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

While the Kann descendants have solid evidence for their claim, the Wildenstein family are confident enough in their story to share their own documents with The Art Newspaper

Leading expert on Nigerian antiquities warns that government and museum officials in the country are involved with the illicit trade of artefacts to the West

The exhibition disappoints and leaves the collector’s passion concealed

Political considerations, not humane motives or conservation considerations, were behind the Glasgow Museums’ recent return of the Sioux artefact, says former director

Change of attitude towards restitution requests may signal changes in UK law

Museum bought works after artist abandoned them in Berlin

Restitution guidelines in the UK are changing with the times, but the marbles remain with the British Museum for now

Former atheist goes to confession

The heir to the cosmetics fortune is creating his own museum and would like to see art returned to Holocaust victims, but how effective is he actually?

British and French authorities dismayed at disposals that they considered illegal

The Austrian Parliament decided that full restitution should be made to victims of the Nazis and to those who had been coerced into giving works after 1945 to the museums - but the advisory council has twice taken its own, negative, line

The restitution question was hardly mentioned, but it tautened everyone’s nerves

"Saved From Europe" commemorates the man who brought art condemned by the Nazis to the US and worked for the restitution of looted art

In the interests of future exhibitions, the New York Court of Appeals rules that Schieles on loan to Museum of Modern Art must be returned to the lender then a federal magistrate seizes one of pictures

The paintings are claimed to have been stolen from their rightful owners during the Nazi annexation of Austria

The council on looted art has postponed its decision on whether to return five paintings in the Oesterreiches Galerie to the granddaughter of Alma Mahler-Werfel

Constitutional court decides in favour of nationalists’ bill

The penalty of lying to customs

An important test case for museums dealing with war loss cases.

The Van Gogh drawing and Hans von Marées painting were part of a large collection which was forcibly auctioned

A Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed

Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks