Catherine Hickley
Catherine Hickley is the Museums & Heritage Editor of The Art Newspaper
US museum criticises use of Gérôme’s Slave Market in German right-wing campaign
Anti-immigration party AfD is using provocative 19th-century work on its posters for the upcoming European elections
Bonn library recovers 600 books missing since the Second World War
Sotheby's assisted the return of the books, including 11 medieval manuscripts, which were found in Belgium
EU adopts new rules on cultural heritage imports
Regulation is designed to protect against smuggling and cut off a source of terrorist financing
Indigenous human remains returned to Australia by five German institutions
Australia is pursuing further repatriations from Germany, ambassador says
New Berlin exhibition exposes Emil Nolde’s Nazi ties
Show at the Hamburger Bahnhof explores how the German artist hid behind Hitler's "degenerate" label
Weimar—birthplace of Bauhaus—opens new museum dedicated to the influential design school
On the same day, the nearby Neues Museum Weimar will open a new permanent exhibition on early Modernism
Jewish Museum Berlin says it would no longer accept Sackler family donations
But the Sackler Staircase in the museum will keep its name
German art collective under investigation by state prosecutor
Zentrum für politische Schönheit sees artistic freedom under attack
Software billionaire plans to turn decaying Potsdam restaurant into museum for East German art
Hasso Plattner also plans to put his Impressionist works on permanent display in his Barberini Museum
Norwegian foundation bought $22m Kirchner that the Guggenheim restituted last year
Painting acquired for Oslo's National Gallery was bought at auction from heirs of Jewish dealer persecuted by the Nazis
Angela Merkel to open James Simon Galerie in Berlin
The entrance building to Museum Island is the German capital’s answer to the Louvre Pyramid
Panel urges return of Hitler’s Bellotto paintings to heirs of Jewish retail magnate
German advisory commission on Nazi-looted art says paintings in government collection should be restituted to the descendants of Max James Emden
Yoko Ono requests photographs of women's eyes for Leipzig retrospective
The exhibition opening in April at the Museum of Fine Arts is billed as the artist’s biggest-ever solo show in Germany
David Chipperfield on his design for West Bund Art Museum in Shanghai
The UK architect talks about working in China and the decline of its "funny-shaped" buildings
German cathedral returns Nazi-looted Dutch Old Master to heirs
Dutch Square is one of many paintings the Bavarian state returned to the families of the looters instead of the original Jewish owners after the war
Going, going, gone online: Europe's auction houses go digital
Online-only auctions may focus on the lower end of the market, but they are key to expanding clientele. We survey ten auction houses to find out their strategy
Okwui Enwezor, curator of Documenta and Venice Biennale, has died aged 55
Enwezor inspired a global, inclusive view of art history
Signac painting in Gurlitt hoard identified as Nazi loot
Restitution discussions with descendants of Jewish owner are underway
Culture ministers from 16 German states agree to repatriate artefacts looted in colonial era
Joint declaration is “a statement of historical responsibility,” says Culture Minister Monika Grütters
Dutch museums take initiative to repatriate colonial-era artefacts
Rijksmuseum opens talks with Sri Lanka, ethnology museums publish guidelines
Austrian exhibition to reveal story of Wolfgang Gurlitt, art dealer for the Nazis turned museum director
Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz confronts the legacy of its controversial first director, cousin of Hildebrand Gurlitt
Van Ham to auction 4,000 contemporary works from SØR Rusche collection
Dutch Old Masters in the retailer’s corporate collection are to be sold at Sotheby’s
Top six acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America
Berlin's Pergamonmuseum reveals the crowdsourced archive preserving Syria's war-torn heritage
New exhibition presents documents that lay the foundations for reconstruction of Aleppo and other sites ruined by civil war
Faking Hitler: the story behind a sinister market
Despite the failure of five of the dictator-to-be’s watercolours to sell at auction last month, a market for his works—both real and forged—remains
Burst of Venetian colour in largest show of Titians in Germany
Exhibition about the Venetian Renaissance at Frankfurt’s Städel Museum also includes works by Giovanni Bellini and Jacopo Tintoretto
Documenta appoints Indonesian artists cooperative Ruangrupa to lead 15th edition
Group says it will focus on urban structures in Kassel with links to other sites
Frankfurt museum acquires more than 200 ivory sculptures
Liebieghaus sculpture museum says the acquisition of Reiner Winkler’s collection is the largest in its history
European Parliament calls for restitution overhaul
Resolution includes proposals for database of looted art, support for provenance research and exemptions from statutes of limitations
Ai Weiwei’s contribution to Berlin movie scrapped amid censorship fears
“It was infuriating to find our involvement had been erased,” Ai says