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The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford has agreed to repatriate 39 pieces of human remains—primarily skulls—to the Indigenous Naga people, with the transfer to Nagaland, India, planned by...
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An Argentine federal court has ordered the restitution of a Nazi-looted Old Master painting, Portrait of a Lady, to Marei von Saher, heir to Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker. The...
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An 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis and missing since the 1940s resurfaced in August 2025 in a real estate listing for a home in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and an Argentine judge has ordered...
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The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has partnered with Ethiopia’s Ethiopian Heritage Authority (EHA) to facilitate the return of five Ethiopian objects from a private collection that lack provenance...
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Christie’s and Bonhams have raised buyer’s premiums, the fees paid on top of hammer prices, according to ARTnews. Christie’s changes take effect September 1, setting premiums at 28% up to and...
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Christie’s London will auction Wassily Kandinsky’s “Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life)” (1907) on 14 October during Frieze week, with an estimate in excess of $30 million. The painting was...
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A Connecticut court case over a Keith Haring drawing ended with the selling gallery prevailing after two major auction houses declined to handle the work due to insufficient provenance documentation....
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Two people were convicted in a Hamburg court on Monday for money laundering in a case that ARTnews said closely matches the investigation into German dealer Serop Simonian’s alleged Egyptian...
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Hyperallergic reviews the history of British colonial plunder of Asante gold and regalia through Barnaby Phillips’s book “The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante Treasure,” due in 2026....
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A Mixtec human skull decorated with turquoise, shell, jadeite, and quartz—displayed for more than 60 years at the Wereldmuseum in Leiden—was repatriated to Mexico in May 2025 and is now in the...
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Abstract painter Mary Heilmann died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York, due to complications from a fall, according to an Instagram announcement by her studio. Heilmann received her first solo...
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A new French law adopted in May has raised hopes in Senegal for the restitution of the long-disputed “treasure of Ségou,” a group of items taken by French forces in 1890 from the family of Omar...
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The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project (JDCRP), founded in Berlin in 2016, announced that it has added AI capabilities to its provenance research platform, Legacy Explorer, which launched last...
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The BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Philadelphia from August 6 to 9 with a lineup of 91 films centered on its theme of “a cinema for liberation.” Among highlighted works were...
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A sacred Ivorian “talking drum” known as the Djidji Ayôkwé, looted by French colonial troops in 1916, arrived on August 7 in its home village of Adjame in Côte d’Ivoire, where residents saw it for...
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The Musée du Louvre will lend 26 works from its Islamic art collection to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, for the exhibition From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic...
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The Australian Museum has returned 18 ancestral remains to the people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), according to a July 27 announcement by Chile’s National Cultural Heritage Service. The remains,...
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An ARTnews “Morning Links” roundup dated August 5, 2026 reported that museums are increasingly collaborating to purchase high-priced artworks they cannot afford individually, citing an Artnet News...
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The Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists (WAPA) filed a lawsuit on July 24 in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming against Interior Secretary Douglas J. Burgum and the...
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The Australian Museum in Sydney has repatriated human remains of Rapa Nui ancestors (Ivi Tupuna) to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), after they were removed in 1882 by a German naval expedition led by...
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Artnet News reports that researchers at Santa Clara University have launched the A.I. Provenance Assistant, a chatbot designed to help track and repatriate Nazi-looted art from the 1933–1945 period,...
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Researchers at Santa Clara University—management professor Michael Santoro and analytics professors Haibing Lu and Michele Samorani—launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research to help...
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A New York judge has ruled that billionaire art dealer David Nahmad may owe millions in prejudgment interest to the heirs of Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner in a Nazi-looted Amedeo Modigliani case...
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Hundreds of archaeological sites in Texas’s Big Bend region, including 6,000-year-old cave paintings, could be threatened by a Trump administration plan to expand the US–Mexico border barrier,...
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A Hyperallergic roundup reports that Cuban dissident performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was released after five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana and exiled to Miami,...
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The United States repatriated a group of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia on July 22 during a meeting in Jakarta between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel,...
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The Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans in France has launched a “Wanted” poster campaign to help locate 424 artworks missing from its collection, many looted during World War II. Among the most prominent...
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Bolivia’s Museo Nacional de Arqueología (Munarq) reopened in La Paz after a year-long renovation, unveiling a new permanent exhibition titled “Raíces eternas, legados vivos” (“Eternal Roots, Living...
