Wight's coroner wants treasure trove to remain on island (4/29/06)
Libya fears for its stolen heritage (4/29/06)
Whitey: The artful dodger? (4/29/06)
U.K. to pay heirs of Nazi-looted art on display in British Museum (4/28/06)
New York art gallery key link in antiquities network (4/28/06)
"Da Vinci Code' judge reveals secret code in his ruling (4/28/06)
Treasured totem pole returned to B.C. tribe (4/28/06)
Focus in Getty trial shifts to a Sicilian antiquities dealer (4/28/06)
Iran takes lead in restoration of Samarra mosque (4/27/06)
Turks claim stele in British Museum (4/27/06)
Israeli security barrier draws artists to a cause (4/27/06)
Artifact looting big business in US (4/26/06)
Rape of Babylon (4/25/06)
Illinois State Museum to return Kenyan artifact (4/25/06)
Thyssen and Prado fight over relocation of Paseo del Prado (4/24/06)
Sotheby's increases use of auction guarantees (4/24/06)
The great art robbery (4/24/06)
Honour amongst thieves - preservation trumps location when it comes to heritage (4/24/06)
Battle for return of stolen African art (4/24/06)
String of lawsuits target San Diego arts organizations (4/23/06)
Hot topic of provenance (4/23/06)
Tug of war over fragments possibly from Gospel of Judas (4/23/06)
Artist's family asks Google to take down 'painted' logo (4/23/06)
US soldier's role in retrieving Iraqi relics controversial (4/23/06)
Britain's biggest theft (4/23/06)
Family reunited with Schiele masterpiece stolen 60 years ago by Nazis (4/23/06)
US tomb raiders sell goods on eBay (4/22/06)
Treasure of Croesus lanquishes largely unseen (4/22/06)
Caretaker to be charged after antiquities seized at Greek villa (4/22/06)
Heirs fight over Nazi loot (4/22/06)
Japan to increase efforts in preserving heritage in developing countries (4/22/06)
Turkey probes suspected theft of ancient Lydian treasure (4/22/06)
Of museums, heirs and lawsuits (4/21/06)
Art fairs steal the show from the auction houses (4/21/06)
Sales play havoc with 'Islamic Art' (4/21/06)
Medieval Armenian cemetery in Azerbaijan vanishes (4/20/06)
Coin forgeries in the Roman Empire (4/20/06)
Ruined treasures in Babylon await peace in Iraq (4/20/06)
National Press Club address of Philippe de Montebello (4/20/06)
Council on Foundations restores Getty membership (4/20/06)
Criminality in the Russian art market at alarming levels (4/20/06)
Easter Island statue heads 'home' (4/17/06)
SAFE reviews three decades of controversy between Italy and the Met (4/17/06)
British embassies 'lose' dozens of artworks (4/17/06)
Claiming to own style (4/17/06)
Massive hoard of illegal antiquities discovered on tiny Aegean island (4/16/06)
Norwegian museum missing over 70 Munch art works (4/16/06)
Case of the stolen statues: Solving a Kenyan mystery (4/16/06)
Antiquities dealers emerge from shadows (4/16/06)
Gospel of Judas dealer has tainted past (4/16/06)
US colonel offers Iraq an apology for devastation of Babylon (4/16/06)
Italy's special Carabinieri unit fights art looting (4/16/06)
Museum guard uniforms often cloak painters, photographers & other practicing artists (4/16/06)
Lord Elgin - Saviour or Vandal? (4/15/06)
Turkey wants British Museum to return Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (4/15/06)
Works of art of dubious acquisition: beams from Cordoba Mosque (4/15/06)
Peru-Yale dispute has long, murky past (4/15/06)
Finders keepers: Yale, Peru and Machu Picchu (4/15/06)
Patrimony of Gospel of Judas papyrus (4/15/06)
UNESCO intends to put the magic back in Babylon (4/14/06)
Rich history of two lost murals (4/14/06)
Stolen rare books can remain missing for decades (4/14/06)
Philadelphia museums use strict rules to ensure licit acquisitions (4/14/06)
Indiana Jones of Baghdad searches for stolen Iraqi art (4/13/06)
Boston arts appointment gets mixed reaction (4/13/06)
Collectors Universe and Art Loss Register agree to offer coin and diamond recovery services tied to certification (4/13/06)
British Museum's reply to ownership debate (4/13/06)
Is Gospel of Judas looted cultural property? (4/13/06)
Al-Jazeerah claims looting of Baghdad Museum a Zionist plot with US assistance (4/13/06)
Gold train proceeds will go to museums (4/13/06)
'Stolen' treasures better off in the West, says African curator (4/13/06)
On the lookout for Kenya's vanishing statues (4/13/06)
Archaeologist arrested for purchasing Dead Sea Scroll fragments (4/13/06)
Phony sheik sentenced for selling fake Rembrandt (4/12/06)
British Museum loans Kenya cultural artifacts removed by colonial authorities 100 years ago (4/12/06)
Iraq & Italy spar over antiquities find (4/11/06)
TV Documentary about the stolen Saqqara mask (4/11/06)
Final location of Altmann Klimts could alter US museum landscape (4/11/06)
New quest for modern China: Saving its artifacts (4/7/06)
Whitewash of Iraqi museum looting? (4/7/06)
Harvard donor at center of artifacts storm (4/7/06)
A cartoonist, a Rockwell and a ruse (4/6/06)
Tax squabble may force sale of €25m pre-Colombian art collection (4/6/06)
Beckett casket at V&A seized as Nazi loot (4/6/06)
Klutz who broke Fitzwilliam vases arrested (4/5/06)
Cadavers as art (4/5/06)
General Patton's loot (4/5/06)
Can Persian treasures in American museums compensate victims of terrorists? (4/5/06)
LACMA display raises questions about fate of great works of art (4/5/06)
