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

The exhibition will include around half of Berlin’s collection of Benin bronzes as Germany lays groundwork to return them to Nigeria

The decision on whether to return the painting, which hangs in Dusseldorf’s Kunstpalast, will be made by the city assembly in April

Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray

Monika Grütters says she will meet museum directors and trustees next month

The sculpture of an oba’s head was “acquired in a way that we now consider to have been extremely immoral,” the university says

“There is simply no moral ground for the confiscation of African artefacts in Western museums,” says the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe

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

The head of the German foreign ministry’s culture department visited Nigeria last week for discussions with the Edo State Governor

Some countries are operating a system based on regional coronavirus case numbers while others have gone into full lockdown

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

Opening next month, the new space will include a sculpture garden on a roof terrace

Researchers will consider “various modes of return” for museum objects and how the process can help to reconcile with colonial past

Bern's Zentrum Paul Klee will devote an exhibition to the artist this summer

The fashion designer, who died in 2019, was an enthusiastic collector of art and design

In a surprise ruling, the government prioritises museum openings ahead of restaurants and sports facilities

Fondation Beyeler will shows Arp and Rodin while Kunstmuseum Bern has a show on Latin American political art

New examinations of John the Baptist wall paintings in Augsburg cathedral date them to more than 1,000 years ago

It is the 88th known surviving piece of Ru ceramic, one of which sold for $37.7m at Sotheby's in 2017

In a unanimous decision, the government’s advisory commission says it is likely the work was sold under duress

Law change follows refusal by some foundations to restitute property lost due to Nazi persecution

Some galleries received funding in the first package for exhibitions they can’t open in lockdown

The Dutch government adopts a committee’s “radical” guidelines, putting it at the forefront of European efforts to return colonial-era museum acquisitions

The bronze was taken because German law requires archaeological objects have export licences from the country of origin—but it was only travelling through to Austria from the US

Heirs plan to donate the work to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

“We do not want to create a big building that sits heavily” on this sensitive ground, says Robert Jan Van Pelt, one of the minds behind the project in Ukraine

Petition calls for more transparency in planned display of the collection of Emil Georg Bührle, who bought Nazi-looted art with a fortune built on weapons

As exhibitions are cancelled due to the pandemic, local artists are finding creative ways to show their art—and distract patients

Hamburg’s Kunsthalle to publish photographs of 843 paintings for free research tool

The musical scene was seized by the Gestapo in 1939 from Henri Hinrichsen, who died at Auschwitz