Catherine Hickley
Catherine Hickley is the Museums & Heritage Editor of The Art Newspaper
Ehrhardt Bödecker’s family requested the removal after his “militaristic, anti-democratic and in some respects, radically right-wing and antisemitic” views became public
The 13 Mayan objects were handed back in a ceremony in Berlin today
“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says
Analysis of the work—stolen in East Germany’s biggest art heist—suggests that it was painted by the Old Master rather than others in his studio
Fair organiser is working with police and Swiss cyber security authorities to identify perpetrators of malware attack on 20 October
The bequest from the estate of the German photographer Ulrike Crespo includes 90 works and will go on show in November.
Both foreign and domestic art galleries benefit from the discount
Figures indicate fewer museum thefts, more illegal excavations
The work was bought by Armand Dorville, a Jewish lawyer, but his heirs were forced to sell it at an auction in France
The Cavedone studies were among 750 drawings plundered from the Czech villa of Arthur Feldmann, a Jewish lawyer who died in the Holocaust
A contract transferring ownership to Nigeria is planned for spring 2022
New research indicates Hubert started the work but had to stop, so Jan took over
Although the German Expressionist was undoubtedly depressed, new evidence suggests that the artist could not have fired the gun that killed him in 1938
Limna valued a painting by Conny Maier at a third of the ticket price
Jens Haaning calls his conceptual work for the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg Take the Money and Run
Around 100 scholars have signed a petition to the city’s mayor arguing that Marc-Olivier Wahler is not the right person to run the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
A host of artists and activists have followed in the footsteps of the pioneering artist who would have turned 100 this year
Despite the success of the fair's first post-pandemic edition, galleries are weighing up the future
Though Covid-19 travel complications have kept many US and Asian collectors away, dealers report brisk business from the VIP opening
Opening on 9 October, the major building project turns the Kunsthaus into Switzerland’s largest art museum
The German capital is awash with exhibitions, performances and events after a quieter edition last year
Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary museum is to be led by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
Research “has proven that art can be beneficial for health, both mental and physical,” the city’s head of culture tells a Belgian newspaper
The first exhibition at the controversial new museum complex in Berlin unflinchingly confronts a controversial subject
The decision ends a bitter dispute that damaged the reputation of Dutch restitution policy
A previous version of the show was due to open in 2018, but was cancelled at short notice. Now it is being shunned.
Architect's Modernist masterpiece was “incredibly badly built” and took six years and €140m to restore to its former glory
Government has established €600,000 three-year pilot project called NEXUD to combat illegal trade in antiquities
Other Nazi sculptures seized in 2015 remain with the private collector who fought to keep them
The commission said the work's history touches four families who had been “oppressed, robbed, deported, driven to flee or murdered”