Catherine Hickley
Sotheby's launches sales in Germany—against stiff competition from local auction houses
The opulent Palais Oppenheim in Cologne will host exhibitions and sales from September. Sotheby's says move is due to growing client base in country, not Brexit
Interpol launches app to identify stolen art—and it has already been used to discover loot
Spanish police say they used the ID-art programme to successfully spot stolen Roman coins worth €200,000
Bonhams consignor withdraws looted Nepalese sculptures from auction
The five figures of Hindu gods once adorned a gilded temple gateway in a Unesco world heritage site
Belgian experts frustrated at 'lack of initiative from museums and government' call for restitution of colonial-era acquisitions
New report provides guidelines for the return of artefacts to Africa, where Belgium controlled territory that was 80 times its size
Sky’s the limit: how Bronze Age people travelled and traded much further afield than commonly thought
The Nebra Sky disc, the oldest surviving representation of the cosmos, will be one of the star artefacts in an exhibition exploring Unětice culture and its far reaching links
Eerily life-like marble skull—hidden in plain sight in a German castle—was made by Bernini for the Pope, research reveals
Sculpture is now on show at the Semperbau in Dresden
Germany pledges €2.5bn in aid for cultural events
The funding, available for small events from 1 July, will also include cancellation insurance for large events planned from September
Germany launches African museum exchange programme to discuss returning looted objects
New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution
Calling all numismatists! Biggest coin database in German-speaking world to go live today
The new resource provides images and data on 90,000 coins
German museums to receive up to €25,000 for research into their Benin bronzes ahead of restitutions next year
Grants are available for institutions with individual Benin artefacts or small collections
Germany pledges to return Benin bronzes to Nigeria starting in 2022
“We are facing up to our historical and moral responsibility”, says culture minister Monika Grütters
Global survey: where in the world are the Benin bronzes?
Around 160 institutions hold looted Benin artefacts, but how many are prepared to give them back? We asked museums in five countries for their position on restitution
'We've had a lot of museums reaching out': how Nigeria is getting ready to receive the world’s Benin bronzes
With institutions across the globe rethinking their views on restitution, the African country’s focus is now on making a home for its heritage
Museums weigh in on the vaccine passport debate, as countries are under pressure to open up their economies
As Israel and Denmark introduce Covid-19 status certificates, institutions are concerned that government schemes may keep visitors away
Rocket man: Uli Sigg on how he began collecting art while working in North Korea
“There will be some protests,” predicts the Swiss collector ahead of a Kunstmuseum Bern show of works from both sides of the Korean border
German parliament’s “emergency brake” closes Kusama show, threatens Gallery Weekend
Measures to counter the third wave of the pandemic force museums in high-incidence areas to close
Sotheby's to sell $2m Meissen porcelain collection restituted by Dutch government to heirs of Jewish industrialist
The collection of 18th-century porcelain was previously exhibited in Dutch museums
Dutch museum settles with Jewish businessman's heirs on painting sold in Nazi era, defying government panel
The agreement overturns the Restitution Committee's 2013 rejection of the claim, which argued the painting was worth more to the museum than the heirs
UCLA’s Fowler Museum to reach out to Nigeria about returning its Benin bronzes
As restitution momentum builds, director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art says it could lead discussions for the return of looted Benin objects in US museum collections
Humboldt Forum to show Britain’s 1897 violence and plunder in Benin exhibition next year
The exhibition will include around half of Berlin’s collection of Benin bronzes as Germany lays groundwork to return them to Nigeria
German Nazi-looted art panel recommends return of Franz Marc’s Foxes to heirs of Jewish banker
The decision on whether to return the painting, which hangs in Dusseldorf’s Kunstpalast, will be made by the city assembly in April
Benin bronzes: looted treasures will return to Nigeria at last
Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray
German culture minister seeks 'national strategy' on Benin bronzes, including restitution
Monika Grütters says she will meet museum directors and trustees next month
University of Aberdeen to return Benin bronze looted by British troops to Nigeria
The sculpture of an oba’s head was “acquired in a way that we now consider to have been extremely immoral,” the university says
‘The movement is unstoppable’: African scholars and activists hail German plan to return Benin bronzes
“There is simply no moral ground for the confiscation of African artefacts in Western museums,” says the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe
Birthday Beuys: Stuttgart kicks off Joseph Beuys centenary events and exhibitions
Exhibition at Staatsgalerie revisits the artist's curated opening of the museum's new building, while 20 other institutions are planning shows on the artist
Germany moves towards full restitution of Benin bronzes
The head of the German foreign ministry’s culture department visited Nigeria last week for discussions with the Edo State Governor
Museums in Poland and Germany forced to close—again—as third pandemic wave hits Europe
Some countries are operating a system based on regional coronavirus case numbers while others have gone into full lockdown
Gerhard Richter to loan Holocaust works—that he vowed never to sell—to new Berlin museum
Loan of over 100 works to future museum of Modern art encompasses Richter’s Birkenau series, the fruit of a decades-long quest for an artistic response to the Holocaust
Berlin dealer Johann König opens new space in Seoul
Opening next month, the new space will include a sculpture garden on a roof terrace