Catherine Hickley

Catherine Hickley is the Museums & Heritage Editor of The Art Newspaper

Documenta’s budget blowout will not put next edition at risk

City of Kassel says it can cover €5.4 million deficit from this year’s event

Düsseldorf abruptly cancels exhibition about Jewish dealer Max Stern

City authorities cite ongoing restitution claims as reason for decision

Painting looted from Hitler to be auctioned in Cologne

Van Ham to offer Franz von Stuck portrait in 17 November sale

Ai Weiwei to auction cat toy sculpture for Syrian children

Proceeds from Berlin sale, which also includes works by Rosemarie Trockel and Tomás Saraceno, will benefit Kayany Foundation

Malevich painting in Düsseldorf state collection exposed as forgery

Expert studies reveal Black Rectangle, Red Square was produced after 1950

Prizesnews

Berlin Nationalgalerie prize nominees troubled by focus on gender and nationality

Four shortlisted artists issue statement calling for more money, less show

Lord Mayor of London returns Nazi-looted Dutch Old Master

The Oyster Meal, insured for £1.5m, has hung in Mansion House for nearly three decades

Berlin art dealer and family donate art by Picasso, Warhol and Richter to city of Chemnitz

Bastian family have collaborated with the German city’s art collection since 2002

Cornelius Gurlitt’s art hoard finally gets first public showing

Organisers hope two shows will lead to restitution claims from victims of Nazi persecution

Women are under-represented and underpaid in German arts, study finds

While the country has made progress in providing childcare, it still remains an obstacle

Painting in Gurlitt hoard identified as Nazi loot—thanks to a tiny repair hole

Portrait by Thomas Couture belonged to a French politician who opposed the Nazis

Kassel haggles over the price of Documenta 14's obelisk

Olu Oguibe has reportedly asked for €1m for his Monument to Strangers and Refugees

Locals fight to retain Eisenman fountain following Sculpture Projects Münster

Residents are working with artist to create a more durable version of the vandalised work

Christie’s to auction long-lost painting by Mannerist artist Spranger

German private owner reaches settlement with Jewish art historian’s heirs

Art dealer Heiner Bastian signs over Chipperfield-designed house to Berlin museums

“Bastian House” will give visitors an overview of what to expect on Museum Island

Leading German arts figures rise-up against AfD

Joint letter urges parliament not to appoint far-right party member as chair of culture committee

Vandals spray swastika on Sculpture Projects Münster exhibit

Organisers condemn “murderous propaganda of all right-wing parties”

Germany stumps up €400m for Prussian palaces and parks

Funding will benefit Potsdam’s Sanssouci and Berlin’s Charlottenburg palaces

Street art museum opens in Berlin

Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art is one of the world's first of its kind

Germany launches internet portal to fight art trafficking

Site gives information on international regulations and protected German heritage

Documenta faces yawning €7m deficit, seeks financial help

Kassel city and the state of Hesse pledge to secure long-term liquidity

Anne Webberinterview

How can museums speed up the return of art looted during the Nazi era?

Conference at London's National Gallery this week looks at how the process can be accelerated

Interview by Catherine Hickley

Stolen Baselitz works recovered by police

German investigators find 15 paintings and drawings in Leverkusen, north of Cologne

Gerhard Richter’s Birkenau series goes on permanent display in Reichstag

The abstract images were inspired by documentary photographs of Nazi death camp

Thieves damage Koki Tanaka work at Sculpture Projects Münster

Police are investigating a burglary in the latest incident of crime at festival

Gurlitt bequest spurs provenance research in Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Bern has taken possession of first works from controversial collection of Nazi-era art due to go on show in November

Neil MacGregor extends contract at Berlin's Humboldt Forum

The former British Museum chief, appointed as founding director in 2015, will steer the project to completion

Dusseldorf museum pulls painting from show after Nazi loot claim

Owner says Andreas Achenbach’s Sicilian Landscape was bought in a “normal gallery transaction”