More stringent regulations are posing provenance challenges and leading to legal battles
New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community
The two-part show reveals like never before how theft was used as a means of erasing Jewish identity, writes Ambassador (ret) Stuart E. Eizenstat, the chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and the curator Julie-Marthe Cohen
The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”
What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?
Keir Starmer’s Labour administration is reintroducing a bill that will allow the monument and accompanying learning centre to be built, after the project was challenged in the courts
A virtual museum in the popular game counteracts players who deny or distort the history of antisemitism
Survey at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is one of the first outside the US to examine the artist’s life and work
The heirs of Jewish dealers, who allegedly sold the medieval collection to the Prussian government under duress due to Nazi persecution, may appeal the ruling
The site of Babyn Yar, Europe's largest mass grave for victims of the Holocaust, was struck by Russian missiles in an attack on a nearby television broadcasting tower
Pioneering film is part of the first major retrospective of Maryan, the Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor now newly celebrated in death
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we spoke with Eyal Ilya, owner of Pentagon Auction House in Israel, about the trend for Second World War artefacts
Argentinian-American artist Mauricio Lasansky’s ‘The Nazi Drawings’, created in response to testimony from the internationally broadcast trial, are on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Show includes never before seen works by the prolific painter Maryan whose career went far beyond the Nazi atrocities he witnessed
Wolfgang Haney, who died in 2017, assembled 15,000 postcards, leaflets, photographs and more bearing witness to the persecution of Jewish people
A recent symposium in New York looked at how institutions can come up with new and innovative strategies for countering misinformation
Law change follows refusal by some foundations to restitute property lost due to Nazi persecution
In a unanimous opinion, it found the country cannot be sued for taking property from its own citizens, making it harder for the heirs of some Holocaust victims to recover art through the US justice system
“We do not want to create a big building that sits heavily” on this sensitive ground, says Robert Jan Van Pelt, one of the minds behind the project in Ukraine
Former concentration camps are being increasingly drawn into culture wars by “normal-looking” people challenging guides and disrupting tours
Panel will consider museums' argument that a trial over rightful ownership of the Guelph Treasure cannot be heard in American courts
The solicitor general’s recent filing suggests the Nazis’ looting of Jewish collections in Germany was a domestic rather than international crime
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
Centre for Political Beauty concedes “mistakes,” says it will veil monument
Centre for Political Beauty says action targets conservatives open to allying with far right
A rush to judgement has resulted in notable errors, with some "Nazi-looted" art having been purchased legally
On this week’s podcast, we hear about the solemn memorial at the heart of Tate Modern’s survey of the Bauhaus artist
The museum stands by its ownership of The Actor, which it says was never in the hands of Nazis
Lawyers for the Prussian Cultural Foundation argued that it was not “genocide” when the objects were sold in 1935
But the watercolours are currently at the centre of a closely watched restitution lawsuit