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Israeli artist and curators close pavilion at Venice Biennale
Plus: the historic Copenhagen stock exchange building has been devastated by a fire
Former Uffizi director Eike Schmidt runs for mayor of Florence
Plus: Christie’s withdraws four Greek vases from auction and strike at National Museums Liverpool is set to continue
The week in art news – Marlborough Gallery to close after nearly 80 years
Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator
Nicholas Cullinan appointed director of the British Museum
The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer
The week in art news – the Met hires its first head of provenance
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
Germany to replace advisory panel for Nazi-looted art with binding arbitration
Plus: Met employees and volunteers call for the museum to defend Palestinian cultural heritage, and Russian security forces raid artists’s homes before the presidential elections
French court finds Guy Wildenstein guilty of money laundering and tax fraud
Plus: tax relief for museums and galleries in the UK is made permanent, and Lucas Samaras (1936–2024)
The week in art news – a looted Ethiopian shield is withdrawn from auction
Plus: The Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben has died after being unable to leave Gaza for medical treatment
The week in art news – Birmingham Council to axe entire arts budget by 2026
Plus: The V&A gets another chance to keep its 12th-century walrus ivory carving
Arts Council England retreats after freedom of expression row
Plus: Mick Moon (1937–2024), and a round-up of the week’s most important museum appointments
Courtney J. Martin to leave Yale for the Rauschenberg Foundation
Plus: a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll has been decoded and the CEO of Bonhams has resigned
The week in art news – man dies after falling from Tate Modern
Plus: Rubin Museum to sell its building and move to touring model | Pompidou staff settle three-month strike and claim victory
The week in art news – Carl Andre (1935–2024)
Plus: V&A and British Museum lend Asante regalia to Ghana for the first time | Temple to Ram inaugurated on site of Mughal-era mosque in Ayodhya
Iwona Blazwick steps down from the Istanbul Biennial
Plus: art dealer Brent Sikkema found dead in Brazil | Scottish museums face funding crisis
In a surprise appointment, Rachida Dati is the new French culture minister
Plus: artists in Berlin protest against funding requirement to sign anti-Semitism clause | and Freeman’s and Hindman auction houses are to merge
The week in art news – cyber-attack sends US museums offline
Plus: Poland withdraws its Biennale submission | swingeing cuts to UK arts budgets by local councils cuts continue | and Ian Wardropper to retire as Frick director
Major leadership changes in Italian museums
Plus: the Academy of Arts in Berlin warns against violations of civil liberties in Germany and the Met returns 14 trafficked artefacts to Cambodia and Thailand
British Museum report into thefts recommends reforms – and deputy director Jonathan Williams is leaving
Plus: the new president of Argentina has abolished the ministry of culture | and Notre-Dame is to reopen in December 2024
Russian billionaire and Swiss art dealer finally settle nine-year legal dispute
Plus: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts restitutes 44 antiquities | Jesse Darling wins the Turner Prize | and more art news
The week in art news – entire Documenta selection committee resigns
Plus: Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko jailed for seven years for anti-war protest, Joe Tilson (1928–2023), and B.N. Goswamy (1933–2023)
The week in art news – climate activists attack Velázquez painting at the National Gallery
Plus: director of Hungarian National Museum sacked, Odesa museum damaged by Russian missile strike, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Artforum editor fired over publication of open letter about Gaza
Plus: Robert Irwin (1928–2023), Italy appoints right-wing journalist as Venice Biennale director and the rest of the week’s top stories
Thefts were an ‘inside job’, British Museum chair tells Parliament
Plus: The Cleveland Museum of Art is suing the Manhattan DA’s office and bomb threats have led to multiple evacuations of Versailles and the Louvre
The week in art news – Swiss museum asked to cancel Cézanne sale
Plus: France and German set up a joint fund to research colonial provenance and hoard of coins with links to the Glencoe massacre discovered in Scotland
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