The “smallest and most chilling distinctions are being made in order to allow museums to keep their collections intact,” experts say

Appeal published in Die Zeit welcomes Macron report but says debate should not be limited to restitution

First-ever exhibition on the Gipsformerei, which copies works for museums and Jeff Koons, will open the James Simon Gallery next summer

Exhibition at Dresden's Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau reveals how women in the Eastern Bloc were often more radical than the men

Shareholders agree to increase funding for the 2022 edition

Major conference in Berlin this week marks anniversary of landmark agreement

Spiralling costs of museum project chiefly to blame for bankruptcy, say press reports

Heinrich von Spreti will serve as interim managing director until a replacement is found

Auctioneer Frank Hargesheimer compensates consignor, sees “moral duty” to restitute art lost due to Nazi persecution

New show explores the flights of fancy made by the Expressionist who never ventured outside Germany and Switzerland

Vast sum outstrips budget for reconstruction of city’s royal palace and creation of Humboldt Forum

Austrian People’s Party politician has refused to schedule parliamentary culture committee meetings and has overseen a decline in the culture budget

The German Chancellor also welcomed debate on colonial-era art at a ceremony in the Humboldt Forum

Two-day auction will include works by Picasso, Matisse, Egon Schiele, collected by Bernd Schultz over six decades

Works will be shown in a new home for contemporary art opening next year

Benin Dialogue Group announces three-year schedule for new Royal Museum to display looted objects now in European collections

After painstaking work, its restorer curates a display at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie

The paintings restituted to family of Alfred Flechtheim carry top estimates of $20m each

Hartmut Dorgerloh says institution will discuss presentation of non-Western art “together with critical friends and the communities”

Artist Olu Oguibe accepts alternative location, saying work’s humane message is urgently needed

Burned storage depot housed 8,000 exhibits; museum fears “heavy damages”

Government waives charges after funding five-year, £100m refurbishment

The German capital once attracted talent from across the world with its cheap rents, but gentrification is making an exodus already seen in London and New York

Show at the Kunsthistorisches Museum unites more than three-quarters of the artist's paintings

The Palais Populaire will be a permanent exhibition space for the bank's 55,000 works

“It shouldn’t be entirely up to us,” says Daniel Birnbaum, the director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, which recently restituted a Kokoschka painting

Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s giant installation based on 700 hours of film faces insurmountable bureaucratic hurdles

Survey at Martin-Gropius-Bau boasts a staggering 1,000 exhibits discovered over the past 20 years in Germany

Munich-based dealer claimed paintings he sent for cleaning had been ruined

Stringent cultural heritage laws and bureaucracy are making consignments much harder to find