The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project will begin with a pilot scheme focusing on the Old Masters collection of Adolphe Schloss, which was seized by the Gestapo

More than 1,600 police officers take part in raids in Berlin to solve violent theft from Dresden’s Green Vault

Gardens of the Babelsberg Palace in Potsdam must be probed for undetonated explosives before further renovations can take place

More than 40 directors sign an open letter to regional governments saying museums should not be included in month-long coronavirus lockdown

Closing German museums would be “a hard blow for the institutions and society,” the country's museums association says

The show promises to be “one of the most spectacular” in the newly renovated museum's history

Mies van der Rohe’s steel-and-glass building is undergoing modernisation by David Chipperfield, including new air-conditioning, security, lighting and visitor facilities

The complaint also demands compensation for four further works by Mondrian no longer at the Krefeld museum

Sixty-three objects were sprayed with an oily liquid on 3 October at the Pergamon, Neues Museum and Alte Nationalgalerie

Measures agreed by government and states include a set of common standards for digital registers

The Golden Age work by Aelbert Cuyp was looted from Jacques Goudstikker and acquired by Hermann Göring

Signatories of the “Berlin Manifesto” include the Académie française and Arts Council England. It has been endorsed by Wim Wenders, Ken Loach and A. L. Kennedy among others

The artists' collaboration—first as teacher and student, then as a couple—is explored in a new exhibition at the Lenbachhaus in Munich

The report calls for a new panel to advise the minister on repatriations and a new provenance research centre

Three works are to be sold at Christie’s in Paris this month; further sales to follow

Plans include a show about ivory and a “critical approach” to colonial legacies

Missing for 75 years, the large marble head, one of the artist's best-known works, was uncovered by chance during construction work at Kunsthaus Dahlem

Head of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, responds to an expert panel’s call to dismantle Germany’s biggest arts body

His collection of works by Warhol, Twombly, Beuys and Kiefer is on long-term loan to the Berlin museums

From Berghain's lockdown exhibition to the Brücke Museum's Vivian Suter display, here's what to see in the reigning contemporary art hub this week

Human remains in museums have attracted widespread criticism

Art dealer Philipp Hainhofer's 16th-century "friendship book" contains inscriptions from Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II and Cosimo de’ Medici

Film aims to show “surveillance, ideological brainwashing, and brute determination used to control every aspect of society” by China’s leaders

As the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic, public campaigns around another virus are explored in an exhibition at the Folkwang Museum in Essen

Exhibition will recall the “intense and wonderful” 1990s fashion scene with photographs by Juergen Teller, Corinne Day and Karl Lagerfeld

As the Black Lives Matter movement goes global, museums face renewed demands to restitute artefacts plundered from Africa

“Studio Berlin” offers a way to circumvent the toughest door policy in the world and see works by Olafur Eliasson, Wolfgang Tillmans and Anne Imhof

Government plans to buy 150 works to help overcome the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic

Family of Gustav Arens also receive French government compensation for a Tintoretto painting and a Dutch landscape

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas voices “relief” at release of Hella Mewis, an arts manager living in Baghdad who works to promote young Iraqi artists