Both foreign and domestic art galleries benefit from the discount
A contract transferring ownership to Nigeria is planned for spring 2022
Ambassadors from eight countries—Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Peru—whose heritage was included in the sale launched a united front against it, with calls for Unesco to intervene
A previous version of the show was due to open in 2018, but was cancelled at short notice. Now it is being shunned.
Government has established €600,000 three-year pilot project called NEXUD to combat illegal trade in antiquities
The gallerist was ill at home in Bad Münstereifel, one of the worst-hit towns
A team from the Cologne City Archive has sent emergency aid to Stolberg
After almost two years of delays, the ambitious museum complex launches its first in-person exhibitions
An exhibition opening at the Cincinnati Art Museum reveals how 14 major museums found themselves caught up in a “morally dubious” tour of Germany's art treasures after the Second World War
Discovery contradicts commonly held belief that these archaic humans were incapable of creating aesthetic items
Move addresses "investment backlog" for upgrades to cultural sites in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia
A Chinese collector bought the 15th century gold and bronze Ming-dynasty sculpture of the god Vajrabhairava earlier today
The opulent Palais Oppenheim in Cologne will host exhibitions and sales from September. Sotheby's says move is due to growing client base in country, not Brexit
The funding, available for small events from 1 July, will also include cancellation insurance for large events planned from September
New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution
The new resource provides images and data on 90,000 coins
Grants are available for institutions with individual Benin artefacts or small collections
Nightlife and live music venues across the country now have the same legal status as museums and opera houses
“We are facing up to our historical and moral responsibility”, says culture minister Monika Grütters
Measures to counter the third wave of the pandemic force museums in high-incidence areas to close
The exhibition will include around half of Berlin’s collection of Benin bronzes as Germany lays groundwork to return them to Nigeria
Monika Grütters says she will meet museum directors and trustees next month
“There is simply no moral ground for the confiscation of African artefacts in Western museums,” says the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe
Exhibition at Staatsgalerie revisits the artist's curated opening of the museum's new building, while 20 other institutions are planning shows on the artist
Germany's plans to return the artefacts are just the beginning of a necessary undoing of the art world's white infrastructure
The head of the German foreign ministry’s culture department visited Nigeria last week for discussions with the Edo State Governor
Loan of over 100 works to future museum of Modern art encompasses Richter’s Birkenau series, the fruit of a decades-long quest for an artistic response to the Holocaust
Ernst August Sr, Prince of Hanover, claims that his son went behind his back to seize control of his estates
New examinations of John the Baptist wall paintings in Augsburg cathedral date them to more than 1,000 years ago