Sotheby's, New York, in June 2004. Photo: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images

Sotheby’s shareholders approve sale to Patrick Drahi

Art news daily: 6 September

6 Sep 2019

UK government to increase DCMS funding by 4.1 per cent

Art news daily: 5 September

5 Sep 2019
St Clare Rescuing the Shipwrecked (1455), Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia.
Main view of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, including its agricultural terraces.
Making the Modern World Gallery at Science Museum, London

Science Museum workers go on strike over low pay

Art news daily: 30 August

30 Aug 2019
Nan Goldin at a P.A.I.N. protest in front of the Louvre in July 2019.
Coins from the 2,528-strong Chew Valley hoard, found in January. Image: British Museum
Eliseo Mattiacci with an installation of his Roma sculptures at the Palazzo Mazzancolli, Italy, in 1982.

Eliseo Mattiacci (1940–2019)

Art news daily: 27 August

27 Aug 2019
The ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture and the Olympic Stadium in 2012.
Udo Kittelmann.

City of London introduces tougher rules for skyscrapers

Art news daily: 21 August

21 Aug 2019
Nora Burnett Abrams.

MCA Denver appoints Nora Burnett Abrams as director

Art news daily: 20 August

20 Aug 2019
Installation view from ‘China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors’ at the World Museum, Liverpool (9 February–28 October).
Two illegally smuggled antiquities are returned to India at India House in London.
Professor Homi K. Bhabha.

Homi K. Bhabha to be honoured at ICA in London

Art news daily: 15 August

15 Aug 2019
Detail from Victor Arnautoff’s The Life of Washington mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco.
Some of the figurines and gems recently excavated in the House of the Garden at Pompeii.

Archaeologists unearth cache of jewels at Pompeii

Art news daily: 13 August

13 Aug 2019
Photograph of Takis and Guy Brett 1966.

Panayiotis Vassilakis (Takis) (1925–2019)

Art news daily: 12 August

12 Aug 2019
Ai Weiwei, photographed in Mexico City in 2019.
A cruise ship passes close to the church San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice on 26 September 2014.

Venice will reroute cruise ships away from city centre

Art news daily: 8 August

8 Aug 2019
Europol announced 75 arrests and the recovery of over 3,500 stolen works of art and cultural goods as part of 'Operation Pandora'.

Europol sting recovers 18,000 stolen artefacts

Art news daily: 7 August

7 Aug 2019
Installation view of Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung’s Statue of a Girl of Peace (2011) at the Aichi Triennale 2019 in Nagoya.
The Dark Rigi: The Lake of Lucerne, Showing the Rigi at Sunrise (1842), J.M.W. Turner.