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The week in art news – Ukrainian museums try to protect their collections
Ukraine’s museums try to protect their collections | director of the Whitworth Art Gallery said to have been asked to resign | Neolithic site uncovered in Jordan | Weltmuseum’s audio guide hacked by activists
Met acquires much-coveted Renaissance roundel for $23m
The second most expensive purchase the Met has ever made is a stunning Italian bronze – and efforts to keep it in the UK have come to nothing
Belgium hands over full inventory of objects to DRC
Plus: Carmen Herrera (1915–2022) | Mona Saudi (1945–2022) | David Zwirner is latest gallery to announce Los Angeles branch | and National Gallery of Canada creates department for Indigenous ways and decolonisation
The week in art news – SFMOMA appoints Christopher Bedford as director
Christopher Bedford to leave Baltimore Museum of Art to direct SFMOMA | Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale to merge | Jorge Zamanillo appointed director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino | Jonathan Watkins leaves Ikon after nearly 25 years | Bamber Gascoigne (1935–2022) | and Russian guard doodles on $1million painting
The week in art news – UK government announces ‘levelling-up’ plans
Plus: New York gallery faces lawsuit for refusing to divulge a Rothko’s provenance | Biden reverses Trump’s restrictions on art displayed in federal buildings | Ancient Greek artefacts and ruins unearthed in southern Italy
The week in art news – Art Basel owner bumps FIAC from its slot with a new Paris fair
Plus: Art Basel Hong Kong postponed to May and France to restitute 15 works looted by the Nazis
The week in art news – TEFAF Maastricht moves to June, now jam-packed with fairs
Plus: The Courtauld Institute and Kings College London announce 10-year ‘strategic partnership’ | Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover (1927–2022) | and a round-up of recent museum appointments
The week in art news – Colston Four cleared of criminal damage
Plus: Iwona Blazwick to step down as director of Whitechapel Gallery | Annick Lemoine appointed new director of Petit Palais | and Bengi Ünsal appointed new director of ICA
The week in art news – Danish and Dutch museums close in lockdowns
Plus: TEFAF and Salon du Dessin have been postponed | bell hooks (1952–2021) | and Sally Mann wins Prix Pictet
The week in art news – Metropolitan Museum of Art to remove Sackler name from its galleries
Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts | Polish government ends contract of Museum of Lodz’s director | and New York City to give $50m to 1,000 cultural organisations
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
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