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British prime minister snubs Greek prime minister over Parthenon marbles

Plus: Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) | Dutch museum returns Scythian gold artefacts to Ukraine | and the rest of the week’s art news

3 Dec 2023

The week in art news – Switzerland sets up new committee on restitution

Plus: British Museum lends its most important Greek vase to Greece and German cities cancel photography event after allegations of anti-Semitism and curators’ resignations

24 Nov 2023

Alleged head of Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring extradited to Paris

Plus: The Frick Pittsburgh has postponed an exhibition of Islamic art, and the rest of the week’s top stories

5 Nov 2023

Mark Jones to be appointed interim director of crisis-hit British Museum

Plus: British Museum appoints new acting deputy director amid scandal; Christie’s cancels further sales from the collection of Heidi Horten, and the rest of the week’s art news

1 Sep 2023

UNESCO to put Venice on endangered heritage list

Plus: the number of daily visitors to the Acropolis is being capped and a Fondation Beyeler employee is on trial for embezzling funds

4 Aug 2023
Breuer Building

The week in art news – Sotheby’s is buying the Breuer Building

Plus: Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories

2 Jun 2023

The week in art news – Australian museums to receive major funding boost

Plus: Kwame Brathwaite (1938–2023), John Leighton to depart National Galleries of Scotland, and the rest of the week’s top stories

6 Apr 2023

Greek museums forced to close by protesting archaeologists

Plus: Musée d’Orsay to restitute major works by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin, and the rest of the week’s top stories

17 Feb 2023
The Dionysos pediment from the Parthenon marbles at the British Museum.

British Museum confirms Parthenon marbles talks with Greece

Plus: John Akomfrah and Grayson Perry knighted, Louvre to limit visitor numbers, and the rest of the week’s top stories

6 Jan 2023
Rendering of the National Gallery’s new Sainsbury Wing

The week in art news – National Gallery gets go-ahead for Sainsbury Wing plans

Plus: Tom Phillips (1937–2022), Horniman hands over Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories

2 Dec 2022
Photo: Roger Bowdler

The week in art news – Mark Girouard (1931–2022)

Plus: New York museums required to prominently acknowledge Nazi-looted works | the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has confirmed the authorship of one of its Vermeers | and the Met has returned two sculptures to Nepal

19 Aug 2022
Nigerian Foreign Minister Zubairo Dada at the ceremony in Berlin on 1 July. Photo: Adam Berry/AFP via Getty Images

The week in art news – Germany transfers ownership of Benin Bronzes

Plus: the Italian Ministry of Culture asks museums to refrain from selling NFTs

8 Jul 2022

Platinum Jubilee events round-up

Apollo presents a few of the best events and exhibitions put on in honour the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

1 Jun 2022

Former director of the Louvre under investigation for money laundering and organised fraud

Jean-Luc Martinez has been indicted in connection with the purchase of five ancient Egyptian artefacts by the Louvre Abu Dhabi

26 May 2022

Gilane Tawadros named as Whitechapel Gallery’s new director

Gilane Tawadros will become the gallery’s tenth director, following in the footsteps of Iwona Blazwick who stepped down, after 20 years, in April 2022

16 May 2022

This week in art news – Warhol’s Blue Marilyn sells for $195m

Plus: Deane Lawson wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022 and Art Fund announces Museum of the Year shortlist

13 May 2022

Sheena Wagstaff to leave Met’s modern and contemporary department

Plus: the Smithsonian adopts new ethical returns policy and 2,000 works of art reported to have been looted from Mariupol

7 May 2022

Mayor of Paris orders investigation into harassment cases at city’s museums

Plus: Vlodomyr Zelensky addresses the Venice Biennale and the Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch has died at the age of 83

22 Apr 2022
Martin Roth, Apollo magazine, 40 Under 40 Europe

V&A director Martin Roth resigns

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s first foreign director is stepping down after five years in the role

5 Sep 2016

Tate Modern to quit Bankside and become a village museum

Avril Djesta reports from London, where Tate Modern is to close its doors to become a regional pop-up museum

1 Apr 2016
The James Goldstein House, designed by John Lautner.

Acquisitions of the Month: February 2016

LACMA just acquired an entire house – and no ordinary house at that

3 Mar 2016
The homepage of Art UK, which was launched today (24 February 2016)

With Art UK, Britain’s public collections are more accessible than ever before

A new website revolutionises how we can view publicly owned art

24 Feb 2016
Sana'a, Yemen

The threat to Yemen’s heritage

Three world heritage sites are at risk as a result of the civil war

22 Feb 2016

Acquisitions of the Month: January 2016

Several museums have plugged gaps in their collections this month, while others have received some extraordinarily generous gifts

31 Jan 2016