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A Hyperallergic editor’s note by Hakim Bishara highlights recent coverage, including Erin L. Thompson’s investigation into a convicted antiquities dealer whose objects are held by dozens of US...
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Hyperallergic reports that actor Zendaya drew criticism for wearing earrings made from two 3,000-year-old Iranian gold discs at a London photocall earlier this month for Christopher Nolan’s...
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Bavaria announced new procedures for evaluating restitution claims involving Nazi-looted art, including the creation of a Center for Provenance Research and Restitution Issues of Nazi-Looted Art at...
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr.’s office announced the repatriation of three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one that had been seized from the Metropolitan Museum...
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A lawsuit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court alleges that Pierre Soulages’s 1958 painting Peinture 161 x 200 cm, 14 novembre 1958 was stolen from the Zeckendorf family decades ago and was...
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ARTnews “Morning Links” for July 16, 2026 highlighted a Financial Times profile of Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos, focusing on how New York City’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit has recovered...
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Bavaria approved reforms to how it handles Nazi-looted art claims, including moving provenance research out of museums into a separate, independent entity and creating a new panel to evaluate claims....
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Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after the work was linked to Phoenix Ancient...
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Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently repatriated a marble Roman portrait bust dated to the 2nd century CE after it was traced to Phoenix Ancient Art, a gallery...
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A July 13, 2026 Artnet News “Paint Drippings” roundup reported that New York investigators returned about $600,000 worth of looted art. The item also previewed upcoming fairs including Artissima’s...
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A painting depicting the interior of Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk and likely by Dutch Golden Age artist Hendrick van der Burgh has been identified as Nazi-looted property from the collection of Dutch...
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Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal theft charge for embezzling more than $600,000, according to the US Justice...
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Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned a Roman marble portrait bust to Turkey in February after questions about its provenance and its purchase from Phoenix Ancient Art,...
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Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia is exhibiting 1,194 pre-Columbian artefacts repatriated to Colombia between 2022 and 2026 during President Gustavo Petro’s outgoing administration, in a show...
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Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after it was seized by the Manhattan District...
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The United States returned two 8th-century bronze Buddha sculptures to Indonesia at a ceremony on July 8 at the Indonesian Consulate in New York, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday that 59 looted antiquities from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia have been returned to their countries of origin, including 45 objects seized...
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Italy’s parliament is advancing legislation to establish a formal process for restituting art and cultural property looted by the Nazis under Italian Fascist racial laws, according to reporting cited...
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Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts taken from Ghana during the colonial era, an announcement made at the “Next Steps” conference in Accra....
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Yemen’s General Authority for Antiquities and Museums said it identified 28 allegedly looted Yemeni artifacts in overseas collections, including eight recently offered at London auctions and about 20...
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London’s Classics Week Old Masters evening sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s totaled £76.7 million ($101.6 million), a 9.4% increase over the same auctions last year, according to Artnet News....
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After several antiquities were removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum has reached about $95 million,...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg removed dozens of antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total taken from the museum since 2017 to more than...
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Switzerland returned 23 artifacts to Nigeria this week, including 18 Benin Bronzes from the Geneva Ethnography Museum, the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, and the Ethnographic Museum at the University of...
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Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale in London, a 40-lot auction held Tuesday, totaled £38.9 million ($51.4 million), exceeding its pre-sale high estimate of about £37.5 million (estimates cited as...
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Three Swiss museums have returned 18 Benin Bronzes—royal and religious artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin—to Nigeria in a handover ceremony at the University of Zurich attended by Swiss Federal...
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Klaus Kallmann, a 98-year-old heir of German Jewish collector Felix Kallmann (1853–1938), is seeking the return of Vincent van Gogh’s Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889) from the Musée...
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Ireland’s Advisory Committee on the Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, formed in summer 2023, has issued a final report urging new laws and policies to address restitution and...
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An Irish government-appointed expert group has recommended creating a national panel to evaluate claims involving Nazi-era looted art and colonial-era objects held in public collections, alongside...
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Construction has resumed on Bogotá’s Museo de Memoria de Colombia after a three-year pause, but the project’s future has been thrown into uncertainty following the narrow election victory of...
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British artist, printmaker, and educator Tess Jaray—known for hard-edge abstract paintings and public art projects—died on May 24 at age 88, with the news first reported by the Guardian. Born in...
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Hyperallergic interviewed Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Matthew Campbell about his book The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy, which examines the...
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Ghana’s foreign affairs minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, announced that the Netherlands and Germany intend to return more than 2,000 cultural objects taken unlawfully during colonial conquests. At...
