Work once belonged to the shoe manufacturer Alfred Hess, whose family was forced to flee Nazi Germany

After breaking in through a window at the Green Vault, the intruders grabbed three royal jewellery ensembles containing diamonds and pearls

Light Art Space wants visitors to understand the world through a computer’s eyes

Leo Bendel was killed at Buchenwald three years after he sold the painting by Carl Spitzweg to fund his escape from Nazi Germany

Show includes insights into preparations by the Indonesian art cooperative Ruangrupa for the 2022 edition

Our pick of highlights from the next fortnight's auctions and fairs

Collector Maria Chen-Tu says she had loaned works by Markus Lüpertz and Anselm Kiefer to a businessman to be shown in museums

Government says institute is necessary to address “considerable backlog in securing the visual memory of our society”

The gesture is intended as a symbol of France’s commitment to repatriating African heritage

Paid over four years, it will support efforts made by museums, grassroots-organisations and governments

The €364m budget is “a real pain threshold,” culture minister says

The property was once home to Paul Schultze-Naumburg, a leading proponent of Nazi cultural policy

National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo agrees to buy the painting, Ships at Sea in Stormy Weather

The database includes 9,000 catalogues from more than 390 auction houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Gari Melchers's painting of a winter landscape, which was in the Arkell Museum in the state of New York, belonged to the media mogul Rudolf Mosse

Research project conducted by Alte Pinakothek reveals how the Flemish painter developed and reworked his canvases

A leading Italian art historian attributed it to Raphael and associates before the sale

Challenges include financial problems and a major planned renovation

The artefact will be the focus of a joint exhibition with the Halle Museum of Prehistory

Police has raided seven premises in connection with the investigation

The project, which is to be designed with participation from children and young people, will be supported by the Goethe Institute

An open letter from scholars and curators, including Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr, demands greater transparency on collections

Sylvain Bellenger is reappointed in Capodimonte, Cristiana Collu remains at Rome Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna

The work, previously unknown to scholars, was until now in a private ducal collection

Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government

Move comes just one month before the German art historian was due to take the reins of the prestigious museum

Splendid royal state apartments of Augustus the Strong are opening to visitors again after a lavish reconstruction

Textile-works showing Nazi prison camps and Mussolini with a spear through his head will feature in first German survey of Swedish artist

The Danish-Icelandic artist has long been addressing environmental issues in his work

But return of the objects permanently to Namibia is not the immediate goal, says Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation