In a filing this week, the museum disputes the Manhattan District Attorney’s claim that the painting was taken from the Austrian cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum by the Nazis

For the first time since 1937, visitors will be able to pass right through the cavernous nave of the Art Nouveau masterpiece

Brandy, anyone?

The painting, which was estimated at between $4m and $6m when it was offered at Christie’s in 2022, is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Police are appealing for information about two other paintings stolen in the same 2020 burglary

Recent actions in front of and inside the Manhattan museum come as the workers are seeking their second contract since forming a union in 2019

Drawn from a 300-work sub-collection gathered by John Szarkowski in the 1990s, the gift includes images by 96 photographers—among them Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston

Lessons to be learnt after the British Museum misfired with a social media post branded as "sexist"

Dispute centres on the Doryphoros statue, which Italy believes was looted in the 1970s

It is the first US-museum acquisition of a work by the talented pupil of Jacques-Louis David

Works by artists from the region and diaspora appear alongside objects from the museum’s collection

Even amid political tensions between the superpowers, officials from both countries emphasised the importance of continued collaboration on antiquities trafficking

Former head of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen takes over at a time of central government cuts to cultural institutions in Paris

The museum’s latest repatriation comes as it ramps up efforts to audit the provenance of objects in its collection

Chief executive warns that institution is facing a deficit of more than £4m

Project opens with four-year backing from AKO Foundation to acquire Sámi and Inuit art from Northern Europe

The Danish specialist Ittai Gradel, who first raised alarm about thefts of antiquities from the London museum, and earlier returned 61 gems bought separately on eBay, approached the Thorvaldsens Museum to help in repatriating a second, larger set of stolen pieces

Four new museums across the country are planned over the next five years and a new cultural quarter is under construction in the biggest city, Cotonou

The group say the institution is allowing the Adani Group—which has ties to coal mining and arms manufacturing—to "greenwash" its reputation via sponsorship

The celebrated early 17th-century Dragon Spire is consumed by fire after conflagration takes hold during historic structure's renovation

Niles Luther began his composing career working with the artist Kehinde Wiley

Ruth Patir says that she and the curators will not open exhibition until Israel and Hamas reach “a ceasefire and hostage release agreement"

The 150ft-tall, $200m outdoor installation at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards development has been closed since 2021 following a series of suicides

Religious works, restored by conservation experts, will be returned to the historic cathedral on the Seine

The few remaining houses that recall New Amsterdam are also reminding visitors of the overlooked histories of local Indigenous and Black communities

Art detective Christopher Marinello believes more action is needed after an investigation by the Independent newspaper revealed thefts at the Imperial War Museum, Natural History Museum and others

Day trippers will need to pay €5 to enter on select days in a pilot scheme which starts during the Biennale

Seven sites in the city have been closed for nearly eight weeks over a one-off cost of living payment, and there are suggestions that further action will be announced soon

The donors, Tod and Cindy Johnson, met and got married during their time at CMU; they will have a gallery named in their honour

The museum, whose photography collection began with a donation from Alfred Stieglitz, will soon give the medium pride of place again