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Austria sets up expert panel to develop guidelines for repatriating colonial loot
Committee led by Jonathan Fine of Vienna’s Weltmuseum may pave the way for new legislation
Austria takes first step to return artefacts from colonial era
Though country was not a colonial power, major museums in Vienna have acquisitions of colonial goods
Why Onlyfans is not the solution for artists being censored on Instagram
More institutions and galleries ought to be fighting for contemporary creatives with the same passion that Vienna is fighting for long-dead ones
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
After major Klimt restitution by France, another work still vexes Vienna
Apple Tree II, once confused for Roses Under the Trees, was returned to the wrong family 20 years ago, leaving the heirs of its original owner facing huge obstacles to get it back
Sigmund Freud Museum reopens in Vienna after a €4m expansion
Family's private apartment, displays about psychoanalysis and collection of conceptual art go on view
Code-cracking lot: Second World War Enigma machine on offer at Vienna’s Dorotheum
The Germans believed Enigma was uncrackable; cryptographers at Bletchley Park broke the code, contributing to the Allies’ victory
Five European museum directors explain their reopening strategies
From capped visitor numbers to surgical gloves and temperature checks, here's how cultural institutions are getting ready to leave lockdown
Austrian culture minister steps down after coming under fire over pandemic response
Ulrike Lunacek was in office for less than four months
Austrian galleries plan cautious re-openings as government eases lockdown
“The doors will be wide open to let the sun in again,” says one Viennese dealer
Austria’s federal museums close to prevent coronavirus spread
Albertina delays planned opening of new Vienna museum of modern art
Will new €50m Albertina Modern museum revolutionise Vienna’s contemporary art scene?
Satellite venue of historic Albertina is to focus on Austrian and international art made after 1945
Like ‘Tutankhamun’s tomb’: first look inside emperor's sepulchre in 500 years reveals magnificent treasures
Discovery in Vienna's St Stephen's cathedral was made with photographs taken through a small hole in the marble
How the Habsburgs conquered by having arms rather than using them
New book and exhibition shows that the arms and armour of the Emperor Maximilian I were the visible signs of his chivalry
Austrian election campaign turns forest art stadium into political battleground
Unveiled earlier this month, Klaus Littmann's tree installation is Austria's biggest ever public work of art
Austria promises to return ancient artefacts to Russia that were taken as war trophies
An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War
Thomas Bernhard’s Old Masters as a graphic novel
The Austrian writer’s bilious attacks are neutralised by the cartoons
Curator will plant 299 trees in Austrian football stadium in statement against climate change
Klaus Littmann was inspired by a dystopian drawing created more than 30 years ago
Albertina Museum director defends landmark gift of Essl collection
Klaus Albrecht Schröder says contemporary art acquisitions, criticised by Austrian Court of Audit, will fill a gap in country’s public museums
Austria returns wrong Klimt to wrong family
Painting of apple trees is pulled from exhibition after admission that its restitution was a mistake
The influence of Klimt in Central European art after the First World War
The adaptations and expansions of the Austrian painter in the nations of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austrian culture minister Gernot Blümel ‘is a no-show’, claims opposition
Austrian People’s Party politician has refused to schedule parliamentary culture committee meetings and has overseen a decline in the culture budget
Niko Pirosmani: the ‘vagabond’ who inspired the Russian avant-garde
The self-taught artist, whose work commands surprisingly high prices at auction, is the subject of an exhibition at Vienna's Albertina museum
Vienna Contemporary here to stay with decade-long venue booking
The contemporary art fair makes it mark with a ten year lease on Marx Halle
Pull up a pew: vast volume surveys church cabinetmaking in 17th- and 18th-century Austria
Illuminating historical overviews and a mass of documentary research covers an under-studied subject
From the archives: take a look at six of the best front pages published by The Art Newspaper
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Plant from Las Vegas gunman’s garden is at the centre of anti-gun exhibition in New York
The Austrian artist Martin Roth says the aim is to create a space to discuss violence in the US and help visitors, including school children, take action
Vienna museum director calls for time limit on Nazi-loot restitution claims
But critics say the focus should be on how provenance research can be carried out efficiently and rapidly
Leonard Lauder’s Klimt landscape belongs to me, says heir of Nazi victim
Georges Jorisch is represented by Randol Schoenberg, the lawyer who last year won his eight-year case against Austria for the return of five Klimts to California resident Maria Altman
Nazi war loot held in Austrian museums to be sold if unclaimed
The database of all art with questionable provenance is now online