Bulgaria to register all private collections of cultural artifacts (4/5/06)
Spain tries to halt auction of beams from Great Mosque of Cordoba (4/5/06)
Museums caught with their hands in the tombs (4/5/06)
NPR covers dispute between Peru and Yale over artifacts from Machu Picchu (4/3/06)
Terrorists raise cash by selling antiquities (4/3/06)
Greeks raid vacation home of ex-Getty curator (4/2/06)
Ghost in the Baghdad Museum (4/2/06)
Threat to heritage caves of Bombay (4/2/06)
Torah scroll mantel that survived Nazis returns to descendants of creator (4/2/06)
ICE takes custody of art stolen from Mexico (4/2/06)
Portraits of art thieves - picture varies (4/2/06)
To appraise art truly, you need the art in hand (4/2/06)
Saving Chinese artifacts: a slow fight (4/2/06)
$200 million gift reflects debate over antiquities (4/2/06)
205 works by Andrew Wyeth "repatriated" from Japanese owner (4/1/06)
Rome trial focuses on London dealer (3/31/06)
British journalist, Peter Watson, testifies against ex-Getty curator in Rome (3/31/06)
Stolen art met with public yawn (3/31/06)
Italy accuses Minneapolis Institute of Arts of containing looted antique vase (3/31/06)
Is It All Loot? Tackling The Antiquities Problem (3/29/06)
Ownership or stewardship? (3/29/06)
NYU faculty question donation from major antiquities collector (3/29/06)
Greece facing ‘explosive’ situation with illegal digs (3/29/06)
Indonesia seizes four ships containing artifacts looted from ancient shiupwrecks (3/29/06)
Italian government says Princeton University owns stolen art (3/29/06)
Censoring of our museums (3/27/06)
Why claims of cultural ownership over historical artefacts are problematic (3/27/06)
Documentary film revisits destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas (3/26/06)
Missing Munch masterpiece haunts art heist trial (3/26/06)
Concordia University seeks return of Nazi loot (3/26/06)
Museum sculptures fake, art expert says (3/26/06)
Truth behind fake Indian art (3/26/06)
Hawaiian artifacts trafficker pleads guilty (3/26/06)
Sleuthing for looted art (3/25/06)
Vanishing violin case cracked (3/25/06)
Egypt wants Cleopatra's Needle returned so it can be better preserved (3/25/06)
Royal Society moves to block sale of £1m manuscript at Bonhams (3/25/06)
Italy recovers statue from Roman poet's famed Sabine farm (3/25/06)
Terrorism victims seek redress from museums (3/25/06)
Maria Altmann awarded stake in Viennese 'palais' (3/25/06)
Egypt moves to claim mask from St. Louis museum (3/24/06)
Is a haircut a culture crime? (3/24/06)
Democrats call for new hearings on Nazi-looted artwork (3/23/06)
Latest target of EU rules: pipe organs (3/22/06)
Film of artist's mass nude photo shoot being sold in pubs (3/21/06)
Carneigie Meoolon crafts a compromise on artist's controversial sculpture (3/20/06)
Copycat artists (3/20/06)
Getty & Met caught in a Bermuda triangle of money, power and hypocrisy (3/19/06)
US agrees to restrict pre-Columbian antiquities and historical religious art from Colombia (3/19/06)
John Singer Sargent's murals touched off nationwide controversy over depiction of religious figures (3/19/06)
To artist, cell tower insults his work (3/19/06)
Recommendations of the Interpol Expert Group on Stolen Cultural Property (3/19/06)
How will trial in Italy affect museum-acquisition practices? (3/19/06)
National Park Service recognizes centennial of Antiquities Act (3/19/06)
Italy and MFA spar over possibly looted art (3/19/06)
Pillaging Italy's precious history (3/18/06)
Klimts headed for Los Angeles (3/18/06)
Home raided during investigation of museum purchase of £1m fake Egyptian statue (3/18/06)
New underground railroad museum $5.5 million in red shortly after opening (3/18/06)
Salem renaissance fueled by museum renovation (3/18/06)
Boston gallery owner may face criminal charges in disposal of rare items (3/18/06)
Totem pole returned to Canadian tribe (3/17/06)
Origins and legacy of the Antiquities Act (3/17/06)
Is Costco selling Picasso? (3/17/06)
Copyright by comic book (3/17/06)
MFA head plans Rome trip to discuss disputed works (3/17/06)
Decision to break up William Blake album branded "philistine" (3/16/06)
The case of the purloined, unauthenticated Pollock (3/14/06)
Suit filed over purported fake Picasso drawing (3/14/06)
Associates paint dark portrait of 'Painter of Light' (3/13/06)
Russia forms Guild of Art Experts to fight spate of forgeries (3/13/06)
New legal approach draws museums into fray in fight against terror (3/13/06)
Britain considering immunity from seizure law for art works on loan from abroad (3/13/06)
Outdoor sculpture ignites debate in Portland ME (3/12/06)
Afghan looting may excede plundering of Iraqi sites (3/12/06)
Missoula man makes living sleuthing looted archaeological digs (3/12/06)
Archeologist hunts for third Bamiyan Buddha (3/12/06)
Stolen religious art in international trade (3/12/06)
Whose Marbles are these anyway? Ethical archaeology in the 21st century (3/10/06)
Winnipeg Public Library will stock magazine's controversial Muhammad cartoon issue (3/9/06)
U.S. returns to Saudi Arabia antique coins pilfered from Red Sea shipwreck in 1994 (3/9/06)
Muslims ask French to cancel 1741 play by Voltaire (3/7/06)
What links Euphronios & C. Douglas Dillon? (3/7/06)
Arbitration panel awards $860,000 to gallery owners who accused Thomas Kinkade's company of fraud (3/6/06)
