Catherine Hickley
Catherine Hickley is the Museums & Heritage Editor of The Art Newspaper
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
Documenta to name new artistic director by early 2019
Quinquennial appoints eight-member search committee for curator of 2022 edition
German museum returns tattooed Maori skull to New Zealand
The preserved head was held in Cologne's Rautenstrauch Joest Museum of world cultures for 110 years
German government steps in to buy Giambologna as minister says Bayer should have donated it to ‘people of Dresden’
Sotheby’s withdrew bronze sculpture of Mars from auction at last minute
German culture budget grows to €1.8bn
Newly-funded projects include abandoned department store that was the set for The Grand Budapest Hotel film
Hamburg addresses German genocide in Namibia with photography exhibition
Show of Marc Erwin Babej’s work comes as Namibia calls on Germany to return cultural treasures
Saudi Arabian foundation donates €9m to Berlin Museum of Islamic Art
Funds donated by Alwaleed Philanthropies will support exhibitions and education, including “Multaka” project to train refugees as museum guides
Deutsche Bank to open Berlin art centre Palais Populaire in September
First exhibition will show around 300 works on paper from the bank’s vast corporate collection
Gerhard Richter creates Foucault pendulum for Münster church
Artist's donated installation pays tribute to "a small victory for science"
Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun teams up with Ikea
Project aims to produce affordable, off-grid tools
Angola recovers six artefacts looted from museum during civil war
Dundo Museum's lost objects were traced by the Sindika Dokolo Foundation
German museum and auctioneer Im Kinsky tussle over looted glass goblet
Object was returned to consigner not museum from where it was looted at the end of Second World War





