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The Art Newspaper reported that the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” advising artists on how to respond when...
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ARTnews reported that Germany and the Netherlands agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts to Ghana that were taken during the colonial era, with the announcement made at the Next...
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Artnet News published “What Sold at Art Basel” on 22 June 2026 as part of its Price Database coverage of the fair. The provided excerpt contains navigation and site links but does not include any of...
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A New York Supreme Court judge ruled on Tuesday, June 16, that billionaire dealer David Nahmad has 30 days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918), valued at more than $25...
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On 16 June, the New York Supreme Court ruled that dealer David Nahmad must return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918) within 30 days to Philippe Maestracci, grandson of Jewish dealer...
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Mexico’s government urged Sotheby’s New York to withdraw two pre-Columbian objects from its Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas sale scheduled for 18 June, saying analyses by the National...
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A Ukrainian drone strike reportedly damaged a 19th-century museum in Sevastopol, Crimea, a territory occupied by Russia since 2014, according to Sevastopol’s Russian-appointed governor Mikhail...
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A painting later identified as a work by Scottish Colorist F.C.B. Cadell sold for £189,200 ($254,000) at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh after being bought for less than $100 at a White Plains, New...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated two Khmer sandstone sculptures to Cambodia: an Angkor-period guardian deity (rākṣasa) dating to c. 921–945 and a mid-7th-century lintel carved with an...
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An Artnet News report traces how looted Cambodian antiquities from the 10th-century Koh Ker temple complex entered the international art market, arguing that ongoing demand sustains the trade. It...
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A fountain by German sculptor Georg Kolbe, the Tänzerinnen-Brunnen (Dancer’s Fountain), sold for a record €4 million (with fees) at Villa Grisebach in Berlin on 4 June, breaking the artist’s previous...
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Patricia J. Leahy, a South Carolina–based claimant to the Lieser family estate, filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court seeking restitution of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Margarethe...
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ARTnews profiled Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (born 1881 in London to Dutch parents), a painter and image-collector who collaborated with Carl Jung and founded the Eranos Foundation in 1933. After moving to...
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A report commissioned by the Netherlands’ Foundation for the Royal Private Collections examining about 1,000 objects found that a small number of items in the Dutch royal family’s holdings—such as a...
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Hyperallergic highlights Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which details how British dealer Douglas Latchford trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large scale...
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Hyperallergic reviews Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which traces how British dealer Douglas Latchford allegedly trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large...
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A Paul Cézanne watercolor, La Montagne Sainte Victoire (ca. 1888), shown in a recent Cézanne exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost by its Jewish owner due to Nazi-era...
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A provenance researcher working for the heir of Jewish businessman Gustav Schweitzer says a Paul Cezanne watercolour shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost due to Nazi...
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A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty of arranging the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, according to Hyperallergic. Brent Sikkema, 75, was stabbed...
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Artnet News reports that Studio 54 Fine Art, founded in Milan in 2016 by director Gary Williamson, is pursuing a flexible gallery model without a permanent brick-and-mortar space. The gallery stages...
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Spain’s 2022 law has begun enabling restitutions of art seized during the Spanish Civil War, decades after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975 and nearly 90 years after the 1936 conflict began....
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg announced that it returned 657 looted antiquities valued at nearly $14 million to India at a ceremony at India’s consulate in New York City....
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Hamburg has renamed its long-running Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal after evidence emerged that its namesake, Hans Harder Biermann-Ratjen, confirmed Nazi Party membership in a 1943 application to a...
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Guatemala’s cultural ministry has formally requested the repatriation from Mexico of a Maya limestone lintel that Mexico officially repatriated on 16 April after an unnamed US businessman brought it...
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Constantin Brâncuși’s Danaïde (1913), a bronze head formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, sold at Christie’s on Monday for a $93 million hammer price, totaling $107.6 million with fees and...
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Catalonia’s government has formally demanded €791,000 (about $920,000) from Aragón to recover costs tied to the value and upkeep of 56 artworks from the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena that...
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London’s Wellcome Collection announced plans to transfer 2,000 Jain manuscripts to the Jain community, with the materials moving to the University of Birmingham’s Dharmanath Network in Jain Studies...
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Art detective Arthur Brand announced that Toon Kelder’s painting Portrait of a Young Girl has been found hanging in a home near Utrecht in the possession of heirs of Dutch SS commander Hendrik...
