Catherine Hickley
Catherine Hickley is the Museums & Heritage Editor of The Art Newspaper
Graff portrait of Saxon noblewoman shakes off centuries of grime and varnish
After painstaking work, its restorer curates a display at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie
Sotheby’s to auction Kirchner and Kokoschka paintings returned to Jewish dealer’s heirs
The paintings restituted to family of Alfred Flechtheim carry top estimates of $20m each
Berlin's Humboldt Forum: how its director plans to confront Germany’s colonial past
Hartmut Dorgerloh says institution will discuss presentation of non-Western art “together with critical friends and the communities”
Documenta obelisk, dismantled last week, to remain in Kassel after all
Artist Olu Oguibe accepts alternative location, saying work’s humane message is urgently needed
Fire consumes depot at Deutsches Museum
Burned storage depot housed 8,000 exhibits; museum fears “heavy damages”
Sweden's Nationalmuseum reopens—and goes free
Government waives charges after funding five-year, £100m refurbishment
'Poor but sexy' no more: property boom drives out Berlin's artists
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
Largest ever exhibition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder opens in Vienna
Show at the Kunsthistorisches Museum unites more than three-quarters of the artist's paintings
Deutsche Bank opens Berlin palace fit for its vast art collection
The Palais Populaire will be a permanent exhibition space for the bank's 55,000 works
Swedish museums call for panel to advise on Nazi-loot claims
“It shouldn’t be entirely up to us,” says Daniel Birnbaum, the director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, which recently restituted a Kokoschka painting
Ambitious project to build replica Berlin Wall blocked by city authorities
Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s giant installation based on 700 hours of film faces insurmountable bureaucratic hurdles
Berlin blockbuster: from the world's oldest figurative art to sculptures bombed during the war
Survey at Martin-Gropius-Bau boasts a staggering 1,000 exhibits discovered over the past 20 years in Germany
German court orders restorer to pay dealer €26,000 after eight-year dispute
Munich-based dealer claimed paintings he sent for cleaning had been ruined
Red tape is stifling German auctions
Stringent cultural heritage laws and bureaucracy are making consignments much harder to find
Brillo Boxes ‘faked’ by museum director included in new Andy Warhol show
Pop artist's fist institutional exhibition revisited 50 years on at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet
Städel Museum publishes oral history of postwar German art
Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and Kasper König are among more than 70 interviewees in the project, called Café Deutschland
Sweden's Moderna Museet returns Kokoschka work to Jewish dealer's heirs
The 1910 portrait of a marquis was sold by Alfred Flechtheim’s employee after the dealer fled Nazi Germany
Police remove giant Erdogan statue from German city square after aggressive exchanges
City authorities in Wiesbaden say it posed a threat to security
Berlin to get replica wall with visa controls in giant art installation on Soviet era
Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky teams up with Brian Eno, Marina Abramovic, Massive Attack for project called DAU
Georgia returns still life painting looted by Stalin's Trophy Commission
Country's stance contrasts that of neighbouring Russia, which still holds around a million items of war booty looted from Germany
Okwui Enwezor hits out at ‘besmirching’ by Haus der Kunst
Former artistic director says being blamed for museum’s financial woes was among “most shocking” moments of his career
Berlin artists face poverty, meagre pensions and a yawning gender pay gap, survey reveals
“Women are particularly affected by this precarious situation,” study’s author says
Münster on track to raise funds for Eisenman fountain as artist and gallery reduce price
Fund-raisers have so far raised €300,000 of €800,000 needed
Prosecutor drops investigation into Documenta financial management
The exhibition's manager, Annette Kulenkampff, welcomes prosecutor’s decision
Dresden’s Albertinum brings out East German art to ‘build bridges’
Museum director Hilke Wagner seeks to address lingering prejudices with exhibition and events
Munich's Haus der Kunst cancels Joan Jonas exhibition amid financial woes
“Management errors of the past” are responsible for troubles, statement says
Playtime: how artists have been unleashing their inner child this summer
From superhero action figures to Chianti-infused treasure hunts and poolside art, exhibitions are exploring the importance of play
Cologne archaeologists unearth oldest library in Germany
The foundation walls contain niches used to store scrolls
Berlin restores murals neglected for more than a century
Only ten of the wall paintings—created in housing complexes to offer visual relief from the booming German capital—remain
German Green Party politicians launch petition 'for freedom of the arts'
Online campaign criticises right-wing governments in Austria, Hungary and Poland and warns that Germany could be next