A spokesman for Traffic, the leading researchers of trade in endangered species, says it is the Asian market that drives the poaching, not the Western market

Excavation tells a poignant story of an unfortunate Roman

It’s affordable, good quality, unspeculative—and the wine is great

Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers

France's latest deal with the Kingdom reveals the close connection between culture and foreign affairs

Norman Foster is among the roster of international architects

Emilia Kabakov discusses the duo’s past in the USSR and their aim to stop it defining how they are perceived as artists

Anna Somers Cocks, founding editor and chairman, looks back

Stop the press!

This is the view of a former Getty chief, who says the problems of the Serenissima are a paradigm for other historic cities

Minds from the Middle Eastern art world and beyond discussed topics such as urban planning and art and ecology

Back in 1982, these ceramic specialists realised that top curators and hot research brought in the collectors. Today, they’re still keeping the flame of knowledge alive

Buccaneering, brilliant, art-loving—he created the power of Sotheby’s (and Christie’s learned by imitation)

The splendid Nabatean site of Mada’in Saleh may be opened to tourists

MoMa hosts announcement of his Misk Art Institute, led by artist Ahmed Mater

New London show has received glowing reviews but there is one conspicuous absentee

Digital technologies are at the heart of a declaration by major museums and heritage organisations to record and sometimes reproduce works of art

The Google Cultural Institute’s We Wear Culture fashion stories are its latest museum collaboration, its director Amit Sood tells us.

The pharaonic new museum will not make up for misguided policies

Recently identified buyer of Leonardo's Salvator Mundi is planning a pavilion at the Venice Biennale, art teaching in schools, international exhibitions, archaeology and virtual reality

Gesture consolidates close political alliance between Saudi Arabia and the UAE

The Italian government’s latest decision is in hock to the port’s own interests

Anna Somers Cocks on the revelations published in the New Yorker magazine

A French study of the Gulf museums sees them as the Versailles of the sheikhs—a step towards autocracy

Russian art patron Igor Tsukanov has created a show at the Saatchi Gallery about artists who have risked protesting against conditions in Russia since 1991

Improvements are well documented, but rules are still inadequately enforced

Art dealer Thaddaeus Ropac and curator Maya Allison tell us how the nation’s creative ambitions have blossomed. Plus: Silver Lion-winning musician and artist Hassan Khan on his Abu Dhabi Art performance

Nudes? non-Islamic religions? Questioning the nature of God?

As Abu Dhabi Art fair opens, we speak to the Saudi artists Manal Al Dowayan and Ahmed Mater. Plus: Iraq's Dia Azzawi on creating the Arab world's Guernica

Is the UAE now the art capital of the Middle East?