Catherine Hickley
Catherine Hickley is the Museums & Heritage Editor of The Art Newspaper
The French-born artist’s retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery captures her diverse influences
From Old Master portraits and grainy photographs to sculptures on chairs and naked performances
Wide-ranging nationwide survey will catalogue artefacts held by monasteries and convents that were collected by missionaries in Africa, Asia and South America
He replaced a painting by Franz von Stuck with a forgery and sold the original
Claudia Roth says the commission’s current mandate is “inadequate” and “we are not living up to our responsibilities"
The advisory commission said it sees the current framework as “unsatisfactory” and “in need of an urgent overhaul”
The lawyer and activist may play a key role in negotiating the return of Benin bronzes
The spear, digging stick, cudgel and net were brought home by German missionaries nearly 200 years ago
The 54-year-old woman used ticket-sale tricks at the Fondation Beyeler near Basel to fund luxury cars and holidays
A directive that aims to create a single value-added tax system will enable member countries to set their own reduced rates internally
The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century
The descendants of the €200m collection's Jewish former owners had appealed a 2022 regional court ruling
A sculpture by Michelangelo Pistoletto was destroyed by fire in Naples on Wednesday
Visitors who accessed text via QR codes saw collector Emil Georg Bührle described as “a Nazi sympathiser, authoritarian militarist, at the very least a war profiteer and probably a war criminal”
After taking guidance from the community's traditional elders and religious leaders, the Oxford museum presented the "symbolic gift" on the weekend
The director of Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie will succeed Klaus Albrecht Schröder from 2025
The scientific director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna will take charge of one of Europe’s most important museum organisations in 2025
The painting was pulled from a sale in June following reports it was sold under duress in 1936 by Walter Blank, who died in Spain while fleeing Nazi Germany
The fragment, plundered in the 1980s or 1990s, was seized in a criminal case in Geneva
Currently director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Fine succeeds Sabine Haag in 2025
The committee is led by Donnell Deeny, chairman of the UK government’s Spoliation Advisory Committee
Calling out the injustice of colonialism and following it up with "serious debate and concrete actions" is Austria’s responsibility, says culture secretary
Many of the works to be exhibited have never been shown before and were salvaged by his son from Altdorf’s studio
The museum is in contact with the owner, Musée d’Orsay, about reinstalling Le jardin de l’artiste à Giverny in its exhibition
The Heart of Relations is the German artist’s largest solo exhibition so far, with almost 90 works from the past 15 years
Off to Art Basel? From a Picasso harlequin to Jean Tinguely’s clanking sound sculpture, here are some of the masterpieces not to miss in the city’s bountiful museums
View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes will in future be displayed with information about its former owner, Jakob Goldschmidt
The auction house's evening sale on 5 June was the most successful in its history
The recovered items also include a Corinthian bronze helmet and four Roman-Byzantine gold coins
Cameroon has set up a restitutions committee to work with the museums