The week in art news – National Portrait Gallery and Getty agree to buy Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai
Plus: collector Myriam Ullens killed outside her home and Berlin’s Pergamon Museum to close completely for three and a half years
The week in art news – Met’s antiquities come under closer scrutiny
Plus: Bordeaux town hall set on fire in French pension protests and Hispanic Society workers to strike indefinitely
The week in art news – Whitechapel Gallery lays off senior curators
Plus: Phyllida Barlow (1944–2023), investigators link 77 Indian antiquities in the Met to smuggler Subhash Kapoor, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Adam Weinberg to step down as Whitney director
Plus: Rafael Viñoly (1944–2023), David Chipperfield wins the Pritzker, and more art news
The week in art news – Glenstone museum receives donation of $1.9bn
Plus: Ron’s Place saved at the eleventh hour, Peter Weibel (1944–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
Joan Mitchell Foundation sends cease-and-desist to Louis Vuitton
Plus: a Spanish collector has been sentenced to prison for forging artworks and the Tate Modern has announced the next artist for the Turbine Hall commission
Greek museums forced to close by protesting archaeologists
Plus: Musée d’Orsay to restitute major works by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – heritage sites destroyed by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Plus: a shake-up at DCMS, strengthening cultural ties between France and Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the week’s art news
The week in art news – flat owners overlooked by Tate Modern win privacy case
Plus: UNESCO puts Odesa on its list of endangered sites and the fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88
The week in art news – John Akomfrah to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale
Plus: archaeological artefacts returned to Italy from the United States, and Edinburgh landmark damaged by fire
The week in art news – Peter Doig awarded $2.5m in dispute over painting he didn’t paint
Plus: three defendants confess to involvement in Green Vault jewel theft and House of Lords reports lambasts UK government’s treatment of the arts
Brazilian collector sues Detroit Institute of Art over allegedly stolen Van Gogh
Plus: the artist Michael Snow, the architect Renée Gailhoustet and the art historian Hans Belting have died this week
British Museum confirms Parthenon marbles talks with Greece
Plus: John Akomfrah and Grayson Perry knighted, Louvre to limit visitor numbers, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The Met gets 220 works by Philip Guston and a $10m donation
Plus: Adriano Pedrosa to curate the 2024 Venice Biennale, Cambridge to return Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week ’s top stories
The week in art news – Ukraine calls for cultural boycott of Russia
Plus: authorities seized looted artefacts from the home of Met trustee Shelby White, Artforum bought by Penske Media, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – National Gallery gets go-ahead for Sainsbury Wing plans
Plus: Tom Phillips (1937–2022), Horniman hands over Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – hundreds of ancient coins stolen from German museum
Plus: Nottingham Castle Trust goes into liquidation, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Larry Gagosian plans for the future
Plus: German government introduces €200 Kulturpass scheme | American couple accused of smuggling in Guatemala | Divya Mehra wins Sobey Award in Canada
The week in art news – Mark Hallett named director of the Courtauld
Plus: museum directors denounce Just Stop Oil protests, Paul Allen collection sells for more than $1.6bn, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Arts Council England announces its national funding portfolio
Plus: Subhash Kapoor sentenced to ten years in prison, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Frances Morris to step down from Tate Modern
Plus: Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), and a shake-up at the head of Art Basel
The week in art news – striking Philadelphia Museum of Art workers reach contract agreement
Plus: more looted objects connected to art dealer Subhash Kapoor returned to India, and the rest of the week’s art news
The week in art news – cultural sites in Kyiv damaged by Russian bombardment
Plus: climate protestors arrested at National Gallery, restitution loophole in the new Charities Act likely to be closed, Angus Trumble (1964–2022)
The week in art news – Glasgow City Council to sell the Kelvingrove
Plus: the Charities Act of February 2022 grants museums new powers over restitution, Bard College establishes endowment of $50m for the study of Indigenous art, and more art news
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