Catherine Hickley
Catherine Hickley is the Museums & Heritage Editor of The Art Newspaper
Documenta appoints musical producer as interim manager amid budget debacle
Wolfgang Orthmayr to replace Annette Kulenkampff, who left before her contract ended
Kassel seeks three new 'Documenta professors'
Scholars will conduct research for a new institute of the quinquennial show based in the city
From Gerhard Richter to Dürer: Christie’s to showcase German art and collecting during Berlin Gallery Weekend
Exhibition targeted at Old Master collectors will not compete with the contemporary art event, auction house says
Cranach portrait stolen almost 80 years ago returns to heirs of Jewish banker
Christie’s to auction portrait of John Frederick the Magnanimous in New York next month
Hartmut Dorgerloh nominated to head Berlin’s Humboldt Forum
If appointed, Dorgerloh, who currently manages the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, will replace the three founding directors
Beer and bread rolls for a vandalised sculpture in Münster
City residents aim to raise €1.2 million for Nicole Eisenman’s Sketch for a Fountain
Dresden receives gift of 1,200 contemporary works from private collector Erika Hoffmann
Gift includes Polke, Warhol, Twombly, Emin, Tillmans
East German ‘arseholes’ are reappraised
The painter Georg Baselitz once profanely dismissed artists behind the Iron Curtain—but their work is now experiencing a long-overdue rediscovery
Widow of Hitler’s art dealer, Erhard Göpel, bequeaths Max Beckmann works to Berlin
Initial research into provenance 'gave no concrete cause for suspicion that these works were looted', Berlin State Museums says
Berlin Museums chief calls for rules on restitution of colonial artefacts
Hermann Parzinger has global support for the equivalent of Washington Principles on Nazi-confiscated art for objects from former colonies
Düsseldorf gears up for the battle of the photography festivals
Düsseldorf Photo Weekend kicks off its seventh edition on 16 February
Estate of Nazi propaganda film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, donated to Berlin museums
Trove of photographs, films, manuscripts and letters date back to the 1920s
Germany to set up help desk for victims of abuse in creative industries
Announcement comes ahead of Berlin Film Festival which will have sexual harassment, abuse and discrimination in the performing arts as central theme
Rubens and the works that inspired him brought together at Städel Museum
Flemish master had access to art from across the ages and assiduously reworked drawings by other artists
Boris Johnson related to mummy found in Basel crypt
Corpse is identified as Anna Catharina Bischoff, who is great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of British foreign secretary
Kassel launches funding campaign for Documenta obelisk
The work by Olu Oguibe calls for hospitality towards refugees
Birthday bash for Baselitz as he turns 80
Simultaneous exhibitions dedicated to German artist open in Basel
Artists, museum directors, scholars voice concern about Documenta’s future
An open letter calls for business chief Kulenkampff’s reinstatement and a new budget plan
Paris's Dapper Foundation stalls talks over Cameroonian sculpture
Known as the Bangwa Queen, the object was either given to or looted by the German colonial agent Gustav Conrau
Should museums display human remains from other cultures?
Vienna’s Weltmuseum criticised for displaying a trophy head
Düsseldorf faces Nazi-era claim for Franz Marc’s foxes
Painting hangs in the city’s Museum Kunstpalast
German museums report 2.5 million drop in visitor numbers in 2016
Number of people visiting art museums in the country has dropped by 7.4 per cent
Lasers and water gel used to restore Medieval altarpiece from Rimini
The treatment of Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus museum's fragile alabaster ensemble could pave the way for future loans
Carsten Höller to build slide for Bonn Bundeskunsthalle
Installation will form part of an exhibition on playgrounds
Qatar brings desert sands to snowy Berlin
Contemporary Art Qatar transcends cultural boundaries at the Kraftwerk
Documenta manager to leave post after budget overruns
Annette Kulenkampff departs on “mutual agreement” a year before contract ends
Germany names new head of Nazi-looted art panel
Hans-Jürgen Papier fills post held by Jutta Limbach until her death last year
John Lennon’s stolen diaries found by Berlin police
Journals and other personal effects were discovered at auction house, reports say
Germany plans mega-exhibitions to boost cultural presence abroad
Government initiative to co-ordinate museum loans worldwide revives an idea of the late Martin Roth
Painting looted from Hitler withdrawn from auction in Cologne
Franz von Stuck’s portrait of two girls was due to be sold at Van Ham