After almost two years, the case has been dismissed due to a lack of jurisdiction, so the work will remain at the Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo

The work, showing two of Kirchner’s fellow artists playing chess, was sold under duress by the Berlin dealer Victor Wallerstein after he fled to Italy from Nazi Germany

The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War

The two-foot-tall artefact, which hails from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, will remain on view in Cleveland for "a few years"

The 114-year-old iron sculpture of a steam locomotive was stolen from the roof of a train station in 1983

Heirs of multiple Holocaust victims have made claims to the drawing, which a member of the Lehman Brothers banking dynasty bought as a gift for his son

The 1823 naturalist tome describes species of monkeys and bats unique to the Amazon

“Victorious Youth”, which was found off the Adriatic coast by Italian fishermen in 1964, has been the subject of an international legal feud for decades

The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970

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

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

The Balot sculpture will be in the Democratic Republic of Congo for six months, while a video of it shows simultaneously at the Venice Biennale

Conservative Robert Jenrick argues that proposed long term loans of disputed works is a legal fabrication

Mati Diop’s “Dahomey”, which won top honours at the Berlin International Film Festival, takes a pensive and unconventional approach to its subject

The repatriations to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia come as the museum continues to distance itself from Latchford and his late collaborator Emma C. Bunker

The changes will allow Germany to better meet its commitments under the Washington Principles, the country's culture minister says

Only seven nations have made major inroads in recovering property seized during the Holocaust, according to the World Jewish Restitution Organization

The museum insists that heirs to the original collector waited too long to file their claim for the valuable work on paper

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

The museum switched off comments on one of its Instagram posts after it was flooded with calls for the restitution of the moai objects

Mark Jones also says BP deal is the ‘right one’ and announces recovered items show

An innovative agreement between the Metropolitan Museum, American businessman Leonard N. Stern and the Greek government led to the new display of 161 Cycladic antiquities at the New York museum

The Ackland Art Museum restituted a painting taken from a prominent Jewish collector via Nazi coercion

The two works on paper once belonged to Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer who was killed in the Holocaust

The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals leaves the heirs of Lilly Cassirer with few options to pursue their restitution claim

But her most important reform proposal faces opposition from the state of Bavaria

There are some very spurious arguments coming from those resisting the return of the marbles to Greece

Country’s culture minister calls for research into artefacts held by British institutions and also announces a Royal Academy show

Latest restitution of work by Cornelis van Haarlem is part of years-long campaign to reunite works with family of Dutch-Jewish dealer