Despite legislative relaxation, little progress has been made in returning art stolen during the Second World War since the 1950s

Jacques Schuhmacher, who worked on several key restitution cases at the London museum, has taken up the role of executive director of provenance research

The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on

Restitution dispute between Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia and Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association came close to a deal in 2020

The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

Canon Monsignor Michele Basso was investigated for fraud in 2000 after allegedly trying to sell fake works

Decades-old questions resurface as Whitney show dedicated to the artist opens in New York

Plus, a horror show in London and a Flemish masterpiece in Bruges

A Baptist minister donated a vast archive of Hopper memorabilia to the museum but some question how he acquired the works

A recent case, relating to the sale of work by the Abstract Expressionist, centred on the tension between client confidentiality and transparency; the solution is far from simple

The lawsuit claims the Manhattan gallery Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art is refusing to divulge the seller of 'Untitled (Red, Yellow, Blue, Black and White)' (1950), which has left the provenance incomplete and the painting unsellable

As work heads back to auction at Sotheby's, the provenance of the street artist’s Girl with Balloon is being questioned

The Ionides Scarab sold for $250,000 in April—but it may not have been the auction house’s, nor the consigner’s, right to sell the object in the US

Senegalese art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye says discussions and decisions about the restitution of African artefacts cannot be dictated by the West

Museum launches an online catalogue of 485,000 objects while curators comb through wartime acquisitions and works from former colonies

Researchers will consider “various modes of return” for museum objects and how the process can help to reconcile with colonial past

Petition calls for more transparency in planned display of the collection of Emil Georg Bührle, who bought Nazi-looted art with a fortune built on weapons

From Leonardo to Bacon, take your pick from a selection of essential texts on leading artists

The who, where and when of ownership can lead on to scholarly, ethical, legal and existential issues

Printed publications can quickly become obsolete, so the ease with which a digital document can be revised is a godsend—and that is what makes many uneasy

Advertisements said that the works were looted in recent years, but Met documentation shows that they have a much longer provenance

The rise of the online art market means due diligence on purchasing art is becoming increasingly complex

Ethical institutional practices such as staff equity and due diligence are essential investments, "not merely a luxury for flush times"

Manuscript sold at Christie's first live sale in London since the coronavirus lockdown, but academics say its ownership history should be more transparent

Victoria Reed, the provenance curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been sharing the history about a work from the collection each day on Twitter while the museum remains locked down

Hire of French art historian Emmanuelle Polack suggests a more proactive stance on Nazi-era provenance research at Paris museum

The painting, long the subject of an attribution dispute, is now at the centre of a legal conflict over ownership