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Picasso Sketch Stolen
6th Jul, 2011An original Picasso artwork worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was taken from a San Francisco art gallery Tuesday morning in a brazen daylight heist, according to police and the gallery.A man walked into the Weinstein Gallery in the 300 block of Ge... Click for more...
Thief Checks Out Leger From Carlyle's Helly Nahmad Gallery
6th Jul, 2011Thief Steals Léger From Helly Nahmad Gallery: Someone crept into the Carlyle hotel between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. yesterday and stole Léger's 1917 "Composition aux Element Mecaniques" from the gallery, which is based on the hotel's first floor. No arrests... Click for more...
Was Kimbell statue hiding a sordid sales history?
29th Jun, 2011Robert Edsel, author of Rescuing Da Vinci and The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History was flipping though photographic archives when he came across what he calls "a smoking-gun photo." It showed the Kim... Click for more...
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Reaches Restitution Deal
27th Jun, 2011The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston said it would pay an unspecified amount to the heir of an art dealer who was killed at Auschwitz and will keep a 17th-century Dutch painting in its collection that was once owned by the dealer and likely seized by the ... Click for more...
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Reaches Restitution Deal
27th Jun, 2011The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston said it would pay an unspecified amount to the heir of an art dealer who was killed at Auschwitz and will keep a 17th-century Dutch painting in its collection that was once owned by the dealer and likely seized by the ... Click for more...
Supreme Court won't hear looted-art claim against Norton Simon
27th Jun, 2011The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to take up an appeal from Marei Von Saher, who is trying to wrest a prized, 480-year-old “Adam and Eve” diptych by Lucas Cranach the Elder from the Norton Simon Museum, where the paintings have hung sinc... Click for more...
Supreme Court won't hear looted-art claim against Norton Simon
27th Jun, 2011The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to take up an appeal from Marei Von Saher, who is trying to wrest a prized, 480-year-old “Adam and Eve” diptych by Lucas Cranach the Elder from the Norton Simon Museum, where the paintings have hung sinc... Click for more...
Bulger arrest may yield clues on Gardner Museum heist
26th Jun, 2011The capture last week of Boston’s most sought-after criminal has given rise to speculation about the potential return of the city’s most sought-after art objects: the 13 pieces of artwork stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.http://a... Click for more...
Antiquities Ministry deny that artifacts had been stolen from the Museum in Cairo
24th Jun, 2011The Antiquities Ministry denied on Friday that some artifacts had been stolen from the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, in response to an Al-Ahram article implying otherwise."The circulated news that some antiquities were stolen from the Islamic Museum ... Click for more...
Restitution body doing 'nothing' for claimants
23rd Jun, 2011A Holocaust restitution organisation has been widely criticised by survivors and experts who say it has ignored compensation claims and neglected its duties.Backed by £300,000 of Czech Foreign Ministry funding, the European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESL... Click for more...
Record £24m sale ends family's battle over art looted by Nazis
23rd Jun, 2011Sotheby's set a £24.68 million record for artist Egon Schiele to close a 10-year scandal over a painting stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. 'Houses With Washing Lines', 1914, one of Schiele's masterpieces, was sent to auction in London b... Click for more...
Record £24m sale ends family's battle over art looted by Nazis
23rd Jun, 2011Sotheby's set a £24.68 million record for artist Egon Schiele to close a 10-year scandal over a painting stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. 'Houses With Washing Lines', 1914, one of Schiele's masterpieces, was sent to auction in London b... Click for more...
Holocaust-Looted Art: A Changing Legal Landscape
22nd Jun, 2011In recent months, the United States federal courts have grappled with a spate of cases addressing the restitution of Nazi-looted art. Arguably the best-known of these cases, United States of America v. Portrait of Wally, involving a painting by Egon Sc... Click for more...
How Obama ‘rescued’ Kenya’s stolen art
21st Jun, 2011US President Barack Obama intervened to have an American university return artefacts stolen from Kenya. The theft of vigango was widespread as “there are lots of them in universities, museums and even homes in the US, United Kingdom, Italy and elsewh... Click for more...
Vienna's Leopold Settles With Heir on Nazi-Looted Paintings
20th Jun, 2011Vienna's Leopold Museum said it paid an undisclosed amount to keep two paintings by Anton Romako in a settlement with the heir of a Jewish construction entrepreneur whose art collection was seized by the Gestapo before 1941.Read more: http://www.sfgate... Click for more...
Vienna museum told to return Nazi-looted art
13th Jun, 2011An art commission charged with returning Nazi-plundered works has recommended a Vienna museum hand over five drawings by Schiele to the descendants of a Jewish man. The drawings by Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) belonged to Viennese man Kar... Click for more...
Recovering Artwork Owned by U.S. Government
10th Jun, 2011In 1942, with World War II raging, the Library of Congress took the precaution of sending some of its national treasures to a guarded facility in the Midwest, including a collection of Walt Whitman’s papers, which were sealed in packing cases prior t... Click for more...
Recovering Artwork Owned by U.S. Government
10th Jun, 2011In 1942, with World War II raging, the Library of Congress took the precaution of sending some of its national treasures to a guarded facility in the Midwest, including a collection of Walt Whitman’s papers, which were sealed in packing cases prior t... Click for more...
Holocaust Records Project
30th May, 2011The Holocaust Records Project has the task of identifying, preserving, describing, and microfilming (now digitizing) more than twenty million pages of records created by the Allies in occupied Europe regarding Nazi looted art and the restitution of nat... Click for more...
