The week in art news – Baltimore Museum of Art pulls works from controversial sale
On Wednesday, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) withdrew paintings by Clyfford Still and Brice Marden from the Contemporary Art…
The week in art news – Marian Goodman closes London gallery
Plus: Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning sales, and more recent stories
The week in art news – museums in Northern Ireland to close for four weeks
The Brooklyn Museum is to sell another round of works from its collection, and more recent stories
The week in art news – National Trust cuts 1,300 jobs
Plus: Nancy Spector resigns from the Guggenheim; and more recent stories
The week in art news – Kevin Young appointed director of Smithsonian’s African American history museum
The Smithsonian Institution has announced that Kevin Young will be the next director of the National Museum of African American…
The week in art news – Philip Guston show postponed to 2024
In a joint statement released on Monday, but not widely reported until later in the week, the four museums due…
The week in art news – Brooklyn Museum to sell 12 works at auction
The Brooklyn Museum has consigned a dozen works from its collections to Christie’s for auction, in the first significant example…
The week in art news – mining company chief resigns after destruction of sacred Australian sites
The world’s second largest mining company, Rio Tinto, announced today that its chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques and two other senior…
The week in art news – Art Basel Miami Beach cancelled
The organisers of Art Basel Miami Beach have cancelled this year’s edition of the fair, due to take place on…
The week in art news – the Whitney cancels ‘Collective Actions’ exhibition after criticism
On Tuesday, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York cancelled a planned exhibition of artworks created in recent months ‘in response to…
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
The week in art news – museums and galleries destroyed in blast that devastated Beirut
Plus: Southbank Centre staff castigate management, major US museums make more staff redundant and artefacts privately restituted to Ecuador
The week in art news – National Trust considering up to 1,200 redundancies
Plus: the House of Representatives has approved the National Museum for the American Latino, murals by Picasso have been removed from a building in Oslo, and more art news
The week in art news – arson suspected in Nantes Cathedral fire
Plus: Gavin Brown is shutting down his gallery, and the rest of the week’s art news
The week in art news – Hagia Sophia to be turned back into mosque
Plus: James Murdoch’s firm to invest in MCH Group, Frieze fairs in London cancelled, and more art news
The week in art news – UK government promises £1.57bn emergency funding for arts sector
Plus: Roselyne Bachelot named France’s new culture minister, outdoor performances to resume in England, and more art news
The week in art news – UK museums and galleries announce plans for reopening
Plus: Milton Glaser (1929–2020), French dealer who sold gold coffin to the Met charged with fraud, and more art news
The week in art news – UK museums and galleries to reopen from 4 July
Plus: American Museum of Natural History to remove statue of Theodore Roosevelt | Guggenheim curatorial staff demand end of ‘discriminatory practices’ | Philadelphia Museum of Art to cut staff by more than 20 per cent | The Met plans to reopen at end of August
The week in art news – Oxford college backs calls to remove Rhodes statue
Plus: Amazon boss appointed director of Natural History Museum, and more art news
The week in art news – statue of slave trader toppled in Bristol in Black Lives Matter protest
Plus: Art Basel cancels 2020 edition of flagship fair, further redundancies at SFMOMA, and more art news
The week in art news – Governor of Virginia orders removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue
Plus: Christo (1935–2020), interior designer jailed for buying a Rothko with a stolen identity, and more art news
The week in art news – Susan Rothenberg (1945–2020)
Plus: the MFA Houston is the first major US museum to reopen, the Venice Art and Architecture Biennales have been postponed, and Hobby Lobby is suing Christie’s
The week in art news – UK galleries and auction houses to reopen from 1 June
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