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Russia is reorienting Moscow’s Gulag Museum away from documenting Stalin-era repression, a shift reported by independent outlet Verstka on 13 April as exhibitions were packed up and removed. The...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s “Required Reading” roundup highlights recent arts-and-culture commentary, including Zoé Samudzi’s ArtReview essay on “American Inquisition,” a mid-March exhibition of paintings by...
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A miniature wood-panel portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder depicting Friedrich III (“Frederick the Wise”) has been returned to the State Art Collections of Dresden after disappearing at the end of...
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Open Restitution Africa (ORA) launched its ORA Open Data Platform on March 31, providing a French- and English-language database focused on the restitution of African artifacts and ancestral remains,...
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Artnet News reported on 10 May 2026 that the Aspen Art Fair will return to Hotel Jerome from 29 July to 1 August 2026 for its third edition, featuring more than 35 exhibitors including Albertz Benda,...
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The Art Newspaper reviews international efforts to curb the wartime looting and illicit trade of movable cultural property, focusing on legal tools and their limits. It highlights the 1954 Hague...
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On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the repatriation of 657 trafficked antiquities to India, valued at nearly $14 million, following investigations by the D.A.’s...
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Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karolina Bankowska of Lawrence, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on April 28 in federal court in Brooklyn to a five-year scheme that sold more than 200 counterfeit artworks...
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An Artnet News report dated 1 May 2026 says the United States returned hundreds of looted antiquities to Italy. The excerpt provided does not specify the exact number of objects, the institutions...
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Brighton & Hove Museums in southern England is returning 45 artefacts to Botswana, including clothing, accessories, and hunting implements collected by the Reverend William Charles Willoughby in the...
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Robert Dunlap, 55, a Houston man, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for a cryptocurrency fraud scheme that claimed to be backed by masterpieces by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Vincent van...
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Christie’s New York will auction 16 works from the collection of late publishing magnate S. I. Newhouse (died 2017) on May 18 at Rockefeller Center, with the group expected to total about $450...
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Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karoline Bankowska of New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn on April 28 to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American-produced goods...
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Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie has completed digitising a high-resolution archive of glass negatives documenting hundreds of paintings destroyed in May 1945, when two fires swept the Friedrichshain flak...
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A Dutch government-appointed Committee on Heirless Jewish Looted Art recommended transferring guardianship of “orphaned” Nazi-looted objects in the Netherlands Art Property Collection (the NK...
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The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles is seeking to restitute an Asante drum and an ivory trumpet looted by British troops in late-19th-century Kumasi, Ghana, but both...
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The Emil Bührle Collection has been completely rehung at the Kunsthaus Zurich, where it has been on long-term loan since 2021, with 205 works on view in a display opening this week. The rehang...
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The Denver Art Museum has returned to Turkey a marble head of a bearded man that was stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna (present-day Izmir), an object Turkey says was unearthed in the city’s...
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The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has launched a free online digital catalogue raisonné, Access O’Keeffe, allowing the public to browse more than 2,000 works by Georgia O’Keeffe,...
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On 13 April, the French parliament adopted a new framework law allowing the deaccession and restitution of cultural items plundered from former colonies, nine years after President Emmanuel Macron...
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Artnet News reported that Greece approved a new law in January creating a specialized art-crime department within the Ministry of Culture to address forgery and antiquities trafficking, with tougher...
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London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) launched a new webpage on 8 April (International Provenance Research Day) titled “How have objects come to be in the V&A?” to highlight provenance research...
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A proposed French restitution law advanced after the National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee approved it on Wednesday, following unanimous approval by the Senate’s Cultural Affairs Committee...
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The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York has acquired Wifredo Lam’s Portrait of a Boy (1927), marking the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the institution’s permanent collection....
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A New York Supreme Court judge, Joel M. Cohen, ruled in early April 2026 that the estate of Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner is the rightful owner of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man...
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, has been accused by two former employees, speaking anonymously to Politico’s Irie Sentner, of altering language and programming...
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The New York Supreme Court ruled that Lebanese billionaire art dealer David Nahmad must return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918), a painting estimated to be worth up to $30 million,...
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Two former employees of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) told Politico that the Washington, D.C., institution altered website content and canceled or renamed programming in ways they believed...
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ARTnews.com reports that an 11-year restitution dispute over Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918) ended with a New York ruling against billionaire dealer David Nahmad and his family....
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Canada returned 11 Ottoman-era artefacts to Turkey—seven manuscript pages, two printed-work pages, and two modern calligraphy works—in what Turkey called the first official repatriation of cultural...
