In a unanimous decision, the government’s advisory commission says it is likely the work was sold under duress

Law change follows refusal by some foundations to restitute property lost due to Nazi persecution

Some galleries received funding in the first package for exhibitions they can’t open in lockdown

As exhibitions are cancelled due to the pandemic, local artists are finding creative ways to show their art—and distract patients

Hamburg’s Kunsthalle to publish photographs of 843 paintings for free research tool

Travel restrictions could derail preparations, making 2022 date impossible, Sabine Schormann says

Initiative by the Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh is supported by Dresden’s state museums

New Berlin arts complex suffers renewed setback in its problem-beset opening plans

The budget for 2021 allocates funding to preserve Berlin museum buildings, renovate the Bayreuth Festival theatre, boost provenance research and grant free admission to the Jewish Museum Berlin

Shops remain open in many countries even as museums are plunged once more into Covid-19 deep-freeze

Gardens of the Babelsberg Palace in Potsdam must be probed for undetonated explosives before further renovations can take place

More than 40 directors sign an open letter to regional governments saying museums should not be included in month-long coronavirus lockdown

Closing German museums would be “a hard blow for the institutions and society,” the country's museums association says

Mies van der Rohe’s steel-and-glass building is undergoing modernisation by David Chipperfield, including new air-conditioning, security, lighting and visitor facilities

The complaint also demands compensation for four further works by Mondrian no longer at the Krefeld museum

Sixty-three objects were sprayed with an oily liquid on 3 October at the Pergamon, Neues Museum and Alte Nationalgalerie

New exhibition reveals 22 falsely attributed works discovered in German museum's collection

Missing for 75 years, the large marble head, one of the artist's best-known works, was uncovered by chance during construction work at Kunsthaus Dahlem

Analysis by German archaeologists suggests that the piece was not part of the Bronze-Age hoard looted in 1999

Head of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, responds to an expert panel’s call to dismantle Germany’s biggest arts body

Plus, Jadé Fadojutimi on Laura Owens. Sponsored by Christie's

Government plans to buy 150 works to help overcome the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas voices “relief” at release of Hella Mewis, an arts manager living in Baghdad who works to promote young Iraqi artists

Hella Mewis, who works to promote young Iraqi artists, was abducted yesterday by unidentified men in the centre of the city

The vessels, containing 2,600-year-old mummified internal organs, are due to be sold in Munich tomorrow

Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says he hopes the organisation will no longer exist in five years

Former concentration camps are being increasingly drawn into culture wars by “normal-looking” people challenging guides and disrupting tours

With 2,000 employees, the foundation is the biggest arts employer in Germany

Panel will consider museums' argument that a trial over rightful ownership of the Guelph Treasure cannot be heard in American courts

Move means the venue can continue to operate as Berlin’s main contemporary art museum