The Art Newspaper

Controversial Caravaggio to be unveiled in London

Questions about attribution remain over The Cardsharps, once owned by the late Italian Baroque specialist Denis Mahon

Published online: 28 March 2013

Warning over Qatar’s human rights record

UK museums’ close ties questioned after poet imprisoned for 15 years

Published online: 27 March 2013

Massachusetts museum merger draws fire from art community

Planned closure of cash-strapped Higgings Armory met with criticism

Published online: 22 March 2013

Two works at centre of UK censorship row end up in Amsterdam museum

Saudi Arabian artist’s work was removed from London show

Published online: 29 November 2012

Documenta ignores Kassel’s bloody history, artists say

Weapons are still being produced in the city that hosts one of the largest art exhibitions in the world

Published online: 13 September 2012

A fictional trial is busted by real police in Russia

Truth is often stranger than fiction in Russia, and last Sunday was no exception when immigration police and later Cossacks in furry black...

Ai Weiwei takes to the stage

A new play, "#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei", which opens at the Hampstead Theatre in London on 11 April, should provide new insights into...

Dictator moves on in Mexico

A sculpture of the late head of state of Azerbaijan given to Mexico City and unveiled last August, which led to diplomatic kerfuffle...

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