What is the point of restoring modern art? Is it reasonable to treat a Rauschenberg as if it were a Leonardo?

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Highlights include the “Vitruvian Man”

Currently at the Munich Kunsthalle, the exhibition will next move to the Edinburgh National Gallery of Modern Art

Corporation to drop arts sponsorship programme

Douglas Cooper v. the Knight Commander of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle: round one

Underappreciated in Britain, the Sackler Galleries mobilise for this modern master

The inaugural edition focuses on works from the 1960s

The show will proceed to to the Guggenheim despite confusion arising from a lack of transparent communication between Russian and US committee members

Excavations suggest that the ten-year war was fought some distance away from Priam's rock

Attempts to control spread of fakes with thousands seized in New York

It is pointless to pretend that the commercial art world and the worlds of research do not interpenetrate each other. Here we look at the relationship, present and past, and ask ourselves, in what respect is the art historian any different from the lawyer who sells his opinion?

National Slide Library transfer to Leicester to proceed in spite of protests

The Amsterdam Old Master drawings may be swapped for others owned by the van Beuningen Museum in Russia

Director does not foresee restitution to Germany

Old historical ties revived as the Kunsthistorisches Museum, with government blessing, devises a conservation package

The buy was demonstrative of the gallery's commitment to acquiring works from that period

An eclectic selection of memento mori

A French magazine suggests that the Adriatic city should be put in the charge of the EC, echoing a proposal by the European Commissioner for the Environment

Heiner Stachelhaus' book on the German artist leaves a lot to be desired

Talking about his readymades and his most complicated work “The large glass”, now in Philadelphia, Duchamp reflects on how little he meant to people in the late Fifties, when the painterliness of Abstract Expressionism ruled

A harrowing look into the damage wreaked during the last seven months

But would we even think it beautiful if it came to light?

New rules and guidelines for archaeologists around the world.

Imperial cathedral needs DM40 million after further damage was found to the building and its furnishings

Grab and smash operation on 11 November

Raphael’s “Madonna of the Pinks” has now been firmly reattributed after cleaning

While for a time its fate hung in the balance due to insurance costs, the exhibition is now set to begin in Barcelona

Open until 15 March, the show may serve as an introduction to the sculptor for a post-war generation unfamiliar with his legacy

Leonardo da Vinci showdown comes to the National Gallery of Scotland