The week in art news – UNESCO keeps Venice off the endangered list again
Plus: Egon Schiele works seized from US museums, Moroccan heritage sites damaged in earthquake, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Roman bust seized from Worcester Art Museum
Plus: Polish museum director dismissed by local government, Manchester Museum returns 174 items to Indigenous Australians, and the rest of the week’s art news
Mark Jones to be appointed interim director of crisis-hit British Museum
Plus: British Museum appoints new acting deputy director amid scandal; Christie’s cancels further sales from the collection of Heidi Horten, and the rest of the week’s art news
British Museum director Hartwig Fischer announces immediate departure after suspected thefts
Plus: South-east Asian countries are demanding return of looted objects from Denver Art Museum, and the rest of the week’s top stories
British Museum sacks staff member accused of stealing from collections
Plus: the gallerist Angela Flowers has died at the age of 90 and the Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director over an alleged scheme to sell forged Basquiats
The week in art news – Brice Marden (1938–2023)
Plus: Ukrainian government releases online database of artworks in the possession of Russian nationals, and the rest of the week’s top stories
UNESCO to put Venice on endangered heritage list
Plus: the number of daily visitors to the Acropolis is being capped and a Fondation Beyeler employee is on trial for embezzling funds
The week in art news – arrests made in connection with Celtic coin heist
Plus: two looted sculptures returned to Libya, the Dutch national photography museum to receive a new home, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Frieze buys the Armory Show and Expo Chicago
Plus: a Pistoletto sculpture has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack and Simon Lee Gallery has been placed under administration
France passes law allowing museums to return Nazi-looted art
Plus: French artist Claude Lévêque is charged with rape and the Hermitage Amsterdam is changing its name
Douglas Latchford estate forfeits $12m to settle looted antiquities case
Plus: Austrian government proposes new restitution laws and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – United States to rejoin UNESCO in July
Plus: climate activists smear paint on a Monet, Maurizio Cattelan’s banana wins a lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Dam collapse has flooded the house of the Ukrainian artist Polina Rayko
Plus: Françoise Gilot (1921–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Sotheby’s is buying the Breuer Building
Plus: Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to retire
Plus: Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), UK government plans to extend ivory ban, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Supreme Court rules against Warhol Foundation in copyright lawsuit
Plus: five men sentenced for Dresden jewellery heist, Lisa Schiff reportedly shuts up shop after lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories
After a series of scandals, the Met hires an in-house provenance team
Plus: the Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for five years, from 2025–2030, and Samuel Fosso wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
The week in art news – UNESCO calls for greater protections for artists
Plus: boycott at Kiasma in Helsinki comes to an end, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Texan princess evicted from 16th-century Roman villa
Plus: photographer turns down Sony prize after winning with AI-generated image and Artcurial expands into Switzerland
The week in art news – Australian museums to receive major funding boost
Plus: Kwame Brathwaite (1938–2023), John Leighton to depart National Galleries of Scotland, and the rest of the week’s top stories
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
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