controversy

December 8, 2015
The Mona Lisa is once again making headlines.

February 26, 2015
British researchers have attributed two bronzes to Michelangelo Buonarroti.

February 17, 2015
In October 2013, a painting kept in a Swiss bank vault was claimed by some to be a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

March 9, 2014
The so-called Athlete of Fano, a Greek bronze found off the coast of Italy by fisherman in 1964, is the subject of controversy between the Italian government and the Getty museum, which acquired the statue in 1977.

February 16, 2014
Cristina Ruiz reports in the Art Newspaper on continuing issues for the legacy of artist Giorgio De Chirico .

November 27, 2013
Recently restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla have stirred the debate about whether women were leaders in the early Christian church.

November 2, 2013
Just because a city is impoverished does not mean its people are not worthy of great art

October 10, 2013
A painting kept in a Swiss bank vault is claimed by some to be a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

October 6, 2013
Ermanno Rivetti reports in The Art Newspaper that a visitor to the recently closed “Manet: Return to Venice” has filed a complaint that museum authorities damaged the Doge’s Palace by drilling holes in its walls for a climate control system.

August 23, 2013
Tina Lepri reports in the Art Newspaper on uncertain expansion plans for the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, near Florence, asking the question: Why build an €8m expansion for a museum that only makes €30 a day?