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The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, photographed in 2011.

Gus Casely-Hayford appointed first director of V&A East

Art news daily: 8 November

9 Nov 2019
Édouard Manet, Stürmische See (Ships at Sea in Stormy Weather, 1873)

High court rejects bid to overturn ban on ivory trading

Art news daily: 6 November

6 Nov 2019
The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, London in summer 2018.
The Prince of Wales
Tom Finkelpearl, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner attends Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's ribbon cutting opening ceremony at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on December 12, 2014 in New York City.
Doris Salcedo.

Doris Salcedo wins inaugural $1m Nomura Art Award

Art news daily: 31 October

31 Oct 2019
Protestors in Santiago on 29 October 2019.
The Getty Center.

‘Fire-proof’ Getty Center resists California wildfires

Art news daily: 29 October

29 Oct 2019
The Mocking of Christ (detail; c. 1280), Cimabue.
Central Park, New York
A helicopter transports the remains of Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen.
Smithsonian Institution Building, ‘The Castle’, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Andrea Lissoni.

Haus der Kunst names Andrea Lissoni as director

Art news daily: 22 October

22 Oct 2019
Huang Yong Ping in 2016.

Huang Yong Ping (1954–2019)

Art news daily: 21 October

21 Oct 2019
The Pompidou Centre, Paris.
Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490, Gallerie dell'Accademia

Italian court lifts loan ban on Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man

Art news daily: 17 October

17 Oct 2019
Éric Baudelaire at Locarno Film Festival.

Éric Baudelaire wins Prix Marcel Duchamp

Art news daily: 15 October

15 Oct 2019
John Giorno (1936–2019) in New York in 2012.

John Giorno (1936–2019)

Art news daily: 14 October

14 Oct 2019
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Bertille Bak below in front of her works at the Mario Merz Prize finalist group exhibition

Bertille Bak wins Mario Merz Prize for art

Art news daily: 10 October

10 Oct 2019
Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490, Gallerie dell'Accademia