Plus, craft and American identity and critic Michael Peppiatt on Frank Auerbach

Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments

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

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

While the West continues to grapple with its colonial past, institutions from Togo to Cairo are creating more expansive models to celebrate art

Decision comes as scrutiny mounts over the university’s colonial legacy, including at Oriel College where a commission on Cecil Rhodes monument has been delayed

Vote by National Assembly paves the way for the return of 27 colonial-era artefacts to Benin and Senegal within one year, but “will not create a legal precedent”

Alarmed post-colonial researchers have raised concerns over plans to open Museo Italo Africano "Ilaria Alpi" in late 2021

Plus, artist Chantal Joffe on a poignant painting by Paula Modersohn-Becker

Move follows release of National Trust’s slavery report, which was accused of following a ‘woke agenda’

Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza, fined €1,000 earlier this month, will go to court again later today

Bénédicte Savoy—co-author of the Sarr-Savoy report that recommends France return its African artefacts—warns of "collective amnesia" over restitution debates that happened 40 years ago

Measures agreed by government and states include a set of common standards for digital registers

The report calls for a new panel to advise the minister on repatriations and a new provenance research centre

Review of state art collection is part of move to make it “more representative of diversity”

New text accompanying object removes mention that it was collected by Captain James Cook but museum says it doesn't alter its significance

As part of the museum's efforts to address Britain’s colonial past, officials acknowledge that the collector "exploited slaves"

Only by looking backwards can we start to tackle inequality in the arts sector, says Gus Casely-Hayford, the director of V&A East

Culture ministry launches open call for monument that will be sited near the Musée du Louvre

Thousands of protestors are demanding removal of statue of the Victorian imperialist from Oriel college

London institution was criticised for proclaiming that it "stands in solidarity with the Black community" while continuing to resist calls to restitute colonial-era loot

Once it is fished out of the water in Bristol, the statue of the 17-century slave trader should go in a museum. But what kind of a museum?, asks writer Bonnie Greer

Controversial statue was dismantled and thrown into the harbour during a Black Lives Matter rally

Kang Sunkoo’s bronze Statue of Limitations shows a black flag at half-mast

Suggestions from controversial Savoy-Sarr report were all-but buried at a conference held in Paris

Hartmut Dorgerloh says institution will discuss presentation of non-Western art “together with critical friends and the communities”

Show of Marc Erwin Babej’s work comes as Namibia calls on Germany to return cultural treasures

The Iraqi-Kurdish artist examines migration and contemporary politics in his solo show at the New Museum

Imposing open-air work made of African farming fabric opens at New York fair this week

The German Lost Art Foundation, which also looks into Nazi-loot, will allocate the government grants