Catherine Hickley
'The Europeans are back and buying': sales flow steadily at first Art Basel since the pandemic
Though Covid-19 travel complications have kept many US and Asian collectors away, dealers report brisk business from the VIP opening
Zurich takes ‘quantum leap’ with Chipperfield-designed Kunsthaus extension
Opening on 9 October, the major building project turns the Kunsthaus into Switzerland’s largest art museum
From art that's barely there to Alicja Kwade’s heart: what to see at Berlin Art Week
The German capital is awash with exhibitions, performances and events after a quieter edition last year
Klaus Biesenbach named director of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie
Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary museum is to be led by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
Brussels doctors prescribe museum visits to treat Covid-19 stress
Research “has proven that art can be beneficial for health, both mental and physical,” the city’s head of culture tells a Belgian newspaper
The Big Review: Terrible Beauty: Elephant—Human—Ivory at Humboldt Forum
The first exhibition at the controversial new museum complex in Berlin unflinchingly confronts a controversial subject
Amsterdam to return Kandinsky sold under Nazi occupation to heirs
The decision ends a bitter dispute that damaged the reputation of Dutch restitution policy
Dusseldorf exhibition on Jewish dealer Max Stern finally opens next month—but former backers want nothing to do with it
A previous version of the show was due to open in 2018, but was cancelled at short notice. Now it is being shunned.
Mies van der Rohe's landmark Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin ready for reopening after 'surgery' by David Chipperfield
Architect's Modernist masterpiece was “incredibly badly built” and took six years and €140m to restore to its former glory
How do you spot a looted antique? Germany brings in team of experts to help
Government has established €600,000 three-year pilot project called NEXUD to combat illegal trade in antiquities
Hitler’s bronze horses to become government property in legal settlement
Other Nazi sculptures seized in 2015 remain with the private collector who fought to keep them
German Nazi loot panel rejects heirs' claim for Lovis Corinth portrait, keeping it in Berlin’s Stadtmuseum
The commission said the work's history touches four families who had been “oppressed, robbed, deported, driven to flee or murdered”
Liverpool loses Unesco world heritage status—'really disappointed' mayor plans appeal
Committee finds that construction projects have reduced cultural value
Dealer Inge Baecker, a pioneer of the Fluxus movement, dies in German floods
The gallerist was ill at home in Bad Münstereifel, one of the worst-hit towns
German floods damage archives, soaking historic documents in mud
A team from the Cologne City Archive has sent emergency aid to Stolberg
Humboldt Forum opens in Berlin—finally for real
After almost two years of delays, the ambitious museum complex launches its first in-person exhibitions
Documenta 15 to go ahead as planned in 2022 despite pandemic hurdles
After weighing postponement, the Kassel exhibition’s shareholders say decision to stick to timetable was “not easy”
The best art day trips you can take from Berlin, London and New York
From crumbling castles to beach huts and giant chalk drawings on the English coast, there's no need for PCR tests if you live near these local gems
France returns Pechstein painting looted in occupied Paris to heirs of Hugo Simon, a banker and leading figure in German cultural life
An exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris is currently paying tribute to the Jewish collector
Ageing plastic from Communist East Germany comes under the microscope in Getty research project
Scientists will study how Soviet-era household objects "made to last 30 or 40 years" can be preserved
Berlin museums board agrees to relinquish Benin bronzes 'regardless of how they were acquired'
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation aims for the first restitutions to Nigeria next year, requests “detailed timetable” for negotiations
East German palaces and castles to get €400m for renovation
Move addresses "investment backlog" for upgrades to cultural sites in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia
Chinese gold sculpture breaks German auction record at €14m—almost triple the previous high
A Chinese collector bought the 15th century gold and bronze Ming-dynasty sculpture of the god Vajrabhairava earlier today
'There has been a generational shift': Belgian government to collaborate with Democratic Republic of Congo to return colonial-era loot
Bilateral accord to include projects to conserve, research, and store restituted items
Sotheby's launches sales in Germany—against stiff competition from local auction houses
The opulent Palais Oppenheim in Cologne will host exhibitions and sales from September. Sotheby's says move is due to growing client base in country, not Brexit
Interpol launches app to identify stolen art—and it has already been used to discover loot
Spanish police say they used the ID-art programme to successfully spot stolen Roman coins worth €200,000
Bonhams consignor withdraws looted Nepalese sculptures from auction
The five figures of Hindu gods once adorned a gilded temple gateway in a Unesco world heritage site
Belgian experts frustrated at 'lack of initiative from museums and government' call for restitution of colonial-era acquisitions
New report provides guidelines for the return of artefacts to Africa, where Belgium controlled territory that was 80 times its size
Sky’s the limit: how Bronze Age people travelled and traded much further afield than commonly thought
The Nebra Sky disc, the oldest surviving representation of the cosmos, will be one of the star artefacts in an exhibition exploring Unětice culture and its far reaching links
Eerily life-like marble skull—hidden in plain sight in a German castle—was made by Bernini for the Pope, research reveals
Sculpture is now on show at the Semperbau in Dresden