On the one hand, official recognition, on the other, the problem of fakes

A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution

A survey touching all the bases: losses, recoveries, legal debates, cultural restitution

Books versus Basquiats?

Bernard Tschumi, Yoshio Taniguchi, and a team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre do Meuron are in the running

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and its former director, Alan Shestack are castigated in the press

The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.

“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home

As disgruntled museum staff strike, America’s most famous museum of modern art is trawling world-wide for a new architect

Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure

Fake rabbis rob Spanish monastery

The museum has been widely criticised by Californians for indirectly condoning the company's exploitation of addiction

Newly declassified records track the deposit of Nazi assets in Swiss banks—they include references to works of art

David D’Arcy reviews the rash of films about art and artists now being made in the US

The consignor of the piece remains unknown

Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment

900 works of art looted from Vienna’s Jewish community and stored in a monastery since 1955 to be sold on its behalf - It may be a PR nightmare for the auctioneers

Brother and sister of the US soldier who stole the Quedlinburg treasure to face possible imprisonment

The Andy Warhol Foundation is appealing the case, which will be heard in October

Former head of Museum of Modern Art and now chairman of Sotheby’s America sees no conflict between museums and the trade

Renoir makes his TV debut as controversy reigns over merchandising

The meeting produced revelations, but little hope that the return of looted art will be eased

But the process has stalled as far as large-scale restitution between Russia and Germany is concerned

Plans may be afoot to buy hotel next door

The announcement comes after more than a year and a half of searching for a new director

Hungary's appeal of the verdict that was reached in spring awaits a decision

At 83,000 square feet it is bigger than the Whitney

The judge’s ruling resolves the crux of the legal war between the foundation and the lawyer for Warhol’s estate

Christie's in the dock over whether Warhol's estate is worth $220 million or $558 million