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The week in art news – striking Philadelphia Museum of Art workers reach contract agreement
Plus: more looted objects connected to art dealer Subhash Kapoor returned to India, and the rest of the week’s art news
The week in art news – cultural sites in Kyiv damaged by Russian bombardment
Plus: climate protestors arrested at National Gallery, restitution loophole in the new Charities Act likely to be closed, Angus Trumble (1964–2022)
The week in art news – calls for the Rosetta Stone’s return to Egypt grow louder
Plus: the V&A has finally removed the Sackler name from the museum and Chris Dercon is to lead the Fondation Cartier
The week in art news – Glasgow City Council to sell the Kelvingrove
Plus: the Charities Act of February 2022 grants museums new powers over restitution, Bard College establishes endowment of $50m for the study of Indigenous art, and more art news
The week in art news – lights out early at the Louvre
Plus: Dimitrios Pandermalis (1940–2022) | and the Prado investigates its holdings for works seized during the Spanish Civil War
Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022)
The United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch served as patron of numerous arts organisations
US court dismisses Guelph Treasure lawsuit
Plus: antiquities trafficking investigation extends to Germany and dealer Johann König accused of sexual misconduct
The week in art news – ICOM agrees on what a museum is
Plus: US Museums must include salaries in job adverts | the interim director of the Orlando Museum resigns after just a month
The week in art news – Getty to return illegally excavated Orpheus sculptures to Italy
Plus: an arrest warrant is out for the antiquities dealer Georges Lofti, and the Tate has settled a discrimination case brought by three artists for a six-figure sum
The week in art news – Met director Max Hollein to take on chief executive role as well
Plus: new appointments at the National Gallery of Ireland and RIBA, Design Miami Paris cancelled amid security fears, and Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan museum
The week in art news – Cecil Rhodes plaque in Oxford gets listed status
Plus: Long-running dispute between Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier enters new phase and British geologist’s conviction for smuggling antiquities overturned
The week in art news – Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022)
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
The week in art news – Horniman Museum wins Art Fund Museum of the Year prize
The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London is this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year. The annual award, which…
The week in art news – Sam Gilliam (1933–2022)
Plus: Daniel H. Weiss is stepping down as president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The week in art news – plan to demolish and rebuild Royal British Columbia Museum scrapped
Plus: Documenta removes artwork at centre of anti-Semitism allegations
British Museum chair George Osborne says ‘deal’ can be done over Parthenon Marbles
Plus: Smithsonian board votes to return 29 Benin Bronzes | UK places a temporary export bar on £19m Poussin painting | Marina Lambraki-Plaka, the director of the National Gallery in Athens, has died at the age of 83
The week in art news – Paula Rego (1935–2022)
The Portuguese-British painter renowned worldwide for her vivid and unsettling fairy-tale visions has died at the age of 87
The week in art news – former head of the Louvre investigated for money laundering and organised fraud
Plus: the art dealer Inigo Philbrick has been sentenced to seven years in prison | The new French culture minister is Rima Abdul Malak
The week in art news – Macklowe collection sells for record-breaking $922m
Plus: Angus Grossart has died at the age of 85 | Brazilian curator resigns amid MASP controversy | Protest takes place outside the Whitney | Ukrainian soldiers discover ancient artefacts in Odessa
The week in art news – Deborah Swallow to retire as director of the Courtauld Institute
Plus: Ukraine demolishes statue symbolising friendship with Russia and winners of the competition to renew the Barbican Centre announced
The week in art news – Turner Prize shortlist announced
Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival
The week in art news – Getty Trust appoints Katherine Fleming as president
Plus: Charles Darwin’s stolen notebooks returned to Cambridge University | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego reopens | Finland seizes art shipments from Russia worth €42m
US Supreme Court to rule on dispute over Warhol’s use of Prince photograph
Plus: The Met has returned two statues to Libya and Qatar is to build three new museums in Doha
The week in art news – Mariupol art school bombed with civilians sheltering inside
Plus: Bonhams acquires Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen | Budi Tek (1957–2022) | Planning permission granted for Madison Square Garden Sphere in East London
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