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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
The week in art news – Artes Mundi Prize awarded to all six shortlisted artists
Plus: MacKenzie Scott donates to 60 cultural organisations | Art-world figures recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list | Germany returns pre-Columbian artefacts to Mexico
The week in art news – staff accuse Barbican Centre of being institutionally racist
Plus: the Met returns two Benin Bronzes, Donald Judd’s office in Marfa severely damaged in fire, and more stories
The week in art news – frustrated Belgian experts issue their own restitution guidelines
Plus: The Whitney has voluntarily recognised a union and Hobby Lobby is suing Dirk Obbink over alleged papyrus theft
The week in art news – Laurence des Cars becomes first woman to lead Louvre
Plus: chairs of the National Gallery and the National Trust have resigned | Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1929–2021) | and Biden removes Trump-appointed board members from the Commission of Fine Arts
The week in art news – in Oxford, Rhodes won’t fall after all
Victoria Pomeroy to head up the Box in Plymouth | TEFAF Maastricht cancelled for 2021 | Banksy fails to trademark an image of a monkey
The week in art news – UK government approves Whitechapel Bell Foundry becoming a boutique hotel
Plus: NGA Washington appoints E. Carmen Ramos chief curator | Cerne Abbas Giant may date to Saxon times | Turner Prize-nominated collective criticises Tate in open letter
Five artist collectives – and no individuals – shortlisted for Turner Prize
Plus: Istanbul Biennial postponed to 2022 | Colosseum to get a wooden floor | and Karl Wirsum (1939–2021)
Germany to return Benin Bronzes from 2022
Plus: Samsung heirs donate 23,000 artworks to South Korean state in tax settlement | Marie-Josée Kravis is MoMA’s new chairman | and Nathalie Bondil moves to the Institut du Monde Arabe
The week in art news – Florida makes toppling statues a felony
Plus: German museums to close again this weekend | Harriet Tubman’s Maryland home has been discovered | and Peabody Essex Museum appoints Lynda Roscoe Hartigan as new director
The week in art news – Jean-Luc Martinez appointed ‘interim’ president of the Louvre
Plus: French court rules that commercial galleries must remain closed | Unesco report on museum funding pressures makes for grim reading | Cambodian government condemns altered photographs of Khmer Rouge victims
The week in art news – Spain stops a suspected Caravaggio from leaving the country
Plus: French galleries are suing the government to reopen, Egypt moves its royal mummies in a a televised extravaganza, and more stories
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