NewsMuseums & Heritage
Germany's Holocaust memorial sites fight against surge in far-right threats
Former concentration camps are being increasingly drawn into culture wars by “normal-looking” people challenging guides and disrupting tours
NewsRestitution
US Supreme Court agrees to hear Berlin museums' appeal in lawsuit over restitution of medieval treasures to Jewish heirs
Panel will consider museums' argument that a trial over rightful ownership of the Guelph Treasure cannot be heard in American courts
NewsNazi loot
US government recommends that the Supreme Court hear German museums’ appeal on Guelph Treasure claim
The solicitor general’s recent filing suggests the Nazis’ looting of Jewish collections in Germany was a domestic rather than international crime
NewsControversies
German art activists apologise for upsetting Holocaust survivors with monument containing human remains
Centre for Political Beauty concedes “mistakes,” says it will veil monument
NewsControversies
Art activists anger Holocaust survivors with Berlin monument containing ashes
Centre for Political Beauty says action targets conservatives open to allying with far right
CommentNazi loot
Holocaust-era art restitution: more complex than you think
A rush to judgement has resulted in notable errors with some "Nazi-looted" art having been purchased legally
NewsPodcast
A monument to the Holocaust in textile: Anni Albers’s Six Prayers
On this week’s podcast, we hear about the solemn memorial at the heart of Tate Modern’s survey of the Bauhaus artist
NewsLaw
Legal battle over Met's famous Picasso reignited by estate
The museum stands by its ownership of The Actor, which it says was never in the hands of Nazis
NewsLaw
Claim on Guelph Treasure can go to trial in US federal court
Lawyers for the Prussian Cultural Foundation argued that it was not “genocide” when the objects were sold in 1935
NewsLaw
New York judge orders two Schiele works sent to Christie’s, where they could be auctioned
But the watercolours are currently at the centre of a closely watched restitution lawsuit
NewsArt market
London dealer ordered to return Egon Schiele works worth $5m to heirs of Holocaust victims
Heirs's attorney describes ruling as step closer to recovering "largest mass-theft in history," but Richard Nagy plans to appeal
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Jane and Louise Wilson: Stanley Kubrick’s photographs brought to life
The sisters had access to the late film-maker’s huge archive and focused on a film about the Holocaust which never got made
ArchiveMarch 2008
Two new Holocaust memorials for Berlin
Parliament approves final budgets for monuments to homosexuals and Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Anselm Kiefer: “Expectations are always unfulfilled”
Anselm Kiefer on leaving his studio of 15 years, the commercialisation of art and why the Holocaust still matters
ArchiveProvenance research
1933-1948—the dangerous years: how Sotheby's check art for tainted provenance
A Sotheby’s lawyer describes the work of its provenance research team
ArchiveRestitution
Books: Restitution justice, American style
Two books reveal the complexities involved in restitution
ArchiveProvenance research
German museums commit themselves to provenance research concerning supposed Nazi loot
The younger generation has asked tough questions and come up with some answers
ArchiveProvenance research
"The AAM guide to provenance research" by Nancy Yeide, Konstantin Akinsha and Amy Walsh
A guide on how to best investigate provenance with specific emphasis on the specialist problems of the Holocaust-era, solvable using provenance research
ArchiveHolocaust
Can drawings produced in concentration camps be works of art or are they Holocaust documents?
A new exhibition looks at works produced by artists while detained by the Nazis
ArchiveProvenance research
“The Jewish people should be heirs to heirless art” says Knesset member, as plans are made to return Nazi-loot to rightful owners
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
ArchiveExhibitions
Should the new Holocaust gallery be a permanent feature of this museum?
The Imperial War Museum's exhibition is intended as a reminder of past evil
ArchiveSeptember 1999
A wound still festering at the heart of Germany
Parliament has finally voted to build Berlin's memorial to the Holocaust
ArchiveRestitution
Much piety and hot air at Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets
No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected
ArchiveNazi loot
Goodman restitution case settled out of court
Disputed Degas to go to the Art Institute of Chicago
ArchiveExhibitions
Breughel-Breughel exhibition marred as family battles over gallery established with funds of Nazi Alfried Krupp
The Krupps go to war again
ArchiveArt market
Christie’s to auction unclaimed works of art confiscated from Austrian Jews by the Nazis
8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach
ArchiveRestitution
Swiss bank accounts trace Nazi art deals
Newly declassified records track the deposit of Nazi assets in Swiss banks—they include references to works of art
ArchivePost-war
Fifty years ago: looking at the art and artists of 1945
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
ArchiveBooks
Books: Spiegelman's comics come to MoMA
Maus, the highly successful re-telling of the Holocaust, uses mice, cats and pigs as the protagonists
CommentLaw
The US Supreme Court’s silence on Nazi art theft fails Holocaust survivors
Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act
Sam P. Israel