Rescuing Da Vinci - the untold story of WWII (3/6/06)
Tracking the Nazi looters (3/6/06)
Stolen moments (3/6/06)
Big fight about illicit art (3/6/06)
No acuisition regrets for Met chief (3/6/06)
Art forger is painted out of a corner (3/6/06)
Antiques Roadshow and the law of antiquities (3/3/06)
British Museum to lend world treasures (but none Chinese) to China (3/3/06)
Peru will sue Yale over Machu Picchu relics (3/3/06)
Art stolen at Rio Carnival put up for sale online (3/3/06)
China and Italy team up to fight illicit antiquities trade (3/3/06)
New museum guidelines defend ties to collectors (3/2/06)
Enigmatic suspect in Gardner heist dies (3/2/06)
Did Bloomberg and Berlusconi negotiate Met's return of Italian antiquities in Bermuda? (3/2/06)
A master at recovering Old Masters (3/2/06)
PBS debates the issue of stolen art (3/2/06)
Thefts of memorial totems fuel Western demand for African art (3/2/06)
Archaeological Institute of America criticized AAMD guidelines and offers its own set of p[rinciples (3/2/06)
Association of Art Museum Directors releases new guidelines on loans of antiquities and ancient art (3/2/06)
Psst! Wanna buy An Oscar? (3/2/06)
Police link bank and Munch robberies (3/1/06)
Martinifest leaves art museum shaken and stirred (2/28/06)
Little hope for Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas (2/27/06)
Holocaust thefts must be repaid (2/27/06)
Who owns the past? (2/26/06)
Collectors' view of who owns the past (2/25/06)
Donald Judd Foundation will sell 35 Judd sculptures at Christie's to create $20 million endowment (2/25/06)
Fractal analysis and Pollock authenticity (2/25/06)
New guidelines assert museums right to show antiquities (2/25/06)
Theft of works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, and Dali mars start of Rio carnival (2/25/06)
Hungarian library returns home after 60 years (2/25/06)
Does donor/trustee of Met have ties to looted art? (2/24/06)
Art dealer pleads guilty to felony theft charges (2/24/06)
Stolen Iraqi artifacts run to ground in Spain (2/24/06)
France and Robert Capa's brother tussle over war photos (2/23/06)
Antiquities and iniquities (2/23/06)
Buying back China's lost art treasures (2/23/06)
Agreement between Italy and the Met (2/22/06)
Blast damages famous golden dome of al-Askari shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad (2/22/06)
Ceding art to Italy, Met avoids showdown (2/21/06)
First Nordic study of cultural heritage crime (2/21/06)
Probing Shelby White's collection (2/20/06)
Experts square off over authenticity of Pollocks (2/20/06)
Probing the Chihuly lawsuit (2/20/06)
Met's decision on looted antiquities not new (2/20/06)
Row over Israeli tolerance museum (2/20/06)
New Benin museum to lure back sub-Saharan Africa's lost art (2/20/06)
Italy's antiquities prosecutor speaks out (2/17/06)
Britain protests sale of rare Blake watercolors (2/17/06)
Mysterious voyage of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask (2/16/06)
Museums on trial (2/16/06)
Teaching soldiers to respect cultural heritage (2/16/06)
Insurer balks at covering stolen Pollock if it was a fake (2/16/06)
Art photo not subject to NY privacy law (2/15/06)
Egypt asks St. Louis Museum of Art to return a mask claimed stolen from Saqqara warehouse (2/15/06)
Kenyans mourn theft of burial statues for Western collectors (2/14/06)
Scandal sweeping Russian art market (2/12/06)
President of Getty Trust leaves but troubles remain (2/12/06)
Mahler's family fights for return of Munch masterpiece (2/12/06)
Trial in Rome from Archaeology magazine (2/12/06)
Yemen to prosecute newspaper editors for publishing Muhammad cartoons (2/12/06)
French Muslims suing papers over cartoons (2/12/06)
Britain's most valuable coin almost slips through legal loophole (2/11/06)
An Italian offer U.S. museums cannot refuse (2/11/06)
U.S. ambassador hands over looted art (2/11/06)
Where are the missing Munchs? (2/11/06)
Toledo Museum asked to drop suit over Gauguin painting (2/11/06)
Munitz pays $250,000 and resigns as head of Getty Trust (2/10/06)
Suit filed over Picasso drawing (2/10/06)
Art of looting (2/10/06)
Russia returns Sarospatak library to Hungary (2/10/06)
Montezuma's Headdress, in Europe for 500 years, may return home (2/10/06)
Shoah Suit Puts Scrutiny On Lauder's Art Collection (2/9/06)
Why a cartoon can sometimes provoke violence (2/8/06)
Muslims charge double standard in cartoon debate (2/8/06)
Muhammad's image subject of art in past (2/8/06)
Papers available for Chicago conference on protecting Iraqi cultural heritage (2/8/06)
Greek police unearth antiquities stash (2/8/06)
Dutch to rectify Nazi art grab (2/8/06)
Two British museums pay compensation to keep Nazi loot (2/8/06)
Protected African art easily available in Antwerp (2/8/06)
Dutch return 267 artworks stolen by Nazis (2/6/06)
Dutch restitution commission recommendation (2/6/06)
Wikipedia entry for Muhammad cartoons controversy (2/5/06)
Trail of a Treasure (2/5/06)
Russian collectors face plethora of fakes (2/5/06)
Met's reurn of "Hot Pot" may invite more claims (2/4/06)
United States to return paintings looted from Germany at end of WWII (2/4/06)
1994 Georgian art theft partially solved (2/4/06)
Iraq ccupation troops said to be involved in antiquities smuggling (2/4/06)
