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The contemporary art fair makes it mark with a ten year lease on Marx Halle
Illuminating historical overviews and a mass of documentary research covers an under-studied subject
Stop the press!
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
But critics say the focus should be on how provenance research can be carried out efficiently and rapidly
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
The database of all art with questionable provenance is now online
“Morally, this is a gain for Austria” not a loss, says Maria Altmann
Maria Altmann had urged an earlier trial date while in dispute with Austrian government
Maria Altmann is attempting to reclaim six Klimt paintings looted by the Nazis
This important book gives a full documentation for the Jewish art collectors of Vienna whose goods and lives were targeted by the Nazis
The Justices rule six to three in favour of Maria Altmann. She can now pursue her case in American courts
The Bush administration argues that Austria cannot be sued in a US court because it would interfere with foreign relations
An American citizen is claiming six Klimts from the Nationalgalerie in Vienna alleged to have been seized from her uncle by the Nazis and then unlawfully retained by Austria after the war
Heirs will have to sue for the painting, which is currently being held at Dorotheum
This year’s 15th Ars Electronica, the Austrian digital arts competition, is as strong as ever, despite the fact that the digital revolution has been going through its first real crisis
Show demonstrates the aboriginal passion of an Austrian collector
The Austrian Parliament decided that full restitution should be made to victims of the Nazis and to those who had been coerced into giving works after 1945 to the museums - but the advisory council has twice taken its own, negative, line
The paintings are claimed to have been stolen from their rightful owners during the Nazi annexation of Austria
The council on looted art has postponed its decision on whether to return five paintings in the Oesterreiches Galerie to the granddaughter of Alma Mahler-Werfel
Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks
“Andy Warhol: A Factory”, Kunsthalle at Karlplatz, Vienna, 5 February-2 May
The stands in this fair cost only SFr 4,000
8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach
Austrian support for the Kurds leads to friction over archaeology
Old historical ties revived as the Kunsthistorisches Museum, with government blessing, devises a conservation package
In 1933 Nazism, drove a band of original and profound scholars to settle in Britain. Out of these elements grew the world famous Institute, whose approach to the past has incomparably enriched the understanding of art. Will the 1990s see this living intellectual force stifled by British government meanness and philistinism?