Catherine Hickley
Pianos, asparagus and shame: Andrea Büttner mines philosophy and art history in Kunstmuseum Basel show
The Heart of Relations is the German artist’s largest solo exhibition so far, with almost 90 works from the past 15 years
Ten essential artworks to see in Basel
Off to Art Basel? From a Picasso harlequin to Jean Tinguely’s clanking sound sculpture, here are some of the masterpieces not to miss in the city’s bountiful museums
German city restitutes a Renoir to the heirs of a Jewish banker and buys it back
View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes will in future be displayed with information about its former owner, Jakob Goldschmidt
Picasso portrait sells for €3.4m at Van Ham, a house record
The auction house's evening sale on 5 June was the most successful in its history
Germany returns artefacts—including a Venetian jewellery box stolen in 2006—to Italy
The recovered items also include a Corinthian bronze helmet and four Roman-Byzantine gold coins
German museums hold 40,000 objects from former colony Cameroon, study finds
Cameroon has set up a restitutions committee to work with the museums
Artist Julius von Bismarck engages with his chancellor forebear at newly reopened Berlinische Galerie
Following a four-month closure, the Berlin museum reopens today with five exhibitions
Kunstverein Munich shines a light on its dark Nazi past for 200-year anniversary exhibition
The storied institution has opened its archives—parts of which were untouched decades—to artists and historians
Castello di Rivoli Museum says director Christov-Bakargiev will leave at the end of 2023
The museum is seeking a new director to start in January 2024
Looted Indian sword fetches record ₤14m at Bonhams
Taken as a trophy from the bedside of the dead Tipu Sultan in 1799 by British troops, the sword’s high estimate was ₤2m
Berlin museums to look into origins of archaeological collections
Research could lead to restitutions if artefact were found to have been excavated or exported illegally
Five men from Berlin crime family sentenced for £100m Dresden jewel heist
Two of the men on trial were previously found guilty of stealing a giant gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017
'Restitution with conditions is neo-colonialism': German ruling parties defend return of Benin bronzes in parliament
The far-right Alternative for Germany party called for the debate after the oba of Benin was named owner of the returning artefacts, causing confusion
Vegan dishes in cafes and fewer courier deliveries: how German museums should cut their carbon footprint
Climate protection guidelines have been issued to help sector become climate-fit
Germany’s museums buy back ‘degenerate’ artworks purged by the Nazis
A painting by Egon Schiele is among those bought back by the institutions from where they were confiscated
Unesco seeks to improve artists’ protection from censorship and violence
New report finds that, unlike journalists, artists are often "in the dark" about the organisations they can turn to when their rights are threatened
African and European museum directors pledge to cooperate at Dakar conference
The institutions agreed to collaborate in areas including restitution, digitisation of collections and exhibitions
Remembering Myriam Ullens, art collector, and philanthropist, who launched the first contemporary art museum in China
Belgian entrepreneur in fashion, food and art, co-founded the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, with her husband, Guy Ullens
Monumental Cold War-era Karl Marx mosaic restored in east Germany
Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany
Dusseldorf settles with Jewish dealer’s heirs on portrait that hung in mayor's office
Wilhelm von Schadow’s painting 'The Artist’s Children' was once owned by Max Stern, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s
A major Estonian art collection looted by the Nazis is probably in Belarus, new report finds
With the help of Kyiv archives, a historian has investigated the fate of 5,000 works of art and 20,000 books owned by Julius Genss
Has New York's law aimed at identifying Nazi-looted art in museums worked?
Recent legislation requires institutions to label works they display that was stolen by the Nazis, but some are still unwilling to publish their provenance research
Germans falter on Benin bronzes’ return to Nigeria
Doubts surface in media over Nigeria’s museum infrastructure
'You can buy two sailboats for one Shang Dynasty gong': Chinese art dealer James Lally on selling his gallery’s inventory at auction
The retired gallerist looks back on 50 years of his career ahead of a Christie's New York sale this month
'Wild and raw': Winterthur exhibition reveals the younger side of Cranach the Elder
An exhibition at the Oskar Reinhart Collection Am Römerholz will focus on the German master’s early work, produced when he emigrated to Vienna as a young man
Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie holds fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees
Klaus Biesenbach, Olafur Eliasson and Anne Imhof are organising a two-day event at the museum
Unesco 'gravely concerned' about damage to Ukrainian cultural heritage
The UN body is monitoring heritage sites by satellite and plans a meeting with Ukrainian museum directors to safeguard collections
German foundation urges Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery to close joint exhibition ‘as a gesture of protest’
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has withdrawn as patron of “Diversity United”
Ukraine urges sanctions against Russian art sector
Statement from leading art world figures calls for a ban on Russian participants in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta
Berlin gallery fights eviction by property company majority-owned by billionaire art patron Nicolas Berggruen
Semjon H.N. Semjon has occupied the property in the city's Mitte district for 21 years and has launched a legal challenge against his landlord