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The Switch House, now named The Blavatnik Building, at Tate Modern,Photo: © Iwan Baan

Report urges increased UK government funding to museums

Art news daily: 15 February

15 Feb 2018
US President Donald Trump has proposed cutting funding to the NEA and NEH - again.

NEA and NEH under threat again in proposed 2019 US budget

Art news daily: 13 February

13 Feb 2018

Berkshire Museum strikes agreement over proposed sale

Art news daily: 12 February

12 Feb 2018
Ines Katzenstein
Elizabeth Alexander, speaking at the White House at an event in 2015.

Elizabeth Alexander named president of Mellon Foundation

Art news daily: 8 February

8 Feb 2018
The Great Gallery at the Wallace Collection, London.

Wallace Collection to open new exhibition space in June

Art news daily: 7 February

7 Feb 2018
Hylas and the Nymphs (1896), J.W. Waterhouse. Manchester Art Gallery

Waterhouse painting back on display in Manchester

Art news daily: 5 February

5 Feb 2018
Ronald Lauder at the Kunsthaus Zurich in 2016, MICHAEL BUHOLZER/AFP/Getty Images

Ronald Lauder criticises Germany’s restitution efforts

Art news daily: 2 February

2 Feb 2018
Detail of the National Portrait Gallery's main entrance mosaic

Serpentine Pavilion to launch in Beijing

Art news daily: 31 January

31 Jan 2018
Eva González-Sancho and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, who will curate the first edition of the Oslo Biennial, set to launch in 2019.

Oslo to launch new art biennial in 2019

Art news daily: 30 January

30 Jan 2018

Delaware Art Museum to receive $15 million gift

Art news daily: 25 January

25 Jan 2018
Jack Whitten photographed in his studio in 2015.

Jack Whitten (1939–2018)

Art news daily: 22 January

22 Jan 2018
Ed Moses in Los Angeles in 2014, Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Art of Elysium

Ed Moses (1926–2018)

Art news daily: 19 January

19 Jan 2018
Jude Kelly, artistic director of the Southbank Centre and founder of Women of the World Festival (WOW), at the US launch of WOW on 19 March 2015 in Washington, DC.
A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, in which William the Conqueror rescues the future King Harold II from captivity in France and betrothes his daughter Aelfgifu to him.

Historic loan could allow Bayeux Tapestry to travel to UK

Art news daily: 17 January

17 Jan 2018
Indonesian firefighters working to extinguish a fire inside the 17th-century Dutch colonial building maritime museum in Jakarta on 16 January 2018.

Fire breaks out at maritime museum in Jakarta

Art news daily: 16 January

16 Jan 2018
Anthony d’Offay in front of ‘untitled: upturnedhouse 2’ (2012) by Phyllida Barlow, at Tate Modern, London on 14 January 2016. Photo: NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP/Getty Images

Anthony d’Offay accused of sexual harassment

Art news daily: 15 January

15 Jan 2018