Museums must set the standard for collectors and dealers, says Manus Brinkman Secretary General of the International Council of Museums

The complaint demands a 17.5% finders fee for aiding the recovery of stolen artworks

Austria is not an adequate forum to resolve Nazi loot claim, says California federal court

The Boijman’s van Beuningen museum wants to return a looted Toorop

The work was taken by the Nazis from the Schloss Collection

A lawyer’s comment on the RA's 'From Russia' exhibition and the laws that were pushed through to protect it

A medieval stained-glass window to return to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, while Germany will pay for the rebuilding of a 14th-century church in the Pskov region

This will assist in the identification of looted artworks

While the Kann descendants have solid evidence for their claim, the Wildenstein family are confident enough in their story to share their own documents with The Art Newspaper

The collections of two museums in Grozny have disappeared and the region’s distinctive stone towers are caught in the crossfire

Archaeologists descended upon three sites in Southern Iraq rumoured to contain antiquities

Their director of marketing talks on the database against crime

A new protocol allows for prosecution of organisations and individuals, putting pressure on art market professionals

A Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed

Corrupt military officials in cahoots with Thai art dealers are hacking away at the temples

The London gallery aims to ensure that they are not war loot and appeals for assistance in checking their recent histories

Curator voluntarily collaborates with Italy in accordance with museum’s policy

The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing museums and private collectors who may find themselves having to prove good title to their possessions

Montreal Museum maintains they bought the Vasari in good faith

It is alleged that they were stolen from the collection of Cino Vitta, head of the Jewish community in Florence during the war

Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives

A Foujita, a Picasso and a Gleizes revert to the descendants of the owners–but over 1000 works remain homeless

“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home

Artifact had been missing from Bologna since 1940

This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany

Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure

8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach

Professor John Malcolm Russell's personal connection to the objects left him well placed to recognise them in images from sales

As recalled by Dick Kingzett of Agnew’s