The deputy editorship of Die Zeit newspaper and a better pension prove too tempting for Michael Naumann

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?

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

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

Matisse Odalisque restored to the Rosenberg family

Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile

The works in question were smuggled out of Germany during the Nazi regime for safe-keeping

Painting, design, and decorative arts from Colonial times until the Second World War

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

This collection positions Lewis as an “anti-war war artist”

Recent developments in the restitution of looted artworks

Beuys drawings based on the Renaissance master’s famous Codices Madrid show revolutionary artist experimenting with the ideas of another

“Picasso and the War Years 1937-45”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 5 February-9 May

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

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

The State Paintings Collection has opened in Berlin’s Kulturforum

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

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

Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives

The collection was stolen during Nazi occupation of France

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

“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

But negotiations continue between Chancellor Kohl and President Yeltsin

Auction was an expression of piety, not of the art market

Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure

The crypt of the baroque Frauenkirche was reopened last month, with an altar by Anish Kapoor