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

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

Enwezor inspired a global, inclusive view of art history

Restitution discussions with descendants of Jewish owner are underway

Joint declaration is “a statement of historical responsibility,” says Culture Minister Monika Grütters

Rijksmuseum opens talks with Sri Lanka, ethnology museums publish guidelines

Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz confronts the legacy of its controversial first director, cousin of Hildebrand Gurlitt

Dutch Old Masters in the retailer’s corporate collection are to be sold at Sotheby’s

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

New exhibition presents documents that lay the foundations for reconstruction of Aleppo and other sites ruined by civil war

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

Exhibition about the Venetian Renaissance at Frankfurt’s Städel Museum also includes works by Giovanni Bellini and Jacopo Tintoretto

Group says it will focus on urban structures in Kassel with links to other sites

Liebieghaus sculpture museum says the acquisition of Reiner Winkler’s collection is the largest in its history

Resolution includes proposals for database of looted art, support for provenance research and exemptions from statutes of limitations

“It was infuriating to find our involvement had been erased,” Ai says

With works from the forced liquidation of his gallery by the Nazis still regularly turning up in Germany, two current restitution claims by his heirs could have major ramifications for all those seeking to recover looted art

Twenty-six of the seized works were to be auctioned at Auktionshaus Weidler tomorrow

Decades-long case to reclaim works held in Hungary’s museums will now go through US District Court

Former David Chipperfield-designed premises has been donated to Berlin's heritage foundation

An eight-member panel including Bénédicte Savoy will assess grant applications

Three landscapes signed A. Hitler were offered for sale at Berlin’s Auktionshaus Kloss

Residential Palace complex, a casualty of Allied bombing in the Second World War, is due to be rebuilt by 2021

RomArchive aims to pool knowledge and counter clichés

First four institutes to be set up in Rio de Janeiro, Bishkek, Erbil and Palermo

Love is in the Bin will be shown among works by Rembrandt, Holbein, Marcel Duchamp and Picasso

Organisers had to delve deep into the Belvedere archives and visit artist's descendants to assemble the exhibition

Commission is to support curators until successor to Okwui Enwezor is found

From newly conserved buildings and puppet shows to virtual-reality installations and ballet, across the country the German school is finally getting its due

Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden aims to make the work “accessible to as many people as possible”