Artists say they are under pressure to tone down their work after Associated Press removes images of controversial pieces

Protesters demand protection for cultural heritage as clashes turn violent

Created in consultation with the Russian Society for the Blind, Nadezhda Gubina and her husband Igor Vozyakov have created a didactic and tactile exhibition

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

Plus, Stephen Fry as Pope Innocent X

How the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries have dealt with our ignorance of Christianity

Paul Fryer's work was installed in the city of Gap over Easter weekend

The forgery enquiry has lasted four years, so far

The news comes as unexpected due to suppression of religion freedom in the nation

The fate of Ryazan's Art and History Museum could set a precedent for restitution

Conservation and connoisseurship joined at the altar

The production of works for garth and home

Will Cavallini or Giotto reign supreme?

After sacrilege and violent death the artist whom the moral majority (minority?) love to hate, is now into explicit sex

The exhibition contains some stunning examples of Lorenzo Lotto’s approach to portraiture, which is to show the private rather than the public individual

The monastery has been forbidden to women since 1060 and remains barely accessible to laymen, making this public exhibition an opportunity of a lifetime

£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece

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

Via many points in the US

The official position of the Russian Orthodox Church, as explained by its spokesman

The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building

The exhibition at he Pinacoteca Civica di Palazzo Arringo is open until 15 October

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