Graham Bowley

The Franklin Institute has said a wealthy scion, long vilified for refusing to serve during World War I, gave them a treasured Wright-built plane. His family is challenging that account.

The Met Museum returned an ancient cup, assembled from fragments, to Italy in 2022 after investigators found it had been looted. Now a second has been returned after a similar determination.

The fight is over an Egon Schiele drawing held by the Art Institute of Chicago that the Manhattan district attorney’s office seized as Nazi loot. But it has wider implications.

Some see hope and skill reflected in the Biden paintings. Critics say their success, and significant prices, were boosted by Joe Biden’s celebrity and stature.

The Allentown Art Museum agreed to sell the work, by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, to settle a restitution claim by a Jewish family, which will share in the proceeds.

The packages were sent to a woman whose work had led to the heralded recovery of the Kyrenia, and to new insights into classical Greek seafaring. But their ancient contents were a problem.

The president’s son started selling his artwork several years ago, drawing potential ethics concerns that were discussed in congressional testimony this year.

An antiques shop owner in Maine was hired by a friend to value the collection of the artist Robert Indiana. His verdict was $85 million. A second appraisal says that’s way too much.

The museum said its enhanced effort to study the provenance of items in its collection had turned up evidence that the statue of a Sumerian man was the property of Iraq.

The museum returned the painting three years ago to the heirs of a gallery once led by a German Jew. But one heir called the payment to MoMA included in the deal “unreasonable.”