Nicholas Galanin’s work takes the form of a wrecked Spanish galleon, its sails emblazoned with questions the artist says are “a call to awareness and action”

The grandchildren of Ras Desta Damtew, an Ethiopian general and noble, are seeking to recover the piece, listed in the online auction catalogue as coming from the estate of an Italian soldier who was present at Desta Damtew’s execution

The city has returned 68 objects to Indonesia, a former Dutch colony

The British-Guyanese artist will place five masts in front of the depiction of Leopold II, whose administration was characterised by “systematic brutality and atrocities”

The headline-making director-general of Unesco, who clashed with Reagan and Thatcher, died recently at the age of 103

Max Pinckers worked together with Kenyan war veterans to bring records of 1950s colonial violence to the fore

Sandra Gamarra Heshiki references 17th-century European paintings in her investigations of Spain’s colonial past and its ongoing repercussions

Shawky’s work for the Biennale, involving 400 cast and crew, recounts a 19th-century anti-colonialist uprising

The few remaining houses that recall New Amsterdam are also reminding visitors of the overlooked histories of local Indigenous and Black communities

A collection of essays and biographies takes an innovative approach to exploring the RA’s role in creating a canon of art founded in empire and enslavement

New panel is to find “fair and just solutions” for disputed works in museums

Wide-ranging nationwide survey will catalogue artefacts held by monasteries and convents that were collected by missionaries in Africa, Asia and South America

Stanley C. Hunt’s memorial monument features carvings of 130 faces, representing Indigenous children whose remains were found in unmarked graves near a school site

A level-headed survey of the rise and fall of anthropological and ethnographic collections and what their futures may hold

Calling out the injustice of colonialism and following it up with "serious debate and concrete actions" is Austria’s responsibility, says culture secretary

Cameroon has set up a restitutions committee to work with the museums

Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading"

Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

This account of the theft of a South Seas cultural treasure by German colonists in the late 1800s reveals a series of atrocities

Grada Kilomba's multilingual work is part of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House

Twenty years since its conception and at a cost of around €680m, the new German museum must now follow through on its restitution promises

Ken Lum’s bronze statue, completed years ago but never installed, was deaccessioned by Edmonton for fear that it “may cause harm”

Major restitution development coincides with publication of new Arts Council England guidelines

The work, depicting the Lieutenant-General Thomas Picton, is now on display as part of an exhibition reframing his legacy

Charity Commission could veto the decision to repatriate objects from Ashmolean Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Iwantja Arts sits in the heart of the outback, while its members use art to connect with one another and the rest of the world

More than 1,100 looted items will be transferred though some artefacts will remain on loan to German museums

Berlin Biennale conference will focus on "decolonising" arts and culture

Ahead of his major retrospective at the Royal Academy this autumn, South African artist says Britain needs "imaginative solutions" for colonial era statues

Five years ago President Macron took the museum world by surprise when he announced a then-revolutionary restitution plan. Now the country’s politicians are at odds about how to implement it