The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970
In a filing this week, the museum disputes the Manhattan District Attorney’s claim that the drawing was taken from the Austrian cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum by the Nazis
The museum’s latest repatriation comes as it ramps up efforts to audit the provenance of objects in its collection
The Balot sculpture will be in the Democratic Republic of Congo for six months, while a video of it shows simultaneously at the Venice Biennale
Conservative Robert Jenrick argues that proposed long term loans of disputed works is a legal fabrication
Mati Diop’s “Dahomey”, which won top honours at the Berlin International Film Festival, takes a pensive and unconventional approach to its subject
The repatriations to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia come as the museum continues to distance itself from Latchford and his late collaborator Emma C. Bunker
The changes will allow Germany to better meet its commitments under the Washington Principles, the country's culture minister says
Only seven nations have made major inroads in recovering property seized during the Holocaust, according to the World Jewish Restitution Organization
The museum insists that heirs to the original collector waited too long to file their claim for the valuable work on paper
Ethiopian Heritage Authority asked to contact vendor to request restitution of battle trophy taken following British expeditionary force's punitive siege of Maqdala in 1868
The museum switched off comments on one of its Instagram posts after it was flooded with calls for the restitution of the moai objects
Mark Jones also says BP deal is the ‘right one’ and announces recovered items show
An innovative agreement between the Metropolitan Museum, American businessman Leonard N. Stern and the Greek government led to the new display of 161 Cycladic antiquities at the New York museum
The Ackland Art Museum restituted a painting taken from a prominent Jewish collector via Nazi coercion
The two works on paper once belonged to Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer who was killed in the Holocaust
The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals leaves the heirs of Lilly Cassirer with few options to pursue their restitution claim
But her most important reform proposal faces opposition from the state of Bavaria
There are some very spurious arguments coming from those resisting the return of the marbles to Greece
Country’s culture minister calls for research into artefacts held by British institutions and also announces a Royal Academy show
Latest restitution of work by Cornelis van Haarlem is part of years-long campaign to reunite works with family of Dutch-Jewish dealer
The prime minister can now approve the return of remains of up to 500 years old, without having to pass a special law
The Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, released on 3 December 1998, are non-binding but nevertheless continue to enable the pursuit of justice
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office linked one of the works to Kapoor; another had been in the Rubin Museum’s collection
The war in Gaza casts a dark shadow over 2023
The annual Christmas cracker joke competition by the British TV channel Gold took a swipe at the theft scandal that rocked the institution
From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”
The snub comes after Kyriakos Mitsotakis raised restitution issue with Labour leader Keir Starmer
New panel is to find “fair and just solutions” for disputed works in museums