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The Bavarian State Paintings Collections announced it will restitute Lesser Ury’s 1883 painting "Interior with Children (the Siblings)" to the heirs of Curt Goldschmidt, a Jewish banker and art...
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The Jewish Museum in New York opened "Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds" on 20 March, but without its intended centerpiece, Paul Klee’s "Angelus Novus" (1920). The work, owned by the Israel Museum...
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On 30 March, the German federal government and the country’s 16 states agreed to create a new body to oversee restitution of cultural property and human remains held in public collections that were...
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The Pinakotheken in Munich announced it will return Lesser Ury’s painting Interior with Children (The Siblings) to the Jewish heirs of its original owner, Berlin banker Curt Goldschmidt, after...
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The US House of Representatives passed an expanded Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025 on March 16, 2026, after the Senate, and the bill is awaiting President Donald Trump’s...
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The Basque regional government has asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to approve a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which would be the painting’s first...
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In the ARTnews opinion piece “The MAGA Theory of Art,” the author argues that a long-standing idea—articulated by figures such as Susan Sontag in “Fascinating Fascism” and theorized by Walter...
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Hyperallergic reviews two feature documentaries about artificial intelligence that screened amid AI-focused programming at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, described as the festival’s last year in...
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Zurich has transferred ownership of 11 Benin Bronzes held by Switzerland’s Museum Rietberg to Nigeria, following a restitution claim submitted two years earlier by Nigeria’s National Commission for...
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Hyperallergic reports that Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” (1920) is missing—temporarily replaced by a reproduction—from the Jewish Museum’s exhibition “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds” because the...
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Mexico’s Ministry of Culture urged eBay to halt the sale of 195 pre-Hispanic archaeological objects that it says are illegally being offered by a U.S.-based seller, according to The Art Newspaper....
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The US House of Representatives approved an extension of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, a 2016 law intended to help families pursue claims for art stolen during the Holocaust,...
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ARTnews reported that a 350-year-old Vrindavani Vastra tapestry will return to India on loan from the British Museum. The textile, associated with Vrindavan and devotional narratives, is being lent...
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ARTnews.com reported that France has returned a looted “talking drum” to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire as part of ongoing efforts to repatriate cultural objects taken during the colonial era. The...
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Newly surfaced materials in the so-called Epstein files have highlighted connections between financier and major arts patron Leon Black and an antiquities dealer who has faced criminal scrutiny....
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A collection of 666 works by 135 Afro-Brazilian artists was voluntarily repatriated from a private collection in Detroit to Brazil’s National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (Muncab) in Salvador,...
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Portugal has returned looted antiquities to Mexico in what ARTnews described as a first for the country. The repatriation involved cultural objects identified as having been illicitly removed from...
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Christie’s will headline its London 20/21 Spring Evening Sale with a Wassily Kandinsky painting estimated at $21.3 million, according to ARTnews. The same sale will also feature a work by British...
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The Los Angeles exhibition “Monuments,” presented at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick, brings nine Confederate monuments into dialogue with works by 19 artists and received a five-star...
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ARTnews reported that a Belgian museum holding colonial-era records related to the Congo is facing a request for access from a minerals company seeking historical documentation. The article centers...
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"Relooted" is a new video game in which players join a group of vigilantes who reclaim looted African artifacts from Western museums. The game’s premise centers on the real-world issue of African...
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In an Art Law Corner column published 11 February 2026, Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law examines how the legal principle of “inalienability” restricts museums—especially in...
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On 10 February 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, announced it will deaccession and return three bronze Hindu sculptures to India after a provenance review...
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Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will return around 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria within months, The Art Newspaper reported on 9 February 2026, following a 2022 claim by...
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An open letter published amid controversy at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto calls for the resignation of trustee Judy Schulich, who is reported to have instigated a committee decision to...
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Jewish heirs filed a lawsuit in a French court challenging the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ownership of a painting by Camille Pissarro, according to ARTnews. The case seeks to contest the work’s...
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The documentary Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (2026), directed by Adam Khalil and Zach Khalil, follows Indigenous efforts to repatriate ancestors’ remains from US...
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ARTnews reported that a bill backed by French President Emmanuel Macron to facilitate the return of artworks looted during France’s colonial era has passed the French Senate. The measure is intended...
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has returned three sculptures to India after determining they were looted. The repatriation is part of ongoing efforts by museums to address gaps in...