Vast sum outstrips budget for reconstruction of city’s royal palace and creation of Humboldt Forum

The German Chancellor also welcomed debate on colonial-era art at a ceremony in the Humboldt Forum

Two-day auction will include works by Picasso, Matisse, Egon Schiele, collected by Bernd Schultz over six decades

The former British Museum director, who steered the project for three years, discusses its Enlightenment roots and ambition to engage a wider public

Hartmut Dorgerloh says institution will discuss presentation of non-Western art “together with critical friends and the communities”

Artist Olu Oguibe accepts alternative location, saying work’s humane message is urgently needed

The German capital once attracted talent from across the world with its cheap rents, but gentrification is making an exodus already seen in London and New York

Galleries and collectors praised fair's new location but visitors remain largely German

Exile gallery has moved to Vienna, while Gillmeier Rech closes

The Palais Populaire will be a permanent exhibition space for the bank's 55,000 works

Survey at Martin-Gropius-Bau boasts a staggering 1,000 exhibits discovered over the past 20 years in Germany

Munich-based dealer claimed paintings he sent for cleaning had been ruined

Stringent cultural heritage laws and bureaucracy are making consignments much harder to find

Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and Kasper König are among more than 70 interviewees in the project, called Café Deutschland

City authorities in Wiesbaden say it posed a threat to security

Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky teams up with Brian Eno, Marina Abramovic, Massive Attack for project called DAU

Country's stance contrasts that of neighbouring Russia, which still holds around a million items of war booty looted from Germany

“Women are particularly affected by this precarious situation,” study’s author says

Fund-raisers have so far raised €300,000 of €800,000 needed

The exhibition's manager, Annette Kulenkampff, welcomes prosecutor’s decision

With more than 120 galleries, fair's second edition will test the strength of the German capital's under-developed art market

Museum director Hilke Wagner seeks to address lingering prejudices with exhibition and events

“Management errors of the past” are responsible for troubles, statement says

From superhero action figures to Chianti-infused treasure hunts and poolside art, exhibitions are exploring the importance of play

Decision should put decade-long legal battle between museum and heirs of art dealer Jacques Goudstikker "to rest"

The foundation walls contain niches used to store scrolls

Online campaign criticises right-wing governments in Austria, Hungary and Poland and warns that Germany could be next

The preserved head was held in Cologne's Rautenstrauch Joest Museum of world cultures for 110 years

Sotheby’s withdrew bronze sculpture of Mars from auction at last minute

Newly-funded projects include abandoned department store that was the set for The Grand Budapest Hotel film