Holocaust Records Project
30th May, 2011The Holocaust Records Project has the task of identifying, preserving, describing, and microfilming (now digitizing) more than twenty million pages of records created by the Allies in occupied Europe regarding Nazi looted art and the restitution of nat... Click for more...
Russia Bans Loans to US Museums
26th May, 2011Russia has banned loans to U.S. museums in retaliation for a U.S. district court ruling mandating that Russia return a trove of religious books and manuscripts to the Jewish group Chabad.http://clancco.com/wp/2011/05/in-retaliation-russia-bans-loans-to... Click for more...
Global records catalogue of Nazi-looted art published online
18th May, 2011The National Archives and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, along with other leading national archives and museums, signed a global agreement on 5th May in Washington DC to provide an international online catalogue of documentation on cultura... Click for more...
Decades-Long Dispute Over Ownership of Holy Text Archive Leads Russia To Nix Art Loans
18th May, 2011Russia has frozen art loans to major American institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Houston Museum of Natural Science over fears its cultural property could be seized.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjOYMzhrF3... Click for more...
Archive of artworks stolen by Nazis goes online
5th May, 2011Thanks to a deal between some of the world's leading archives and museums, an online catalogue of documents has been created to help families, historians and researchers track down artworks stolen by the Nazis. Under an agreement signed by organisation... Click for more...
Archive of artworks stolen by Nazis goes online
5th May, 2011Thanks to a deal between some of the world's leading archives and museums, an online catalogue of documents has been created to help families, historians and researchers track down artworks stolen by the Nazis. Under an agreement signed by organisation... Click for more...
Archive of artworks stolen by Nazis goes online
5th May, 2011Thanks to a deal between some of the world's leading archives and museums, an online catalogue of documents has been created to help families, historians and researchers track down artworks stolen by the Nazis. Under an agreement signed by organisation... Click for more...
Rutger's Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
24th Jan, 2011The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Unversity, has returned a rare early 16th- Century portrait of a young man, by the German Artist Hans Baldung Grien, to Simon Goodman, grandson of Friedrich and Louise Gutmann, Holocaust victims and previous owners of the Click for more...
Singer Boy George returns 18th-century icon to Cyprus' Orthodox Church
24th Jan, 2011Cyprus' Orthodox Christian Church on Thursday thanked former Culture Club singer Boy George for retunring an icon of Christ it says was stolen from a church in the breakaway north of the divided island. Click for more...
Switzerland publishes report on looted art
17th Jan, 2011The Swiss Culture office says museums need to intensify provenance research, in a report on looted art from the Nazi era. Click for more...
Holland Returns a Florid Brueghel Allegory, Once Looted by Nazis
18th Nov, 2010The Dutch government has returned Brueghel the Younger's "Allegory of Earth and Water" — also known as "Allegory of Life and Water" — to its rightful owners after discovering that the work had been stolen by Nazis during World War II.http://www.art... Click for more...
Holland Returns a Florid Brueghel Allegory, Once Looted by Nazis
18th Nov, 2010The Dutch government has returned Brueghel the Younger's 'Allegory of Earth and Water' — also known as 'Allegory of Life and Water' — to its rightful owners after discovering that the work had been stolen by Nazis during World War II. http://www.ar... Click for more...
British Library returns Beneventan Missal
15th Sep, 2010A 12th Century manuscript which was housed in the British Library is to be returned to Italy because it was looted during World War II. Click for more...
California Lawmakers approve Bill on Stolen Art Claims
1st Sep, 2010California lawmakers gave final approval Monday night to a bill that would extend the time period in which people can sue museums to try and recover what they believe are stolen works of art. Click for more...
Endowment funds flourish in France
16th Aug, 2010A French governmental provision enacted in 2008, known as a fonds de dotation, is helping museums raise funds privately. Click for more...
Museum Wiesbaden restitutes Dutch Baroque Painting
11th Aug, 2010On Tuesday, the 10th August 2010, the Museum Wiesbaden restituted the painting attributed to Dutch Baroque painter Pieter de Grebber (1600-1653) titled "Double Portrait of a young couple" to the heirs of Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer. Click for more...
UCL Institute of Archaeology returns ancient objects to Thailand
10th Aug, 2010Sixteen objects, thought to originate from the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Ban Chiang in Thailand, will be retunred to the Thia Department of Fine Arts by the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Click for more...
Leopold Museums pays $19 million to keep Egon Schiele's portrait of 'Wally'
21st Jul, 2010Austria's Leopold Musuem paid $19 million to the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray to settle a decades-long dispute over Egon Schiele's portrait of his lover Wally, stolen by the Nazis in the 1930s. Click for more...
Italian Police show latest recovery of looted art
16th Jul, 2010Italian police have recovered hundreds of ancient artifacts in their latest effort to crack down on the looting of art. Click for more...
Ulster Museum wins £100, 000 Art Fund Prize
30th Jun, 2010The Ulster Museum in Belfast has been announced as the winner of this year's 100,000 pound Art Fund Prize. Click for more...
Royal Cornwall Museum
30th Jun, 2010Museum makes £2 million from picture sale but funds still fall short. Click for more...
Stolen Caravaggio is recovered
29th Jun, 2010A Caravaggio painting considered to be the most valuable work of art stolen in Ukraine was recovered in Germany. Click for more...
Reassembled 15th century altarpiece to go home
6th May, 2010A 500 year altarpiece by Friedrich Pacher has recently been reassembled and will go back to the Alpine village for which it was commissioned. Click for more...
