Restitution

Art marketarchive

Insurance for war loot claims on the rise

Increasing numbers of private collectors, dealers, museums, and banks have been buying policies to protect their assets

Dutch restitution group to carry on for three more years

Former vice-president of the Dutch Supreme Court is named chairman

New York collector Shelby White returns antiquities to Italy

White's restitution of the illegally excavated objects is a first for the US

Courtauld restitution claim dismissed

The three Rubens paintings will remain with the gallery

MoMA and Guggenheim file joint appeal against restitution effort

They dispute claims made by Julius Schoeps on Picassos in their collection

Amsterdam sale concludes Goudstikker series

Old masters, recovered as a result of one of the world’s largest Nazi restitution claims, net $20m

Successful Amsterdam sale concludes the series of Goudstikker auctions

Old masters, recovered as a result of one of the world’s largest Nazi restitution claims, net $20m

Dutch museums face largest ever restitution claim

Heirs of dealer Nathan Katz says 225 paintings were sold under duress

Austriaarchive

Leonard Lauder’s Klimt landscape belongs to me, says heir of Nazi victim

Georges Jorisch is represented by Randol Schoenberg, the lawyer who last year won his eight-year case against Austria for the return of five Klimts to California resident Maria Altman

US collector Brooke Allen returns relics sacred to Kenyan tribe

The works were part of an estate the collector inherited from her parents

One rule for the Getty, another for Italy? Italian group appeals restitution verdict

When it comes to returning antiquities from its own collections, Italy drags its feet

Nazi lootarchive

V&A will not get casket back

Medieval casket returned to UK owner; Czartoryski family to pursue case with support of Polish Ministry of Culture

Field Museum to return Maori remains to New Zealand

Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum in Wellington, will hold them until they can be identified

Germans call for return of paintings in the National Maritime Museum seized by British troops

The London museum has turned down two previous requests for restitution

John Henry Merryman: Archaeologists are not helping debate over collecting antiquities

Merryman, a leading US theorist of cultural property law, argues that archaeologists are failing to acknowledge the complexity of the current debate on collecting antiquities

Auschwitz survivor wants her art back from concentration camp

Roma portraits were made by Jewish prisoner on the orders of Dr Josef Mengele

The Nazi bounty hunters: War loot claims become big business

World War II restitution is now a multi-million dollar enterprise in which lawyers, auction houses and possibly even venture capitalists all have a stake

Italy gets antiquities back from Boston Museum of Fine Arts

The museum bought in good faith, but was shown evidence that they had left Italy illicitly

Greece's Archaeological Museum of Heraklion to send Minoan antiquities to British Museum

The arrangement may be the first step in diffusing the animosity brought about by the Elgin marbles, although a request for their return is expected

Simplified Dutch restitution policy to end

Policy regarding reclaiming of looted artworks to change come April

Getty antiquities to be returned to Italy

A joint statement by the Getty and Italian government says 21 pieces will go back

Claimant severs his ties with London-based restitution commission

Organisation had insisted he demand return of drawings held by the British Museum, but he wanted financial compensation

Orthodox Church seeks control of Moscow icon museum

The fate of Ryazan's Art and History Museum could set a precedent for restitution