The week in art news – Deborah Swallow to retire as director of the Courtauld Institute
Plus: Ukraine demolishes statue symbolising friendship with Russia and winners of the competition to renew the Barbican Centre announced
The week in art news – Getty Trust appoints Katherine Fleming as president
Plus: Charles Darwin’s stolen notebooks returned to Cambridge University | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego reopens | Finland seizes art shipments from Russia worth €42m
The week in art news – Mariupol art school bombed with civilians sheltering inside
Plus: Bonhams acquires Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen | Budi Tek (1957–2022) | Planning permission granted for Madison Square Garden Sphere in East London
The week in art news – France launches emergency fund for Ukrainian artists
Plus: MoMA to review security protocols after recent stabbings and Francis Kéré wins Pritzker Architecture Prize
The week in art news – Ukrainians try to safeguard cultural heritage
The head of Unesco’s World Heritage Centre has said that it is receiving ‘more and more reports of the destruction…
The week in art news – Unesco voices concern for Ukrainian heritage sites
Unesco has said that it is ‘gravely concerned’ about the security of Ukrainian heritage sites from damage caused during the…
The week in art news – Ukrainian museums try to protect their collections
Plus: a Neolithic site has been discovered in Jordan and the Weltmuseum’s audioguide was hacked by activitists
Met acquires much-coveted Renaissance roundel for $23m
The second most expensive purchase the Met has ever made is a stunning Italian bronze – and efforts to keep it in the UK have come to nothing
Belgium hands over full inventory of objects to DRC
Plus: Carmen Herrera (1915–2022) and David Zwirner becomes latest gallery to announce a branch in Los Angeles
The week in art news – SFMOMA appoints Christopher Bedford as director
Plus: Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale to merge and Jonathan Watkins to step down as director of Ikon
The week in art news – UK government announces ‘levelling-up’ plans
On Tuesday, the UK government published widely awaited proposals for its ‘levelling up’ programme to increase economic activity across the…
The week in art news – Art Basel owner bumps FIAC from its slot with a new Paris fair
Plus: Art Basel Hong Kong postponed to May and France to restitute 15 works looted by the Nazis
The week in art news – TEFAF Maastricht moves to June, now jam-packed with fairs
Plus: The Courtauld Institute and Kings College London have announced a 10-year ‘strategic partnership’
The week in art news – Ricardo Bofill (1939–2022)
Plus: Man attacks BBC‘S Eric Gill statue with a hammer and Victoria Siddall steps down as global director of Frieze Fairs
The week in art news – Colston Four cleared of criminal damage
Plus: Iwona Blazwick to step down as director of Whitechapel Gallery, and more of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Danish and Dutch museums close in lockdowns
Plus: TEFAF and Salon du Dessin have been postponed, bell hooks (1952–2021), and more of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Metropolitan Museum of Art to remove Sackler name from its galleries
Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts
The week in art news – Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021)
The pioneering conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, has died at the age of 79. Born in the Bronx in 1942, Weiner…
The week in art news – Austrian museums close in national lockdown
Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland
The week in art news – Jimmie Durham (1940–2021)
Plus: Etel Adnan (1925–2021); and more art news
The week in art news – UK government rejects ‘Tulip’ skyscraper
Plus: Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021); and more news
The week in art news – Smithsonian Museum of African Art commits to restituting Benin Bronzes
Plus: Humboldt Forum to remove medallion honouring donor with far-right views, and more stories
The week in art news – US returns some 250 stolen antiquities to India
Plus: Dutch court rules for return of Crimean artefacts to Ukraine, and more stories
The week in art news – Glasgow School of Art to be faithfully rebuilt after all
Centre Pompidou postpones renovations until after Paris Olympics, and the Ahmanson Foundation partners with the Huntington Library
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