Museum ethics from a Jewish perspective (2/3/06)
US will not overturn French decision barring online auction of Nazi memorabilia (2/3/06)
Met agrees to return "hot pot" to Italy (2/2/06)
For $15.7 million Atlanta's High Museum will rent masterpieces from the Louvre (2/2/06)
Outrage grows over cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad (2/2/06)
Muslims boycott Danish products over cartoons (2/2/06)
Jyllands Posten Muhammed Cartoons (2/2/06)
Art Loss Register helps recover stolen Bakwin paintings (2/2/06)
Guided tour of artworks with potentially dubious origins (2/2/06)
Major Massachusetts art theft solved (2/1/06)
Detroit and Toledo Museums assert ownership of two paintings acquired in Nazi era (1/31/06)
Untied shoelace destroys 3 Qing dynasty vases (1/31/06)
Britain considers bill making insulting religions illegal (1/30/06)
Hot Russian art market flooded with fakes (1/30/06)
Klimt ruling raises issues of art ownership & national identity (1/30/06)
Sale of Borromeo Madonna brings Goudstikker heirs part of long-awaited restitution of Nazi-looted collection (1/30/06)
Altmann lawyer reflects seven-year endeavor to recover Nazi-looted art (1/30/06)
Met Museum's talks with Italy on disputed art sour (1/30/06)
Art heists on the rise as auction prices spiral (1/30/06)
US conviction for stealing rare French treaty may not bar French trial (1/30/06)
Reopening of Getty Villa overshadowed by allegations of theft and corruption (1/30/06)
Swiss accession to UNIDROIT Convention will better protect Swiss cultural heritage (1/30/06)
Attack on urinal brings $260,000 fine (1/26/06)
Muslim graves discovered on the site of Jewish Museum of Tolerance (1/26/06)
US failed to protect Iraq’s cultural heritage (1/25/06)
Detroit Institute of Arts sues to confirm title to Van Gogh against claims of Nazi looting (1/25/06)
UK police fear thefts of 20 bronze sculptures going for scrap (1/25/06)
European Parliament calls for Azerbaijan to end demolition of medieval Armenian cemeteries (1/24/06)
Who owns Seydou Keïta? On the nature of photography and the concept of authenticity (1/22/06)
New Moroccan law to protect antiquities against illicit dealers (1/22/06)
Europe bids to halt tide of art smuggled to America (1/22/06)
Art thief leads police to "Mona Lisa" of sculptures (1/22/06)
Treaty to control illegal art trade between China and Italy (1/21/06)
Looting continues in Iraq (1/20/06)
38-ton Serra sculpture may be largest art theft (1/20/06)
Convicted rare book thieves can keep profits from the story of their crime (1/20/06)
Former NPR reporter sues NPR and MoMA for slander (1/20/06)
Altmann Klimts threatened (1/20/06)
US-Italy continue import controls (1/20/06)
St. Louis Museum dismisses claim that mummy mask was stolen (1/20/06)
Archaeologist Dorothy King speaks for Elgin Marbles in Britain (1/20/06)
Serbia's museums confront growing peril (1/20/06)
Polish sculpture cannot find place to rest in Boston (1/20/06)
Woman denies handling stolen Rossborough paintings (1/19/06)
Austrian arbitration court returns Klimt paintings to heir of Holocaust victim (1/17/06)
Gun dealer sentenced for fraud against weapons collector (1/16/06)
When theft serves art (1/16/06)
Donor protest forces Met to cancel auction (1/16/06)
Barnes move now set for 2009 (1/16/06)
Italy offers Metropolitan Museum deal on disputed art (1/13/06)
Manhattan DA establishes antiquities task force (1/13/06)
Talks continue between Peru and Yale as lawsuit looms (1/12/06)
Journalist Suzan Mazur tapes 1990 interview with Sotheby's experts before sale of Euphronios works from Hunt collection (1/11/06)
Parthenon statue fragment to be returned (1/10/06)
Big business of art theft (1/9/06)
Rules of the antiquities game (1/9/06)
Why museums should be slow to sell off any art (1/9/06)
Duchamp's Fountain attacked with hammer (1/9/06)
Missouri Arts Council cancels millions in arts support (1/9/06)
New 7 Wonders of the World campaign announces 21 final candidates (1/9/06)
Correcting archaeological injustice - lessons of the Obelisk of Axum (1/7/06)
Major New York gallery files for bankruptcy (1/5/06)
Mummy Who Would Be King airs on PBS January 3 (1/3/06)
Storm brews over treasures sunk in 1814 (1/2/06)
Austria removes "porn" posters from sex-ed up EU campaign (1/2/06)
Sheikh accused of art export 'abuse' (1/1/06)
Cartoons ignite cultural combat in Denmark (12/31/05)
Balkan Bandits top list of European art thieves (12/31/05)
Memoirs of a jewel thief (12/30/05)
American Indians want Yale's Skull & Bones to return Geronimo's skull (12/30/05)
Peru battles Yale over Incan artifacts (12/30/05)
Italian police catch tomb raider (12/30/05)
Bishop Museum in dispute with native Hawaiians over grave goods (12/30/05)
Archaeological objects from Morocco and Mali seized by French Customs (12/30/05)
Italy using art loans to regain antiquities (12/29/05)
Murky world of the antiquities trade (12/29/05)
Attorney Ronald Olson will look into finances and more at beleaguered Getty Trust (12/26/05)
Whistleblower at the Met (12/26/05)
Europa Nostra represents over 200 heritage NGOs active throughout Europe (12/26/05)
Medal withdrawn when painting discovered to be a forgery (12/26/05)
Italy nears deal with Met on looted art (12/24/05)
Bronze-age treasures rescued after eBay sale (12/23/05)
Nubia Museum not flooded with visitors (12/23/05)
