Tens of thousands of works were taken and most were never returned, but Museo del Prado identified 166 from its collection and is leading the return efforts

Unusually, the objects will not be transferred to their country of origin but to the UK Institute of Jainology for deposit at the University of Birmingham

An anonymous family member tipped off the art detective Arthur Brand in the hopes that the work may be restituted to its rightful owners

The Lebanese billionaire cited Marc Restellini’s recently published catalogue raisonné as proof that this has all been a case of mistaken identity

Two West African musical instruments at the Fowler Museum were looted by British troops in the late 19th century

Procedures for returning objects will be “strictly supervised” and the law applies only to items illegally taken between June 1815 and April 1972

The case was decided in New York after 11 years of court battles

The group portrait by the Germany Impressionist is the tenth work the Bavarian State Paintings Collections has said it will restitute since its director quit a year ago in the wake of a scandal over Nazi-looted art

The new panel is intended to “shape ongoing and future restitution processes more effectively” and coordinate with counterparts in receiving countries

Expanded version of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (Hear) Act in the US fundamentally alters the legal landscape for both claimants and current owners

Nine of the objects will stay in Switzerland despite the change of ownership

Having a legal structure and policy that allows institutions to make moral decisions on returning objects is crucial

The objects’ return was delayed due confusion between the Nigerian state and the oba of Benin

The new Commission for Historically Problematic Cultural Heritage—whose remit also includes claims for cultural heritage that changed hands in a colonial context—will issue non-binding recommendations

The historic exchange between libraries in Paris and Mexico City is tied to the 200th anniversary of bilateral relations between the countries

Spending most of his life in slavery, David Drake was denied the right to benefit from his own creativity and so to be an artist in every sense—until now

The repatriations are linked to long-running investigations into looting at Bubon and other archaeological sites, as prosecutors in New York step up pressure on museums and collectors

Following the rediscovery of Nazi looted work in an Argentinian home, Alexander Herman asks how the art market can sufficiently root out toxic provenance

Legislation allows non-national museums established as charities to transfer property on a “moral basis” depending on its value

British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti have retuned objects to Ghana's Asante Kingdom

Ben Luke discusses the landmark agreement with a curator at the Boston museum, meets the team behind MoMA's new Lam show, and explores a new book on the children of the Renaissance

Amid Lagos Art Week and Lagos Photo, this event brought together cultural practitioners for wide-ranging conversations about African and Afro-diasporic art archives

The Vatican is working with the Canadian Catholic Church to return Indigenous artefacts

It is time for Congress to pass the new HEAR Act and for museums to deliver provenance transparency, writes Gideon Taylor, the president of the World Jewish Restitution Organization

The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements

"Auction" explores the tension between art and commerce through the true story of the discovery and sale of a 1914 depiction of wilted sunflowers

The work was restituted to the descendants of collectors Ludwig and Rosy Fischer earlier this year

Zack Polanski, the new UK Green Party leader, has big plans for the culture sector, while Reform’s Nigel Farage is giving little away

Some of the artefacts were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of ongoing investigations into the activities of smugglers Robin Symes and Eugene Alexander

Caribbean repatriation puts flora and fauna on the cultural identity and property agenda