A suit has been filed in a US federal court for 14 paintings in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam

A legal loophole may enable the restitution to Germany of a collection taken to the USSR by a Soviet army officer in 1945

Lawsuit against Kimbell Art Museum was dismissed last November

After the tomb was discovered, Iran's Ministry of Culture were unable to prevent civilians from systematically emptying them of artefacts, which were then shipped overseas

It is now an offence to handle an object if you know that it was illegally removed from a site anywhere in the world after 2003

The agents who had investigated stolen art will now work on cases related to terrorism and fraud

Unlike the heirs of Nazi victims, the descendants of collectors whose art was appropriated by the Bolsheviks are unlikely to have it returned

Knoedler's poor provenance research led to the return of a $3 million painting to Italy

A French plaintiff says he deserves a percentage of exhibition ticket sales at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art because the works on display were taken from his grandfather after the Russian Revolution

Two books reveal the complexities involved in restitution

Thousands of works in secret collection are now being claimed

Californian law may make restitution harder

The claim is for a bound 290-folio missal which appears to have disappeared in 1943

A claim brought against the Musée Carnavalet in Paris has an effect on US museums

Including a reproduction of the declaration in full

The British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles, Cambridge

The Acropolis museum is under construction, and the design for the permanent exhibition is in preparation

His comments go against the current clamour for restitution

New Acropolis Museum director Professor Dimitrios Pantermalis is calling on the British Museum to return its sculptures on long-term loan.

A look at what happened to the sculptures from early Christian times to the 21st century, and the damage to those remaining after Lord Elgin bought the majority of them

Heirs will have to sue for the painting, which is currently being held at Dorotheum

Is this the predicted 'chilling effect' on international loans?

Four drawings are being claimed by the heir of a Nazism victim

The Nigerian Head of State raided a museum to present her with a Benin bronze in 1973

To great tribal feasting, five American museums have returned totem poles stolen from an Alaskan tribe in 1899

Austria is not an adequate forum to resolve Nazi loot claim, says California federal court

After 54 years of procrastination, the Italian government could be close to returning the Axum obelisk to Ethiopia

The paintings seized by the Nazis, then the Communist government, may yet remain with the state

A Kyoto museum has accepted “symbolic” payment for restituting a work of art