Curator voluntarily collaborates with Italy in accordance with museum’s policy

Christie’s, US Customs, a bankrupt dealer, hoards of lawyers, and much time and money played a part in this

No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected

Weimar, Cultural Capital of 1999, negotiates over its cultural treasures

Works acquired in a “suspicious manner” will begin to be returned at once

After an emergency ruling, the Louvre retains five Italian paintings that were salvaged after the war and the aggrieved Gentili family must now await appeal. Meanwhile, the Musée national d’art moderne has approved the return of more works

Disputed Degas to go to the Art Institute of Chicago

Restitution claims for the Lubomirski and Ossolinski collections are complicated by the history of Lviv’s occupiers

The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing museums and private collectors who may find themselves having to prove good title to their possessions

A relation of the Polish painter Tadeusz Pruszkowski, who died in 1942, has asked Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, to hand over seven Polish paintings and four tapestries, but the Jesuit Institution says the objects properly belong to it

Veteran’s reluctant admission of taking plunder clinches case

Montreal museum maintains they bought the Vasari in good faith

Jackie’s companion targeted for buying $1 million of hot Greek body parts

1829 Kipresnky painting was taken to Berlin in the 1940's

The return may be even more complicated than during the Fascist era

It is alleged that they were stolen from the collection of Cino Vitta, head of the Jewish community in Florence during the war

Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives

A survey touching all the bases: losses, recoveries, legal debates, cultural restitution

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and its former director, Alan Shestack are castigated in the press

A Foujita, a Picasso and a Gleizes revert to the descendants of the owners–but over 1000 works remain homeless

Russian parliament voted last month to override President Yeltsin’s veto, putting him in a precarious political position

“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home

Watercolours and drawings seized by the Red Army in a Berlin bunker in 1945 have been on show in the Hermitage earlier this year for the first time

Grant shares with The Art Newspaper his conversation with Julian Spalding of the Kelingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow

But negotiations continue between Chancellor Kohl and President Yeltsin

A radical change of policy as new director of antiquities takes over

Artifact had been missing from Bologna since 1940

This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany