Looted art
Maqdala shield to be repatriated to Ethiopia
Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa
Van Gogh Museum exposes three early fakes
A vase of summer sunflowers in a late autumn scene proved a giveaway
'The Lovers': the key painting that the National Gallery couldn't track down for its Van Gogh exhibition
Seized by Hitler's deputy, Hermann Göring, the picture disappeared in mysterious circumstances during the Second World War—but could it survive?
Officials in New York return antiquities worth $14m to Pakistan
Some of the 133 objects being repatriated are associated with the antiquities smugglers Subhash Kapoor and Richard Beale
Italy stops loans to Minneapolis amid ancient marble row
Dispute centres on the Doryphoros statue, which Italy believes was looted in the 1970s
Art Institute of Chicago fights for possession of Egon Schiele portrait
Civil action for return of looted Schiele painting dismissed but criminal case looms
FBI returns 22 looted artefacts to Japan
A haul of historic objects looted following the Battle of Okinawa make their way home after almost 80 years
Auctioneer withdraws looted shield from sale after restitution request from Ethiopian government
Ethiopian Heritage Authority asked to contact vendor to request restitution of battle trophy taken following British expeditionary force's punitive siege of Maqdala in 1868
Investigation by Portuguese newspaper reveals grappling between politicians and museums over future of Kwer’ata Re’esu
Disagreement centred over whether the painting, looted in 1868 and later sold to a private collector in Portugal, should be bought by the government and returned to Ethopia
Princeton University Art Museum identifies 16 artefacts linked to alumnus and alleged smuggler
Edoardo Almagià, who graduated from Princeton University in 1973, has been connected to a range of antiquities currently in the museum's collection
Unravelling the Kwer’ata Re’esu mystery: experts say the painter could be Iberian, Flemish—or German
The painting had been looted at the battle of Maqdala in 1868, but is now in the possession of a Portuguese collector
Sacred Ethiopian tablet looted by the British at the battle of Maqdala 155 years ago is returned in London church service
Restitution of tabot, which was bought by an art scholar for this purpose, puts spotlight on the British Museum to return 11 in its possession
Exclusive: first colour photographs shed fresh light on Ethiopia's most treasured icon and its looting by an agent of the British Museum
An Art Newspaper investigation uncovers new details on the infamous seizure in 1868 by Richard Holmes of a 500-year-old painting of Christ, the Kwer’ata Re’esu, which never reached the London institution
The Met and Yemeni government reach agreement for long-term display and care of two ancient sculptures
The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on
Dutch museum looted by Napoleon does not seek restitution
An exhibition at the Mauritshuis in The Hague has revealed that the Dutch are still missing 67 paintings looted by the French in Napoleonic times
Mauritshuis show looks to find a future for objects with a dubious past
Loot—Ten Stories, opening this week, explores new ways to represent looted objects after they have been repatriated
Manhattan District Attorney's Office seizes $5m bronze bust in Turkish repatriation sting
The sculpture, which depicts a daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is the second out-of-state item to be seized by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit
Italy seeks the return of seven possibly looted works from the Louvre
The museum's director says works with dubious provenance are 'a stain in the collections of the Louvre'
'The most illiquid property you can have is a Greek vase': Vincent Geerling on the challenges facing the antiquities trade
The chairman of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art reflects on an increasingly scrutinised industry as the organisation marks its 30th anniversary
Two looted antiquities seized in New York will be returned to Iraq
The figurines, which were looted from the ancient city of Uruk, belong to one of the oldest civilisations on earth
France's long-awaited restitution policy is finally here
Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez
Germans falter on Benin bronzes’ return to Nigeria
Doubts surface in media over Nigeria’s museum infrastructure
More than 1,000 objects in the Met’s collection linked to alleged traffickers and looters, investigation finds
A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues
Smithsonian to display 77 looted artefacts from Yemen in shared stewardship agreement
The artefacts will go on view at the National Museum of Asian Art, rather than be returned to Yemen, due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis there
Artefacts in Swiss museums were looted from the Kingdom of Benin, new report says
Many of the works investigated show a direct link to the violent 1897 raid by British forces, and may lead to the transfer of objects to Nigeria
Authorities in New York return 14 looted artefacts valued at $2.5m to Italy, including a black-figure hydria by the renowned Priam Painter
The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office
Virgin Mary and Christ diptych, stolen during Second World War, returned to Poland
The paintings, from the workshop of the Flemish master Dieric Bouts, were transferred from the Museo Provincial de Pontevedra in Spain to Gołuchów Castle
Looted archaeological artefacts worth more than $20m returned to Italy
The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt
US government returns looted sarcophagus to Egypt
A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned
Cologne museum to transfer 92-strong Benin bronze collection back to Nigeria
The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum is the latest Western institution to return its collection of artefacts looted from Nigeria in the late-19th century