Germany

Jan van Huysum’s ‘Vase of Flowers’ was stolen in 1943 by retreating German troops

In further news: German pavilion announces artist for Venice; Emmanuel Macron urges art world to fight extremism

Ahead of the school’s centenary, European museums celebrate the creative brilliance of the often-overlooked Bauhaus women

Gallery owner says he doesn’t want to support the painter’s political views and that ‘this is essentially what you do if you give him a platform’

Disputes about city architecture and historical revisionism are raging, but political lines are not always so clear

The online petition organized by Green Party MPs warns that far-right politics across the continent has dangerous implications for the arts

German museums are being pushed to diversify their canons and respond to a globalized world – but is ‘cleaning up’ the answer?

In further news: women wearing rainbow badges beaten in Beijing’s 798; gallerists Georg Kargl and Richard Gray have passed away

The Chinese dissident artist has justified posing with politician Alice Weidel, who has branded immigrants ‘illiterate’

Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Paying tribute to W.G. Sebald’s literature of memory and loss, two decades after his lectures on the Allied fire-bombing of German cities

Boris Groys on 25 years of contemporary art in Eastern Europe

15th Venice Architecture Biennale: the German pavilion showcases projects for rehousing refugees

Germany's dispute over legislating artworks of national significance

Żak | Branicka, Berlin, Germany

The Other in Thomas Schütte's work

The museum was founded by Beate Uhse, Germany’s self-declared ‘pioneer of the sexual revolution’ and the owner of the world’s first sex shop