Armenian cemetery at Djulfa, Azerbaijan, destroyed (12/23/05)
Council on Foundations places Getty Trust on probation (12/22/05)
Police accused of letting Munch paintings slip away (12/21/05)
Tate pays to recover two stolen Turners (12/21/05)
Chihuly lawsuit tests limits of copyright protection for artistic style (12/19/05)
Czech court awards Nazi-looted art to Canadian family (12/19/05)
Stolen objects? Shady dealers? Time for a change? (12/18/05)
The curse of Aphrodite - the Getty on trial (12/18/05)
Governments doing little to stop trade in looted Iraqi antiquities (12/18/05)
Former smuggler not impressed by police efforts to interdict black market in Iraqi artefacts (12/18/05)
A civilized solution to looted art (12/17/05)
Ethiopians ponder disrupting present to reclaim past (12/17/05)
African culture ministers ponder common view of heritage issues (12/17/05)
Native Hawaiians want location of funerary objects kept under court seal (12/17/05)
Documents give view of Getty Curator's ties to smuggler (12/17/05)
Artifact auction upsets some Native Americans (12/15/05)
Thieves steal painting from gallery owner's car but get caught asking gallery for appraisal (12/14/05)
Appeals court orders native Hawaiian group to return 83 priceless artifacts to Bishop Museum (12/14/05)
Berry-Hill Galleries file for chapter 11 bankruptcy (12/13/05)
The terrorist in the art gallery (12/12/05)
Getty Trust expands board (12/12/05)
Search continues for looted Iraqi treasures (12/11/05)
Five hurt in terrorist bombing seek artifacts as restitution (12/11/05)
Thefts at Everhart Museum symptomatic of growing problem (12/11/05)
Czech historians seeks to return Nazi-confiscated works to owners (12/9/05)
The Rembrandt Code (12/9/05)
Philadelphia's role in recovery of stolen art (12/9/05)
The master forger (12/9/05)
Appeals court pushes for info on reburied Hawaiian artifacts (12/8/05)
Heritage Health Index concludes immediate action needed to preserve millions of irreplaceable artifacts (12/8/05)
New law opens Greece to scuba looters (12/7/05)
Australian theologian accuses archaeologists and historians of using false documentary evidence (12/5/05)
Russian museums balk at loans without guarantees against impoundment (12/5/05)
Ruling in favor of Malevich heirs threatens loans to museums (12/5/05)
Preservers or predators of underwater heritage? (12/3/05)
20,000 antique books flooded in accident at Beijing Culture Palace of Nationalities (12/3/05)
Critics charge private facility cannot properly care for rare fossil (12/3/05)
Sotheby's and the saga of the signed Euphronios (12/3/05)
Safeguarding art (12/3/05)
Issues with insuring corporate art collections (12/3/05)
Getty tells Greece it will discuss returning artifacts in 2006 (12/2/05)
Peru prepares to sue Yale over Machu Picchu relics (12/1/05)
Italy lacks proof Met's antique pots were looted (11/30/05)
German archaeologist and cultural property advocate kidnapped in Iraq (11/29/05)
French collector sues Van Gogh Museum for opining his flea market purchase is a fake (11/28/05)
New York gallery accused of orchestrating price-fixing scheme (11/28/05)
Why 'Antiquities Trials' focus on America (11/26/05)
Harvard museums to sell Cassatt work (11/23/05)
Swiss free confiscated Russian art (11/23/05)
2500 year old Greek vase shattered in smuggling probe (11/23/05)
United States & Nicaragua extend cultural preservation agreement (11/23/05)
Greek officials demand return of Getty antiquities (11/22/05)
Senate bill lets artists deduct fair market value of in-kind donations (11/22/05)
The hunt for $4 million worth of missing art (11/21/05)
The kidnapping of La Conquistadora (11/21/05)
LA Times stories on the Getty (11/18/05)
Fire in Tehran University law library destroys 25,000 volumes (11/18/05)
Ex-curator at Getty received personal loan from collectors whose antiquities were acquired by museum (11/18/05)
Swiss seize Russian-owned art to settle a debt (11/17/05)
Ex-Getty curator appears in Rome court (11/17/05)
Smugglers and legends complicate fight against antiquities theft in Macedonia (11/17/05)
FBI creates list to track down notorious art heists (11/16/05)
Iran embarks on legal crusade to reclaim and protect ancient site (11/15/05)
Convicted smuggler claims he was offered reduced prison time to testify against major museums (11/14/05)
Met director to discuss 'Hot Pot' in Rome (11/13/05)
Trial in Rome promises to expose looters' veiled world (11/13/05)
At Getty Trust, the trust part is lacking (11/13/05)
Real story behind Iraq Museum thefts (11/13/05)
Looted art linked to Princeton (11/13/05)
Five arrested trying to remove peace group's cemetery flag display on Veterans Day eve (11/12/05)
Americans for the Arts issues preliminary report of the 2005 election impact on the arts (11/11/05)
Getty returns three ancient artifacts to Italy (11/11/05)
US security measures threaten Samarra’s heritage (11/10/05)
Looted Iraqi antiquities wait patiently for reappearance on the illicit market (11/10/05)
Does Tate's payment for return of two Turners set bad precedent? (11/10/05)
Hoving on the "hot pot" - former Met director reviews acquisition of antiquity now claimed by Italy (11/9/05)
Pillaging the Gardens of Babylon (11/9/05)
Several museums may possess looted art (11/9/05)
Imbroglio at the Getty (11/7/05)
