Unesco and citizen action groups have campaigned for the move for years

An exhibition in Split shows that being 1,600 years old does not take you out of politics

Of the 53 sites on the list—which will be reviewed at a committee meeting next month—only four are in the West

Venetians are leaving the city in thousands because rents are unaffordable, while more than 11% of social housing stands empty

The Italian government must intervene against powerful forces opposed to change

Conservation experts and lobby group launch a Green Paper to put Europe’s heritage at the heart of the EU’s greening policy

UAE’s withdrawal from a disastrous and costly war in Yemen means it can refocus on an ambitious cultural agenda including the opening of Zayed National Museum

On 25 March, the city began celebrating 1,600 years of its history—but the date is somewhat fishy

Museum's director Tristram Hunt says that government help has not been enough to cover all costs incurred by pandemic and admits “curators will be more stretched”

The 165 submissions to Sir John Soane’s Museum show that drawing is far from dead

Luigi Brugnaro's "entrepreneurial" decision violates Venice's historic agreement with Italian state to keep the landmark open to the public

Top Indian sculpture dealer warns against a too rigid interpretation of the 1970 Unesco Convention

From a steam cog railway to the baroque Venetian palazzo abandoned by the Armenians , Europa Nostra chooses candidates for its 2021 Seven Most Endangered Sites list

New organisation, Our World Heritage, is putting Unesco's feet to the fire

The mobile barriers have at last held back a flood, but they will not be raised to protect the low-lying parts of town

Current editor Alison Cole talks to founding editor and long-time editor-in-chief Anna Somers Cocks about the origins of the newspaper, the fundamentals of its journalism and the challenges the visual arts world has faced

A team of scientists are digitally mapping the entire island of San Giorgio in a mission to preserve the sinking city as combinations of 0 and 1

Eike Schmidt says up to a thousand works are languishing in state-run stores all over Italy

The fire is now under control, but the mayor warns people to stay indoors and keep their windows closed

The Art Newspaper is co-hosting a live YouTube discussion on digital innovations and the preservation of cultural heritage on 1-3 May

Art history removes the numinous from art. At the Vatican’s Covid-19 blessing we saw it invoked again

Contrary to assurances, the MSC Opera was sailing under its own power, reports the navy

The Art Newspaper's founder-editor Anna Somers Cocks on the impact of Covid-19 on Turin, where she is in lockdown

We speak to our journalists Anna Somers Cocks and Lisa Movius about their experiences of lockdown. Plus, we begin a new feature—Lonely Works—where we look at individual works of art that are now hanging unseen in galleries. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

He designed many prestigious buildings in Italy and internationally and led the visual arts section of the Venice Biennale twice in the 1970s

The Vatican Museums celebrate Raphael’s 500th anniversary by hanging his tapestries in the Sistine Chapel for which they were created

Italian judge said his opinion of the 2013 show was based on his “proven and recognised competence and experience”

Almost 60 works by artists including Rembrandt, Annibale Carracci and Sebastiano del Piombo will go on show at the Millennium Gallery

As a cache of communist pieces stored near Beeskow castle for 25 years is being rehabilitated, the market for such work is growing

New York-based Wildenstein-Plattner Institute will digitise fabled Wildenstein archive of sale catalogues, letters and experts’ notes