NewsPerformance art
How one artist is using theatre to draw attention to the EU asylum problem
Staging of a refugee trial asking audience to determine the fate of an asylum seeker poses questions about the 'theatrification' of migration issues
InterviewPolitics
Drawing with the ashes of Isis-ravaged buildings: Piers Secunda on the art of destruction
Artist’s works on iconoclasm in Mosul are currently on show at the Imperial War Museum in London
NewsWar & Conflict
Art in the time of airstrikes: Yemeni artists urge international donors for support
Symposium at the British Museum, part of the Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab culture, will include artists from war-torn Yemen and Syria
NewsConservation & Preservation
Aliph global protection fund announces 14 projects across multiple war zones
The Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, Syria’s Raqqa Museum and Mosul libraries all safeguarded
NewsMonuments
Designs for new D-Day monument in Normandy will go on sale at Masterpiece
David Williams-Ellis' sculpture for the British Normandy Memorial will be unveiled today by May and Macron
ReviewBook Shorts
Book on artists’ opposition to the Vietnam War
Part of the 1960s US anti-war movement, artists then had nothing like the impact they have today
NewsNazi loot
Max Stern: dealer's heirs still fighting for looted art justice
With works from the forced liquidation of his gallery by the Nazis still regularly turning up in Germany, two current restitution claims by his heirs could have major ramifications for all those seeking to recover looted art
NewsSyria
New London gallery shows work by only-known artist to have worked secretly under Islamic State
The Stories Art Gallery champions artists who take a non-political approach in their work to challenge violent stereotypes of Syria
NewsLondon
How the UK has revived its Monuments Men
The CPPU consists of a solitary lieutenant-colonel, but he is recruiting
NewsExhibitions
Art made from Isis bullet hole damage goes on show for first joint UK project between Iraq and Kurdistan
Piers Secunda’s exhibition on destroyed ancient Assyrian objects is part of ongoing attempts to bring peace to a divided region
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Starry Night is held by Russian government
Van Gogh drawing had been folded in half in 1945 to fit inside a suitcase
NewsArtists
Artists in conflict zones get a global platform with new Ruya Maps initiative
Programme to launch in October with show by Venezuelan artist Pepe López in London chapel
NewsConservation & Preservation
Aleppo's reconstruction 'deserves international resources'
Aga Khan Trust for Culture calls for condemnation of destruction to be reinforced by help on the ground
NewsConservation & Preservation
Damaged art undergoes intensive care in Berlin’s Bode Museum
The institution is using funds from a private foundation to restore works scarred by war
NewsHeritage
Icom unveils Yemen red list at Metropolitan Museum in bid to halt illegal trade of artefacts
Yemen’s cultural heritage is at serious risk as war and famine ravage the country
NewsOpenings
Wende Museum of Cold War artefacts spills its secrets in California
More than 100,000 Soviet and Eastern European objects find new home in former Armory
NewsWar & Conflict
Letter from Yemen: artist speaks out about his country’s 'forgotten war'
Ahmed Jahaf describes what it is like to live through catastrophic conflict
BlogIn the frame
Here’s looking at the ‘real’ and ‘reel’ Casablanca
NewsVorticist
Sotheby’s expect First World War painting by Nevinson to make £1m
Last sold 50 years ago, A Dawn depicts French troops marching to trenches through Flanders in 1914
NewsExhibitions
Imperial War Museum explores artists’ responses to war and terror after 9/11
Show of more than 40 artists includes Jenny Holzer, Grayson Perry and Gerhard Richter
NewsWar & Conflict
Iraqi troops in push to recapture old city of Mosul
Heritage bodies face major task in saving historic buildings when Isil extremists are ousted
NewsWar & Conflict
British Museum-trained Iraqi archaeologist assesses Isil destruction of Nimrud
Ancient Assyrian site was almost completely demolished by extremists