Does art belong to a place? (11/7/05)
Italian trial puts US museum practices under scrutiny (11/7/05)
Israeli police arrest archaeologist suspected of ancient relic trade (11/4/05)
US to investigate Chinese looting of Tibet (11/4/05)
Housecleaning at Egyptian Museum uncovers forgotten treasures (11/4/05)
Smuggling ring repeatedly used Sotheby's according to Italian indictments (11/4/05)
UK issues due diligence guidelines on collecting and borrowing cultural material (11/4/05)
Did MFA receive stolen art? (11/4/05)
MFA and Princeton museum on Italian list of suspicious antiquities (11/3/05)
Getty board forms special committee to investigate acquisition of antiquities and use of tax-exempt funds (11/3/05)
Italians move from Getty to Met in search of looted art (11/3/05)
The puzzle of Getty curator Marion True (11/2/05)
Italy claims proof that "hot pot" at Met was looted (10/28/05)
Egypt tightens antiquities law (10/28/05)
Were six stolen paintings sacrificed for one £18 million Cézanne? (10/28/05)
UK Culture Minister David Lammy LLM '97 tells museums to avoid accidentally acquiring stolen art (10/26/05)
Philadelphia-based art crime unit patrols the art world (10/25/05)
Greek officials demand return of Getty antiquities (10/25/05)
Getty CEO sets things straight (10/24/05)
Life in prison for Egypt's former antiquities director (10/24/05)
Imagine a world without copyright (10/24/05)
Christie's and Sotheby's on the champagne trail (10/24/05)
Terrorism funded by stolen cultural property (10/17/05)
Who owns the space around you? (10/17/05)
Smithsonian sells the names of two museums (10/17/05)
Forgeries, murders, deceit continue to intrigue 20 years later (10/15/05)
Iraqi archaeologists protest proposed constitution (10/15/05)
China's military mounts global assault on $1 billion art market (10/13/05)
Canada leads fight for cultural diversity convention - US opposes (10/10/05)
Republican panel recommends ending NEA & PBS (10/10/05)
The impact of Harvard (10/10/05)
New law permits British museums to return human remains (10/6/05)
Restorers work to conserve art battered by Katrina (10/5/05)
Cambodia's heritage for sale cheap (10/5/05)
NEA chief attacks international culture pact (10/3/05)
Mortgage loan arranged by antiquities supplier leads to resignation of Getty curator (10/3/05)
Protecting the world's art treasures (10/2/05)
Theft of artwork is a big-bucks business (10/2/05)
Collector finds his stolen art headed for auction (9/30/05)
Newly discovered Mayan tablets identify major source of looted artifacts (9/29/05)
Court stops Renoir's great-grandson from selling unauthprized reproductions of Renoir sculptures (9/28/05)
Former head of Metropolitan Museum proposes reforms for Getty (9/27/05)
Accused map thief may forego plans for small New England town (9/27/05)
Settlement approved in "Gold Train" case (9/27/05)
Museum lawyers say half of Getty's masterpieces bought from suspect dealers (9/26/05)
Justice Scalia at Juilliard defends government's right to deny funds for art it does not support (9/26/05)
Russian police search for more than 48,000 stolen artworks (9/26/05)
Two firms sue Botero for interfering with their efforts to market reproductions of his work (9/26/05)
Tate cancels display to avoid offending Muslims (9/26/05)
Virginia museum to return Nazi-looted art to Poland (9/26/05)
Documents show Getty had signs acquisitions were possibley looted (9/26/05)
Customs officials seize over 300 ancient Peruvian artefacts smuggled into US (9/24/05)
US considers Chinese request for import restrictions (9/22/05)
Stolen artifact turns up at auction 30 years after theft (9/21/05)
Legal battle continues over Warhol painting (9/20/05)
New Orleans Museum under lock and guard (9/19/05)
High-tech looters pillage Mediterranean shipwrecks (9/19/05)
Architectural plagiarism not always bad (9/19/05)
Chicago's architectural treasures in danger according to Landmarks Council (9/19/05)
Tomb raiders strike gold in Macedonia (9/17/05)
Sting operation in Copenhagen nets stolen Rembrandt (9/16/05)
International Committee of the Blue Shield - Red Cross for cultural heritage (9/15/05)
The International Committee of the Blue Shield statement on Hurricane Katrina (9/15/05)
Americans for the Arts establishes emergency relief fund (9/15/05)
Dutch bank ABN-AMRO pulls out of art fund investment business (9/15/05)
Tell-all book due out on eBay art fraud case (9/15/05)
"Cultural genocide" in the name of Islam (9/14/05)
400-year-old maps stolen from British Library (9/13/05)
Underwater thieves arrested by Matla police (9/13/05)
Archaeologists and dealers spar over U.S.-Italian art accord (9/9/05)
Web cartoonists face jail after lampoon of leader goes too far (9/9/05)
Boston considers expanded public art program (9/8/05)
Getty withholds documents from Italian prosecutors of its chief antiquities curator (9/8/05)
Renoir’s great grandson embroiled in “$1 billion art fraud” (9/8/05)
UNESCO asserts trafficking in art objects next only to narcotics trade (9/7/05)
Museums tally the cultural damage wrought by flooding (9/5/05)
Hurricane Katrina and the museums (9/4/05)
Professor still professing he is an artist not a bioterrorist (9/1/05)
Fractional gifts let museum and collector enjoy a work of art (9/1/05)
