The crypt of the baroque Frauenkirche was reopened last month, with an altar by Anish Kapoor

Professor John Malcolm Russell's personal connection to the objects left him well placed to recognise them in images from sales

As recalled by Dick Kingzett of Agnew’s

Palazzo Grassi's “Greeks in the West” exhibition is pulling in the visitors

The consignor of the piece remains unknown

In a lecture given at London's Institute of Archaeology, Dr Lamia al Galiani-Werr drove home the urgency of the issue

Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment

Unless a small Suffolk church can raise £168,000 to conserve one of the earliest English paintings, it may have to sell it

Peace was celebrated in Europe fifty years ago. As The Art Newspaper reaches its fiftieth issue this month, we look at the art of a war-torn world

The meeting produced revelations, but little hope that the return of looted art will be eased

Even after treaties have been signed, legal wrangles between Germany and Russia persist

Rumours of a Sotheby’s valuation have encouraged talk of auction

30% of the movable cultural property in Croatia needs emergency treatment

The piece was taken during World War II

Continuing a practice from World War I, Howson will respond to the ongoing conflict in the region

The architect, whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims, is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression. Here he describes the war fever that has gripped his country and lays the blame on the intellectuals

More than 4,000 museum items missing according to Director General of the Iraqi Antiquities Department

About 150 items from the collection will be displayed at the exhibition

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

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

Follows disappearance of jewels, manuscripts

Report of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments, Croatian Ministry of Education and Culture, with information collected by 5 October 1991

Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks

After decades of pretending to know nothing about it, Mainz University library reluctantly returns Nazi loot of precious books

The looted manuscript has now been fully reproduced and described

The Minister for Education and Culture sends list of destruction to Unesco and invokes the 1954 Hague Convention

As US troopers praise the Lord, reports of damage in Iraq remain unconfirmed

Glasnost has unveiled the ill kept secret of thousands of works of art, of archives and libraries taken to the USSR

The temple bell was taken from a Japanese island by American marines at the end of World War II

Attack on ziggurat stopped by unknown American officer