Looted art

The Greeks on display in Venice and hidden war booty at the Hermitage

Palazzo Grassi's “Greeks in the West” exhibition is pulling in the visitors

Correction: Michael Ward Gallery

An amendment to an article published in the March issue of The Art Newspaper (No. 57, p.26), with our apologies

Iraqarchive

Iraq's cultural heritage continues to be depleted as museums and archaeological sites plagued by smugglers

In a lecture given at London's Institute of Archaeology, Dr Lamia al Galiani-Werr drove home the urgency of the issue

Newsarchive

War loot funded Quedlinburg GI’s double lifestyle

Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment

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Daniel Wildenstein in fight to recover a Boldini stolen by the Nazis

Would Italian law allow this picture to revert to the original owner?

Lost artarchive

Museums in Magdeburg and Leipzig publish lists of their missing art

Two museums in search of their history end up at the door of the Pushkin Museum

Looted artarchive

Global registry of looted art established

A commercial company has logged 34,000 looted objects so far

Newsarchive

US indicts war booty sellers

Brother and sister of the US soldier who stole the Quedlinburg treasure to face possible imprisonment

Souren Melikian on collectors coming to the rescue in preservation crisis: The International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art's London Conference

The scholar of Iranian culture and International Herald Tribune art journalist says dealers could be the solution to recent archaeological disasters

Looking at the findings of the “Spoils of War” conference

The meeting produced revelations, but little hope that the return of looted art will be eased

Featuresarchive

Why has the Germano-Russian war loot question still not been resolved?

Even after treaties have been signed, legal wrangles between Germany and Russia persist

Cambodiaarchive

Pillaged Cambodian art sold at Sotheby’s and displayed in the Met

Despite being published last year by the International Council of Museums, severed stone heads are circulating in London and New York

Looted artarchive

What future for the looted Krebs Collection?

Rumours of a Sotheby’s valuation have encouraged talk of auction

Collectorsarchive

“The world cannot afford many more collectors with a passion for antiquities”

As the Getty Museum opens an exhibition of the Fleischman collection of antiquities, Ricardo Elia, professor of archaeology at Boston University, argues that showcasing private collections only encourages the looting of archaeological sites.

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Where is the real Van Gogh’s “White House at Night”?

Fears are growing that the version in the St Petersburg is a replica

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Stolichny bank buys war booty

Russian bank revealed as major investor in the art market

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From the archive (1993): Where is the looted Kwer'ata Re'esu, the most revered icon of the Ethiopian empire?

As a touring exhibition, African Zion—The Sacred Art Of Ethiopia, opened in the United States in 1993, a scholar of Ethiopian history asked what had become of the country's most important painting of all

Lootingarchive

Looted Bremen drawings on show at the Hermitage in June

About 150 items from the collection will be displayed at the exhibition

Hermitage to exhibit Bremen Old Master drawings

Director does not foresee restitution to Germany

Newsarchive

US returns bell taken as trophy of war to Japan

The temple bell was taken from a Japanese island by American marines at the end of World War II

Looted artarchive

How forces invading Iraq neglected to make provisions for heritage sites

Unlike in World War II, no commission exists to advise the military

Newsarchive

French war booty surfaces in East Berlin

The Musées de France knew about it for nearly twenty years

Iranarchive

Iran imposes capital punishment for illicit exportation of antiquities

This legislation may come to late, as several archaeological sites have already been looted, and their content distributed throughout the international market