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

Hella Mewis, who works to promote young Iraqi artists, was abducted yesterday by unidentified men in the centre of the city

The vessels, containing 2,600-year-old mummified internal organs, are due to be sold in Munich tomorrow

Twenty-six objects looted from Abomey Palace to return to Benin, Omar Tall’s sword to be transferred to Senegal

Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says he hopes the organisation will no longer exist in five years

Former concentration camps are being increasingly drawn into culture wars by “normal-looking” people challenging guides and disrupting tours

With 2,000 employees, the foundation is the biggest arts employer in Germany

The view of Dresden's Zwinger moat had been returned to the heirs of Max Emden and will now be offered for sale in London on 28 July

The 360-degree work by the Iranian architect Yadegar Asisi will be displayed in a rotunda on the banks of the Seine

Move means the venue can continue to operate as Berlin’s main contemporary art museum

Sculpture by Latvian artist Aigars Bikse is in a prominent spot in front of the National Museum of Art

Exhibition of Berlin city history is to be among the first to open

Exhibited from today at Dresden’s Kupferstich-Kabinett, the picture of an old man is the only undisputed drawing by the Dutch Old Master that survives

London institution was criticised for proclaiming that it "stands in solidarity with the Black community" while continuing to resist calls to restitute colonial-era loot

When British troops plundered the Royal Palace of Benin in the 19th century, at least 3,000 objects were dispersed internationally. A new online database is bringing them together

"People are hungry for art in the original and the online viewing room can’t replace the personal experience,” the dealer says

Package aims to counter “severest economic crisis in the history of the federal republic”