Graham Bowley

In court papers, the collector says an adviser, without authorization, schemed to sell a Giacometti sculpture he bought for $78 million to the entertainment mogul.

A collector says the Calder Foundation sunk the value of an $8 million mobile by Alexander Calder by deciding it was too damaged to still be viewed as a work by the artist.

A Danish museum is returning the bronze head of Septimius Severus to Turkey after agreeing that it was probably looted from a shrine honoring Roman leaders.

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 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.

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 prosecution accused Mr. Baldwin of ‘numerous breaches of firearm safety.’

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.”