The week in art news – far-right French mayor reopens museums in defiance of Covid shutdown
Plus: Getty Trust launches $38.5m LA arts recovery fund | Neal Benezra to depart as head of SFMOMA | Mayor of London announces members of diversity commission | CEO of Royal British Columbia Museum resigns after investigation into racism
The week in art news – US Supreme Court rules for Germany in Guelph Treasure case
Plus: Germany announces a second €1bn bailout for culture | Dutch government agrees to return all stolen objects to former colonies | and French museums press for reopening
The week in art news – Botticelli painting sells for $92m at auction
Plus: Centre Pompidou to close for three years of renovations | TEFAF Maastricht postponed to September | City of Bruges to build major new exhibition space
The week in art news – Art Basel postponed to September
Plus: Bozar damaged by fire | and City of London to remove statues with slavery links
The week in art news – world’s oldest animal painting found in Indonesia
Plus: Smithsonian scales back $2bn redevelopment plan | Naomi Beckwith appointed deputy director and chief curator of Guggenheim | and Champs-Élysées to be turned into ‘extraordinary garden’
The week in art news – Indian Supreme Court approves plans for new parliament complex
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of India dismissed objections to the construction of a new parliament complex in New Delhi. The plans, announced…
The week in art news – lone US senator blocks bills to create national Latino and women’s museums
Plus: Dutch Restitutions Commission criticised for lack of empathy and transparency | US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Guelph Treasure case | and Tate ethics committee deems Rex Whistler restaurant mural offensive
The week in art news – Tate to cut 120 gallery jobs to reduce losses
Plus: Irina Antonova (1922–2020) | MCH Group approves investment from James Murdoch’s firm | letter calls for Philip Johnson’s name to be removed from public institutions
The week in art news – continuing restrictions mean a patchy reopening for European museums
Plus: The chair of the Dutch committee on Nazi-looted art has resigned | Staff at the MFA Boston vote to unionise | and the director of the Liverpool Biennial steps down after differences with the board
The week in art news – Smithsonian and other US museums close amid Covid surge
Plus: Art Fund launches £1m crowdfunding campaign | Royal Opera House chair David Ross is confirmed as Hockney buyer | Sheldon Solow (1928–2020)
The week in art news – controversial road tunnel near Stonehenge gets the go-ahead
Plus: British Museum extends its Endangered Material Knowledge Programme | The Met appoints two co-chairs of its board of trustees | The state of New York is suing Sotheby’s for alleged tax fraud | Aldo Tambellini (1930–2020)
The week in art news – museums and galleries in England close in new lockdown
Plus: new dates announced for Philip Guston show | French senate approves restitution of 27 colonial-era artefacts | director of communications at the MNBAQ dies in Quebec City attack | Gagosian director fired after investigation into misconduct
The week in art news – Baltimore Museum of Art pulls works from controversial sale
Plus: Mohamed Melehi (1936–2020) | museums in France close in new national lockdown | Sindika Dokolo (1972–2020) | Art X Lagos postponed
The week in art news – Marian Goodman closes London gallery
Plus: Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning sales | Lost Jacob Lawrence painting found after six decades | Stéphane Aquin appointed director of Montreal Museum of Fine Art | Deana Lawson wins 2020 Hugo Boss Prize
The week in art news – museums in Northern Ireland to close for four weeks
Plus: Brooklyn Museum to sell more works from its collection | French museum postpones Genghis Khan show after pressure from China | Art Fund announces Museums of the Year | and Chris Killip (1946–2020)
The week in art news – National Trust cuts 1,300 jobs
Plus: Nancy Spector resigns from the Guggenheim | France passes bill to restitute 27 colonial-era artefacts to Benin and Senegal | Baltimore Museum of Art plans to sell three paintings
The week in art news – Kevin Young appointed director of Smithsonian’s African American history museum
Plus: V&A to cut 10 per cent of workforce | RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal goes to David Adjaye | and Clore Duffield Foundation announces £2.5m grants for cultural organisations
The week in art news – Philip Guston show postponed to 2024
Plus: Agreement reached in dispute over Robert Indiana’s estate | Two Manhattan antiquities dealers charged with fraud | and ARCO Madrid and London Art Fair postponed
The week in art news – Brooklyn Museum to sell 12 works at auction
Plus: Royal Academy to cut 40 per cent of staff | FIAC cancels 2020 edition | and Terence Conran (1931–2020)
The week in art news – mining company chief resigns after destruction of sacred Australian sites
Plus: The French government announces a €2bn culture fund | DCMS Committee argues for extension to UK furlough scheme | and Tate cuts ties with Anthony d'Offay
The week in art news – Art Basel Miami Beach cancelled
Plus: Siah Armajani (1939–2020) | and SFMOMA is cutting the pay of all full-time staff
The week in art news – the Whitney cancels ‘Collective Actions’ exhibition after criticism
Plus: Dallas Art Fair exhibitors demand refunds | Heinz Frank (1939–2020) | Man who attacked Picasso painting gets 18-month sentence
The week in art news – Kariye Museum in Istanbul to be turned into a mosque
President Erdogan of Turkey today issued a decree to allow the Kariye (Chora) Museum to be used as a mosque.…
The week in art news – Tate to make almost half of its commercial staff redundant
Plus: houses in Old City of Sanaa collapse after heavy rains, and current and former MMFA staff support sacking of Nathalie Bondil
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