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

Following a four-month closure, the Berlin museum reopens today with five exhibitions

The storied institution has opened its archives—parts of which were untouched decades—to artists and historians

The museum is seeking a new director to start in January 2024

Taken as a trophy from the bedside of the dead Tipu Sultan in 1799 by British troops, the sword’s high estimate was ₤2m

Research could lead to restitutions if artefact were found to have been excavated or exported illegally

Two of the men on trial were previously found guilty of stealing a giant gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017

The far-right Alternative for Germany party called for the debate after the oba of Benin was named owner of the returning artefacts, causing confusion

Climate protection guidelines have been issued to help sector become climate-fit

A painting by Egon Schiele is among those bought back by the institutions from where they were confiscated

New report finds that, unlike journalists, artists are often "in the dark" about the organisations they can turn to when their rights are threatened

The institutions agreed to collaborate in areas including restitution, digitisation of collections and exhibitions

Belgian entrepreneur in fashion, food and art, co-founded the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, with her husband, Guy Ullens

Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany

Wilhelm von Schadow’s painting 'The Artist’s Children' was once owned by Max Stern, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s

With the help of Kyiv archives, a historian has investigated the fate of 5,000 works of art and 20,000 books owned by Julius Genss

Recent legislation requires institutions to label works they display that was stolen by the Nazis, but some are still unwilling to publish their provenance research

Doubts surface in media over Nigeria’s museum infrastructure

The retired gallerist looks back on 50 years of his career ahead of a Christie's New York sale this month