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

The panel finds Tate has legal title to a war-loot picture but agrees that the claimants should be compensated on ethical grounds

A lawyer’s comment on the RA's 'From Russia' exhibition and the laws that were pushed through to protect it

Museums in the US and Israel contain Judaica from pre-World War II European Jewish communities, redistributed by the Allies who thought this the best solution for material taken from people and institutions that no longer existed

A medieval stained-glass window to return to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, while Germany will pay for the rebuilding of a 14th-century church in the Pskov region

The Art Newspaper has tracked down further details of what happened to the twelfth-century manuscript during World War II

Does this mark a change of direction for initiative, which previously only recorded losses?

In 1954 Knoedler sold picture stolen from Paul Rosenberg by Nazis