Shipping company executive S. Vijay Kumar was responsible for recovering a Buddha stolen from India 57 years ago among many other looted works

The original owner, Alfred Flechtheim, fled the Nazis in 1933 after a stream of anti-Semitic attacks

The work, seized by the pro-Nazi Vichy government, had been lent to an exhibition at the Musée Marmottan

“It shouldn’t be entirely up to us,” says Daniel Birnbaum, the director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, which recently restituted a Kokoschka painting

The Italian state has a permanent right to confiscate illegally exported work

Granddaughter of Jewish collector flies in for restitution ceremony

The 1910 portrait of a marquis was sold by Alfred Flechtheim’s employee after the dealer fled Nazi Germany

Marei von Saher asks an appeals court in California to reconsider her case against the Norton Simon Museum

New book exploring work's provenance is a must-read for those interested in the contentious field of art restitution

The events that led up to the ruling in favour of the Norton Simon Museum after it was sued by the heir of Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker over ownership of the paintings

Decision should put decade-long legal battle between museum and heirs of art dealer Jacques Goudstikker "to rest"

The museum stands by its ownership of The Actor, which it says was never in the hands of Nazis

The preserved head was held in Cologne's Rautenstrauch Joest Museum of world cultures for 110 years

Lawyers for the Prussian Cultural Foundation argued that it was not “genocide” when the objects were sold in 1935

Congolese-born art collector Sindika Dokolo says this "long-neglected historical wrong" is finally being addressed—but more can be done

Sacred object taken by British troops in the 19th century is concealed inside an altar

After offering to return a work looted by the Nazis in exchange for his family’s former real estate, Khochinsky was placed under house arrest in New York and faced a 10-year prison sentence in Poland

Seized during the Ashanti war and long held by the London museum, the prized Ghanaian work is to be displayed in a new permanent gallery

An Italian judge has found that the work was discovered in Italian water, despite decades of rulings to the contrary

But the watercolours are currently at the centre of a closely watched restitution lawsuit

"This may raise many important Holocaust issues for the French market," Christie’s says

Dundo Museum's lost objects were traced by the Sindika Dokolo Foundation

There appear to be no winners in what the Arts Council refers to as an “extremely unusual” case

The objects “do not belong in our museums”, says the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Culture Minister says colonial past has been a blind spot for too long

Heritage expert calls for new government taskforce to guide provenance research and even rule on restitution cases

The Mosse Art Research Project, a cooperation with the German government, identifies eight works and launches online database

Max Stern Foundation seeks reimbursement of costs from the German city

Ethiopian ambassador Hailemichael Afework Aberra told The Art Newspaper podcast his government wants the seized artefacts returned, not given back on long-term loan as proposed by the V&A

Martin Bailey speaks to Hailemichael Aberra Afework, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the UK, about the artefacts seized by the British army at Maqdala, go behind the scenes of the Sony World Photography Awards with judge Gareth Harris and ask Richard Parry about his plans for Glasgow International