Restitution
Grand designs for Cairo Egyptian Museum include expansions and virtual restitution
After many set backs a new building is finally in the works, as well as plans for a modern solution to the dispersal of Egypt's treasures
Interview with Mikhail Shvydkoi on funding and restitution: “Sausage meat is not acceptable. Only culture in exchange for culture is valid”
Russia’s Deputy Culture Minister speaks about the need to establish a new cultural identity in the new Russia
Italian town begs the Cleveland Museum for their cross back, per favore
Illegally sold in the 1960s, it was bought by the US museum in good faith but the Italians would like it returned
Hitler, the prince and the Dürers: The complex story of Lviv's looted Old Master works
After a long, strange journey, the Lubomirski Museum Dürers are now subject to restitutions claims by both Poland and the Ukraine
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
The point of no return - Europe climbs on the restitution bandwagon
But the process has stalled as far as large-scale restitution between Russia and Germany is concerned
The Book of Kings returned to Iran by US in exchange for de Kooning painting
The greatest surviving Persian manuscript was swapped for Woman III, once owned by the Shah of Iran
Pushkin Museum director on restitution: “We don’t owe anybody anything”
The doyenne of the Russian museum profession, Irina Antonova, opposes returning “trophy” works of art
Malévich heirs stake claim on MoMA works
The New York museum insists it has sound title
Only a legal antiquities market can curb the illegal market which destroys world history
Change needed in the face of a growing market
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
Russians "close down restitution commission"
Internal conflicts hamstrung the effort to return war loot to Germany
Patriarch Aleksey II of Moscow and All Russia on restitution: "Places of worship first, museums second"
The official position of the Russian Orthodox Church, as explained by its spokesman
Conservator on conflict with Russian Orthodox Church: "We saved Church art"
Negotiating the restitution of religious art is important, but it should not be at the expense of the institutions protecting Russia's cultural heritage
European Parliament approves the Directive on the Restitution of Cultural Goods
There are concerns however about how effective or restrictive this regulation will be
The creation of a Russian-German Commission for the return of works of art: The Russian will to return war booty exists, the necessary laws do not
Long delays are foreseeable as approaches to restitution vary in both countries
East meets West at Goethe Institute conference—but the gulf on restitution issues is telling
Conference in Prague on public galleries and private collectors hears of thefts and restitution claims in Eastern museums
East meets West in Prague — but the gulf tells
Conference in Prague on public galleries and private collectors hears of thefts and restitution claims in Eastern museums
Agreement reached on EEC exports and restitution
The Regulation to enter into force by the end of March, the Directive in October
World War II ends for a small town in eastern Germany as treasures are finally returned
Church valuables were dispersed in 1945, reunited in 1992, and return home in 1993
Yeltsin’s Commission for Restitution begins work this month to legalise and declassify war booty
This includes finally addressing the disputed Koenigs Collection
Ethiopian football fans demand return of Axum obelisk looted by Mussolini
Official campaign for restitution of sculptured stele
Restitution in Poland: Count recovers Leonardo’s “Lady with the Ermine” from the Communists and donates it to a foundation
Czartoryski Museum and Library converted into foundation with advice from London art dealer, Andrew Ciechanowiecki
Non-compliance with Security Council’s resolutions holds up UNESCO mission to reunite Iraq with treasures lost in Gulf War
More than 4,000 museum items missing according to Director General of the Iraqi Antiquities Department
True claim to Malevich works still to be determined, but Popov eager to strike a deal involving Koening Collection
The Amsterdam Old Master drawings may be swapped for others owned by the van Beuningen Museum in Russia
Unidroit lawyers meet for international agreement on restitution of stolen works of art
Stumbling blocks: attempts to define “national treasure” and abolition of passage of title in “good faith” purchases
Hermitage to exhibit Bremen Old Master drawings
Director does not foresee restitution to Germany
The library of the Sabatinis
After decades of pretending to know nothing about it, Mainz University library reluctantly returns Nazi loot of precious books
Ministers for the Arts meet to discuss art exports under new EEC regulations
Dondelinger proposes uniform controls on external borders and a restitution system