The case of the Birds' Head Haggadah is the first time a museum in Israel has faced a restitution lawsuit for an object allegedly lost in the Holocaust

Spider IV will be offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong contemporary evening sale later this month

The two manuscripts were returned in a pink gift bag with a message that read: "Happy Easter X"

Oil price increases and the inability to fly over Russian airspace has made sending art abroad, especially between East Asia and Europe, much more expensive

Our pick of the highlights from April's fairs and auctions

Corresponding digital renderings of the lunar-bound works will be sold as NFTs, obviously

The $17.4m scheme in Bihar has resulted in 33,000 young visitors to its main museum in Patna in a year

Paris+, by Art Basel is due to run until at least 2028

The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold

The artefacts, from the 16th and 18th centuries, were discovered in Barakat Gallery and were voluntarily handed over to police

The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years

An expedition team has located the famed shipwreck in what has been described as a "milestone in polar history"

Back-to-back auctions, with works from Degas to Banksy, brought in a total of £221m

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the Museum of Local History in Ivankiv had been set on fire by Russian forces

Our pick of highlights from forthcoming auctions and fairs

Ridley Road Project Space, which ran for six months in Dalston, will close in March

Russia has warned of "legal repercussions" for taking part in anti-war demonstrations

The first full edition of Spain's leading art fair since the start of the pandemic saw a near-return to form with strong institutional presence

The works, by artists such as Warhol, Richter and Giacometti, will be sold in New York in May

Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month

Victor Ehikhamenor's towering work has been placed beside the building's memorial to the man who led the plunder of the Benin bronzes in 1897

Replicas of works from four institutions, including the Uffizi, will be sold as NFTs by Unit London gallery

Work by Anna Leporskaya from the 1930s is undergoing restoration after "lapse in sanity" by museum employee during first day on the job

The world's most lucrative award for craft will announce its winner in a ceremony in Seoul this June

The London gallery has made a name for championing underserved voices in the art world and will open its new space with Morris dancers and the "smell of Yorkshire"

The Buzzfeed News journalist Katie Notopoulos has named Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow as the men behind the online pseudonyms "Gordon Goner” and “Gargamel”

The secretive crypto collective Yuga Labs is reportedly in talks with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to sell a multi-million dollar stake

Our pick of the highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions

This year’s commissioner hopes the absence of government funding might help them avoid the disaster of the nation's 2019 pavilion, which was cancelled amid “corruption” allegations

Eternal Notre Dame will raise funds towards the €1bn restoration of the fire-ravaged cathedral