New Rand Corporation report shows undue influence on value of art by small number of affluent buyers who buy for investment (9/1/05)
New Rand Corporation report (9/1/05)
The fate of Hitler's art collection (9/1/05)
Might architects finally get copyright protection? (9/1/05)
Boston eyes percent for public art program (9/1/05)
Tibet's treasures plundered (8/30/05)
UK to lend stolen artefacts to EA for six months (8/30/05)
LA Times questions Getty Trust (8/30/05)
Art theft surges in France (8/30/05)
The Axum Obelisk returns, but some still grumble (8/30/05)
Major Australian artist accused of being a major art thief (8/20/05)
Italy moves to protect its heritage from terror (8/20/05)
Summary of the Forbes Smiley affair and recent thefts of rare maps (8/20/05)
Curse of "The Da Vinci Code" threatens European churches (8/14/05)
Seven convicted in Cairo for antiquities smuggling (8/14/05)
EBay bidders find way to fix highest bid (8/14/05)
Banksy sprays pieces on West Bank security wall (8/12/05)
Orthodox Jewish man sues photographer for cut of photos secretly taken of him plus a ban on future displays (8/10/05)
$6.5 million settlement reached over Picasso looted by Nazis (8/10/05)
Swift-Find online registry to compete with Art Loss Register? (8/9/05)
Story of the Iraq Museum (8/7/05)
Burri foundation and artist's brother-in-law dispute ownership of Arte Povera artist Alberto Burri's estate (8/4/05)
SAFE supports extension of import restrictions on Italian antiquities (8/4/05)
Turks file suit against British Museum for return of Halikarnassos Mausoleum (8/3/05)
California AG opens wide-ranging inquiry into financial practices at the Getty (8/3/05)
Trade grows in looted Tibetan artefacts (8/2/05)
Appeals court refuses to order removal of criticized statue at university (8/2/05)
The high cost of retaining cultural property (8/1/05)
Web page for fetish photographer's lawsuit (8/1/05)
Federal court declines to hold CDA unconsitutional because photographer self-censored her web site (8/1/05)
Britain reviews law prohibiting return of Nazi-looted art (7/30/05)
Collector sues gallery to get back paintings (7/28/05)
Court action after Renoir archive fails to sell at auction (7/28/05)
Corcoran director resigns after trustees abandon Gehry expansion (7/28/05)
Germany still hopes Russia will release art taken after WWII (7/28/05)
French curator implicated in thefts from Bibliothèque Nationale (7/26/05)
Trial of Getty curator postponed (7/26/05)
Egypt ties visas for archaeologists to return of antiquities (7/26/05)
Detroit decides to close arts department (7/25/05)
California Lawyers for the Arts include anti-Bush art in exhibit (7/25/05)
Art guild fires director after appearance on "Daily Show" (7/25/05)
Tax advantages of fractional gifts (7/25/05)
Israel may take priceless artefacts when it leaves Gaza (7/22/05)
Art in the age of terrorism: Schneider's installation for St Mark's Square (7/22/05)
Britain may change law in order to return Nazi-looted art (7/22/05)
Egypt mounts campaign to recover five most precious artefacts from foreign museums (7/22/05)
NY art dealetr sentenced to 41 months in prison for art forgery scheme (7/22/05)
Aboriginal "crown jewels" returned to British Museum (7/13/05)
Art dealer charged in thefts from Yale of rare maps (7/12/05)
Boston artists fight to keep their lofts (7/11/05)
Cultural sensitivites are censoring museums (7/9/05)
Should Vatican sell art to keep US parishes open? (7/9/05)
Artifacts from Sikh rare book collection may have been taken by staff (7/9/05)
Court grants exclusive salvage rights to sunken treasure ship (7/9/05)
Authenticity questioned of 32 recently discovered Jackson Pollock works (7/6/05)
Demolition crew dismantles Checkpoint Charlie memorial (7/6/05)
US lawsuits pursue lost art (7/5/05)
Should MFA rent out its art? (7/4/05)
Independent Sector issues recommendations to strengthen transparency, governance, and accountability of nonprofits (7/4/05)
What to do with Yemeni antiquities? (7/3/05)
World Monument Fund for first time names an entire country -Iraq - to its list of endangered sites (7/2/05)
Aussie art in Islamic morality hoax (7/1/05)
Russian practices on cultural property defended (7/1/05)
Some galleries require buyers to sign restrictive contracts when buying hot contemporary art (6/30/05)
Report published on the state of cultural heritage in Iraq: 1991-2003 [pdf] (6/27/05)
Photographer David Hamilton's images declared indecent by Bristish court (6/27/05)
US millionaire linked to looted relics (6/27/05)
Authenticating African art (6/27/05)
Looted Iraqi art said to fund terrorists (6/24/05)
Former Scotland Yard art cop says Whitey Bulger is hiding stolen Gardner art in Ireland (6/23/05)
World Monuments Fund includes Mexico City's historic center and all of Iraq among the 100 most endangered cultural sites (6/23/05)
Ireland may resume taxing artists (6/21/05)
No more thefts from "Fortress Munch" (6/21/05)
UK Museum Association issues a report on hidden collections (6/16/05)
Dubious donors pose problems for nonprofits (6/13/05)
Oxford don asks "What good are the arts?" (6/13/05)
Photo labs hesitate to print pictures that look too professional (6/13/05)
Update from Director General of Iraq National Museum (6/13/05)
Artists and galleries sue Momart for art destroyed in fire (6/13/05)
Judge halts energy project in Montana after failure to consult with local tribe (6/11/05)
