Religious art
New culture war takes root in US as major news outlet censors art
Artists say they are under pressure to tone down their work after Associated Press removes images of controversial pieces
Libyan shrines under attack as militant Islamists target Muslim mausoleums
Protesters demand protection for cultural heritage as clashes turn violent
Dom Icony brings icons to the blind in central Moscow
Created in consultation with the Russian Society for the Blind, Nadezhda Gubina and her husband Igor Vozyakov have created a didactic and tactile exhibition
Widow and ex-wife battle over Russian collector Mikhail de Boire’s icons
When his former wife gave part of $30m collection to the Pushkin Museum, his last wife called in lawyers to determine the fate of 75 icons from north Russia
Art in the media: Alastair Sooke inspires, Matthew Collings takes a swipe at Tracey Emin and Martin Creed fails to enlighten
Plus, Stephen Fry as Pope Innocent X
No, not Madonna the singer in the V&A's new Medieval and Renaissance galleries
How the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries have dealt with our ignorance of Christianity
Pinault’s electric chair Christ upsets the French; black version to be shown in London
Paul Fryer's work was installed in the city of Gap over Easter weekend
Judge orders conclusion to case on the legitimacy of the ossuary which may have belonged to Jesus' half-brother
The forgery enquiry has lasted four years, so far
Iran's Saba Cultural Institute announces Russian Orthodox icons show
The news comes as unexpected due to suppression of religion freedom in the nation
Orthodox Church seeks control of Moscow icon museum
The fate of Ryazan's Art and History Museum could set a precedent for restitution
V&A sends stolen monstrance on long-term loan to Spain
The 16th-century silver object had been taken from a church in Toro in 1890
The story of the Thornham Parva retable shows how technology is increasingly influencing art history
Conservation and connoisseurship joined at the altar
Cavallini discovery reopens superiority debate between Quattrocento Roman and Florentine schools
Will Cavallini or Giotto reign supreme?
Interview with Andres Serrano: Mining the seamy side for all it’s worth
After sacrilege and violent death the artist whom the moral majority (minority?) love to hate, is now into explicit sex
The National Gallery provides a grand overview of Lorenzo Lotto, the 16th century painter with a still undefined image
The exhibition contains some stunning examples of Lorenzo Lotto’s approach to portraiture, which is to show the private rather than the public individual
Mysterious religious treasures from Mount Athos go on display in Thessaloniki
The monastery has been forbidden to women since 1060 and remains barely accessible to laymen, making this public exhibition an opportunity of a lifetime
The Westminster Retable: technically daring and now in danger
£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece
Save a medieval rarity spared by the Reformation and Civil War: Thornham Parva retable in urgent need of conservation
Unless a small Suffolk church can raise £168,000 to conserve one of the earliest English paintings, it may have to sell it
Holy Russia at the V&A, touring exhibition is repackaged for the UK
Via many points in the US
Patriarch Aleksey II of Moscow and All Russia on restitution: "Places of worship first, museums second"
The official position of the Russian Orthodox Church, as explained by its spokesman
World War II ends for a small town in eastern Germany as treasures are finally returned
Church valuables were dispersed in 1945, reunited in 1992, and return home in 1993
Tug-of-war over baroque church of San Luca in Genoa as baroque gem falls into ruin
The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building
New exhibition on Cola dell’ Amatrice, a Raphaelesque shrinking violet
The exhibition at he Pinacoteca Civica di Palazzo Arringo is open until 15 October
Nazi 'degenerate art' show to be reconstructed in LA
An irony that the American art world will enjoy after the Mapplethorpe censorship row: the N.E.A. is sponsoring a partial replay of the Nazi “Entartete Kunst” exhibition of 1937