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The week in art news – Austrian museums close in national lockdown
Plus: New German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens | Roman villa complex uncovered in Rutland | and Jasmina Cibic wins 2021 Film London Award
The week in art news – Jimmie Durham (1940–2021)
Plus: Etel Adnan (1925–2021) | Former art dealer Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty to fraud | Oxford University lists 145 looted Benin objects in its collections | and UK government says Parthenon marbles’ return a matter for the British Museum
The week in art news – UK government rejects ‘Tulip’ skyscraper
Plus: Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021) | Tudor wall paintings discovered in Yorkshire manor | and National Gallery publishes research on slavery links
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 | Achim Borchardt-Hume (1965–2021) | Vancouver Art Gallery gets $100m for new building
The week in art news – US returns some 250 stolen antiquities to India
Plus: Dutch court rules for return of Crimean artefacts to Ukraine | UK institutions return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria | and UK budget includes £850m for cultural sector
The week in art news – Glasgow School of Art to be faithfully rebuilt after all
Plus: Pompidou renovations postponed until after Paris Olympics | Festival of Brexit art projects announced | and Ahmanson Foundation partners with the Huntington
The week in art news – Germany and Nigeria sign draft agreement for return of Benin Bronzes
Plus: Atta Kwami (1956–2021) | Biden restores federal protections for Utah desert landmarks | Grafton Architects wins RIBA Stirling Prize | Artist charged with selling Raymond Pettibon forgeries – and New York dealer admits selling fake antiquities
The week in art news – City of London to keep statues with slavery links
Plus: Biden nominates chairs of the NEA and NEH and Mark Roglán, director of the Meadows Museum, has died
The week in art news – Spanish government finally approves funds for Prado expansion
Plus: Danish museum and artist in dispute over two blank canvases | and New Museum creates $400,000 sculpture prize for women
The week in art news – Firstsite wins Artfund Museum of the Year award
Plus: John Booth appointed chair of the National Gallery in London and more stories
The week in art news – Nadine Dorries appointed UK culture secretary
Plus: Christophe Leribault appointed director of Musée d’Orsay | Hito Steyerl turns down Germany’s highest honour | and Dimitry Rybolovev’s case against Yves Bouvier dismissed
The week in art news – Klaus Biesenbach appointed director of Neue Nationalgalerie
Plus: Maqdala objects privately restituted to Ethiopia | Cao Fei wins Deutsche Börse photography prize | and San Francisco to get a new Institute of Contemporary Art
Art Basel seeks to reassure nervous exhibitors ahead of fair
Plus: MOCA LA appoints Johanna Burton as its first executive director | Robert E. Lee statue can be removed from Richmond, rules Virginia supreme court | Director of Estonian National Museum becomes President of Estonia
The week in art news – fears grow for the safety of cultural workers in Afghanistan
Plus: Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) | and Amsterdam returns Kandinsky painting to heirs of former owner
The week in art news – Chuck Close (1940–2021)
Chuck Close has died at the age of 81. The photorealist painter first came to prominence in the late 1960s…
The week in art news – deputy leader of Westminster Council resigns over Marble Arch Mound fiasco
Plus: Mark Ball appointed artistic director of Southbank Centre | David E. Little to head up International Center of Photography | Stefan Kalmár steps down as director of ICA | and Michel Laclotte, former Louvre president, dies at 92
The week in art news – Stonehenge road tunnel ruled unlawful, but plans still going ahead
Plus: More than 17,000 looted artefacts returned to Iraq | Timothy Rub to step down as director of Philadelphia Museum of Art | Wildfires in Greece and Turkey continue, threatening ancient sites | Art Institute of Chicago and Guggenheim staff move to unionise
The week in art news – Science Museum signed gagging clause in sponsorship agreement with Shell
Plus: Phillip King (1934–2021) and Xavier Rey appointed director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris
Liverpool loses Unesco World Heritage status
Plus: France requires vaccine passports for cultural venues and more than 1,000 Polish cultural figures criticise dismissal of museum director
The week in art news – Christian Boltanski (1944–2021)
Plus: Charlottesville removes statue of Robert E. Lee | Ann Demeester to direct Kunsthaus Zürich | Selldorf Architects to lead National Gallery’s major building project | and atom bomb artwork in Essex removed after complaints from local councillors
The week in art news – White House sets terms for sales of Hunter Biden’s paintings
Plus: South Korea to build new museum to house Samsung art collection | James Lingwood and Michael Morris step down from Artangel after 30 years | Met appoints new head of European paintings | Noah Horowitz to leave Art Basel
The week in art news – In Canada, protestors topple statues of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II
Plus: Berlin Museums may return Benin Bronzes as early as next year and a construction worker has admitted stealing a Picasso and a Mondrian from the National Gallery in Athens
The week in art news – George Osborne to chair the board of the British Museum
Plus: Teddy Roosevelt’s statue will lose its spot outside the American Museum of Natural History, and more stories
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