Gregor Schneider's project for the Biennale, "Cube Venice," has been blocked by city authorities (6/10/05)
Mandela sues former lawyer for selling unauthorized art (6/9/05)
Are new found paintings by Pollock or not? How can you tell? (6/7/05)
Boston Philanthropist entangled in dispute over Nazi-era art (6/7/05)
Greek curator on trial for exhibiting obscene work offensive to Greek Orthodox Church (6/6/05)
Inheritance battle may lead to liquidation of Wildenstein collection (6/6/05)
Swiss act to limit traffic of illicit goods (6/1/05)
Profiling professional art thieves (5/31/05)
The 10 Most Faked Artists (5/28/05)
Court rules that British Museum has no authority to return Nazi-looted artlooted art (5/28/05)
Surrealist paintings tied up in Mexican court (5/23/05)
West coast art collectors may evade taxes on out-of-state purchases (5/23/05)
World’s biggest art collector embezzled millions of pounds from the State of Qatar using fraudulent invoices (5/23/05)
Senior Getty curator indicted in Rome for illegally acquiring antiquities (5/21/05)
Scottish museum covers up purchase of fake (5/19/05)
Altmann and Austria settle on arbitration (5/19/05)
Russian exhibition of trophy art upsets Germans (5/17/05)
Forgery claims rock Korean art galleries (5/17/05)
Times find's Chanel show at Met malodorous (5/16/05)
How rowdy schoolboys knocked a leg off one of the Elgin Marbles (5/16/05)
Disputes wreck Kosovo monuments (5/14/05)
Should Africa reclaim its stolen treasures? (5/14/05)
Is Belgium the new art smuggler's paradise? (5/13/05)
Bacon Estate forces museum to change exhibition plans (5/12/05)
Turkish dam project threatens historic site (5/12/05)
Holocaust lawyer to sue Hungary over stolen art (5/12/05)
Cassirer Suit Highlights Failures on Art Restitution (5/12/05)
Californian files US suit against museum in Madrid to recover Pissarro said to be looted by Nazis (5/11/05)
Col. Matthew Bogdanos develops web site on looting of Iraq Museum (5/9/05)
Senator Kennedy and colleagues form caucus to promote arts (5/9/05)
Sotheby's agrees not to deal in art confiscated by Castro government (5/2/05)
Three art fairs in Chicago step on each other toes on their way to court (5/2/05)
Seattle thieves hold show of stolen art (5/2/05)
New York Public Library art sale criticized (5/2/05)
Russian display of "trophy art" strains Russo-German relations (5/2/05)
Re-erecting Axum obelisk could threaten newly discovered royal tombs (5/2/05)
Do antique dealers preserve the past or steal it? (4/29/05)
Pennsylvania Supreme Court approves move of Barnes collection (4/29/05)
British government scraps plans for stolen art database (4/29/05)
Stolen Munch masterpieces incinerated! (4/29/05)
Currency is her canvas (4/27/05)
Police wary of teen death shrines (4/26/05)
Artworks comprise pension fund for artists (4/25/05)
Historically unprecedented art prices in New York (4/19/05)
Axum obelisk finally returns to Ethiopia (4/19/05)
Smithsonian stores do booming business (4/18/05)
Is scratching cars art? (4/18/05)
Was Michelangelo a forger? (4/18/05)
Uproar over sale of antique desk worth $10,000,000 (4/17/05)
US Cultural Property Advisory Committee holds hearings on China's request for help in protecting its cultural heritage (4/17/05)
Parliament says art world needs code of conduct (4/11/05)
Will resale royalties for painters and sculptors hurt the British art market? (4/11/05)
Arrest made in Munch heist (4/11/05)
Rem Koolhaas's Casa da Musica in Oporto opens to rave reviews (4/10/05)
Boston arts renaissance (4/10/05)
Should city release individual values of works in city's museum? (4/10/05)
Theft of Munch's "Scream" possibly a diversion for later bank robbery (4/8/05)
Former space museum director indicted for selling items loaned to museum by NASA (4/8/05)
100 exact copies of masterpieces to be sold at "L'Art du faux" exhibition in Dubai (4/7/05)
Federal court in California to hear forfeiture case against Chicago collector of Picasso painting looted in WWII (4/7/05)
Wealthy Irish artists may lose tax-free status on their artistic income (4/4/05)
Top of ancient Iraq minaret blown up (4/1/05)
Art dealer leaves museum in lurch? (3/30/05)
Chicago stops tourists taking snapshots of "public" art; the city owns the copyright (3/30/05)
Yale graduate sues over design of Freedom Tower (3/28/05)
Canada establishes authentication committee for famous first nations artist (3/28/05)
Russia debates whether blasphemous art should be crimninal (3/28/05)
Canton Symphony sheds clothes in a risque fund-raising calendar (3/25/05)
Barnes may go bust before appeal concludes (3/25/05)
Graffiti artist smuggles own work into museums (3/25/05)
In NPR actions, were all things considered? (3/22/05)
How the recent flurry of faked artifacts will change the face of biblical archaeology. (3/20/05)
Churchill's Family Attacks BBC on Sculpture (3/18/05)
Dutch family claims painting from Montreal museum looted by Nazis. (3/18/05)
Israel Museum gives back Degas looted by the Nazis. (3/17/05)
Breakthrough on major Holocaust claim (3/17/05)
World's biggest art collector arrested in Qatar (3/17/05)
Veteran art-news reporter dropped by NPR after MoMA complaint (3/17/05)
The Mysterious Malevich Donation (3/17/05)
Some in Thailand say Art Museum crown was looted (3/17/05)