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US to return statue stolen from Mussolini’s villa
Export Bar for Giacometti's Femme | Royal Collection Trust Refuses Art UK Permission to Display Works | Settlement Reached over Looted Pissarro | Philadelphia Museum of Art Receives Historic Bequest
What would ‘Brexit’ mean for UK museums?
Eighth century Islamic Tombs Discovered in Nȋmes | Artists ‘Steal’ Bust of Nefertiti | FIAC Satellite Postponed | Winners Named for Anderson Ranch Awards
Art UK launches in London
BADA to Spearhead Campaign against Quarterly Tax Returns | Fondazione Cini Unveils Fastest Scanner to Date | Serpentine Reveals Designs for 2016 Pavilion & Summer Houses | Uli Sigg on Uli Sigg | Thomas Schütte to Open Museum | Harmony Korine Attacks the Canvas | Art Thief Returns Stolen Painting
China tries to ban to ‘weird’ buildings
Plans Approved for Oslo’s New Munch Museum | Ethiopian Dam Could Threaten Monuments of the Nile | Hundreds Petition to Save Sunderland Museum | Moroccan Cultural Centre to Open in Paris
Tate announces major Hockney retrospective
Cass Sells London HQ | Will Jesus College Repatriate its Bronze Cockerel? | Philipp Rühr & Henning Fehr Win BMW Art Journey Award | The Weekend’s Best Comment and Reviews
Melbourne Art Fair cancelled
Ken Griffin Buys Abstract Expressionist Works for a Reported $500 million | Cape Town Students Set Paintings Alight in Protest | Gavin Turk on Manzoni
Museum of Fascism planned for Mussolini’s birthplace
Dennis Morris Accuses Elizabeth Peyton of Copyright Infringement | Recommended Reading: Robert Hewison on the UK Government’s Culture White Paper | Rumours of Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery Reopening Scotched | Richard Wilson to Curate RA Summer Exhibition
Russian dissident disqualified from top art prize
Putin Furious Over the State of Russian Heritage Attractions | Italy Sets up UNESCO Taskforce to Preserve Cultural Heritage | Bruce Boucher Named as New Soane's Museum Director | Man Accused of Complicity in Knoedler Forgeries Can be Extradited to US | ‘Is Kanye West Hip-Hop’s Greatest Cubist?’
Regional museums: Melvyn Bragg weighs in on the debate
Paris Fairs Curb American Ambitions | National Museum of Scotland Announces 10 New Galleries | Van Gogh’s Mental State ‘Revealed’ | Nairn’s London at 50
Prado cancels loan of two Bosch works
Belgium’s Museums in Crisis | 92 Skeletons Discovered Under Aberdeen Museum | Paris's Pinacothèque Closes | Melanie Clore to Leave Sotheby’s | The Weekend’s Best Comment & Reviews
Shake-up at French culture ministry
The Independent to Cease Print Edition | 'Paddington Pole' May be Halved in Height | Recommended Reading: Hermann Göring’s Inventaire des Peintures | Jorvik Museum In Need of £2 million to Reopen | Marc Quinn and White Cube Part Ways | Facebook Censors Evelyne Axell Painting
Boris Johnson under fire over Norton Folgate decision
Bjarke Ingels to Design Serpentine Pavilion | Appointment of new Culture Minister Divides Croatia | Huge Roman Arcade to Go on Show in Colchester
British Museum in talks with indigenous leaders over sacred bark objects
Tibetan Artwork Covered Up at Dhaka Art Summit | Marta Kuzma Named Dean of Yale School of Art | Judge Suspends Knoedler Trial
Can Yemen’s unparalleled collection of manuscripts be saved?
RIBA President Calls for Halt to Garden Bridge Project | Turin Egyptian Museum Dedicates Gallery to Murdered Student | Januszczak: BBC ‘Makes Art Feel Like Homework’ | Malware 'Museum' makes for Surprise Blockbuster
Impending closure for many UK regional museums
MPs Protest V&A Move for NMM Photography Collection | Knoedler Trial: Ann Freedman Settles with De Soles | Collection of over 500 Artefacts Repatriated to Ecuador | This weekend’s best art comment
A ‘dull period’ for British architecture?
National Media Museum Axes Film Festival | Yemen: Reasons for the West’s ‘Relative Indifference’ over Cultural Destruction | Export Bar for T.E. Lawrence’s Robes and Dagger | Getty Museum Acquires Rare Manuscript | Chipperfield Hired to Create New Cultural Complex in Berlin
National museum in Yemen hit by shellfire
Wentworth Woodhouse Sold to Conservation Group for £7 million | Italy to Create 10 New Museums | Art Dealer Eric Spoutz Arrested in Connection with Fakes | The Fitzwilliam at 200 | Britain’s Worst Public Art
Death sentence overturned for Ashraf Fayadh
TEFAF Maastricht Expands to New York | Rothko’s Son Insists he Never Authenticated Work Sold by Knoedler | Bouvier: What Really Happened? | Philippe Parreno Commissioned for Tate Modern Turbine Hall
A new work by Hieronymus Bosch discovered in Kansas
V&A to House the World’s Largest Art Photography Collection | 4,500 year old Boat Discovered at Abusir Necropolis | Science Museum & Natural History Museum in Talks over West London Outpost | …Zaha Hadid: ‘I Would Love to Build a Tower in London’
Fresh allegations of mayoral ‘cover up’ over Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge
Art News Daily : 29 January
Ai Weiwei closes Copenhagen show in protest at treatment of refugees
Art News Daily : 28 January