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

As recalled by Dick Kingzett of Agnew’s

Newly declassified records track the deposit of Nazi assets in Swiss banks—they include references to works of art

The consignor of the piece remains unknown

Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment

Surprisingly resigned attitude to restitution claims by a leading German museum

Leading museum directors pessimistic

Brother and sister of the US soldier who stole the Quedlinburg treasure to face possible imprisonment

We publish here for the first time in English a sample of the huge quantity of works of art removed from Italy during the war. One brave man, Rodolfo Siviero, devoted years to tracking them down, but many are still missing. Can you help?

More roadblocks further slow the process

Peace was celebrated in Europe fifty years ago. As The Art Newspaper reaches its fiftieth issue this month, we look at the art of a war-torn world

As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow

After a long, strange journey, the Lubomirski Museum Dürers are now subject to restitutions claims by both Poland and the Ukraine

The masterwork at the Santa Maria delle Grazie re-opens to the public this month as restoration near completion