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Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490, Gallerie dell'Accademia

Italian court lifts loan ban on Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man

Art news daily: 17 October

17 Oct 2019
Éric Baudelaire at Locarno Film Festival.

Éric Baudelaire wins Prix Marcel Duchamp

Art news daily: 15 October

15 Oct 2019
Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490, Gallerie dell'Accademia
The lnfanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (detail; c. 1630), Anthony van Dyck.
The New Museum, New York.

Getty Trust announces $100m world heritage programme

Art news daily: 18 September

18 Sep 2019
AMERICA (2016), Maurizio Cattelan.

Maurizio Cattelan sculpture stolen from Blenheim Palace

Art news daily: 16 September

16 Sep 2019
Helen Whately MP
Leo Castelli in a room of the Jasper Johns exhibit at the Castelli Gallery, New York, 1958. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

For the record – collecting gallery papers at the Archives of American Art

From inventories to installation shots – Liza Kirwin discusses the crucial role of gallery records in documenting art history

11 Sep 2019
One Stamford Forum, Connecticut, containing the headquarters of Purdue Pharma.

Sackler family reportedly ready to give up ownership of Purdue Pharma

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Sackler family reportedly ready to give up ownership of Purdue Pharma |…

11 Sep 2019

Mohamed Elshahed

Architectural historian, Cairo

4 Sep 2019

Caline Aoun

Beirut

4 Sep 2019
Making the Modern World Gallery at Science Museum, London

Science Museum workers go on strike over low pay

Art news daily: 30 August

30 Aug 2019
Gliederpuppe (1948), Wilhelm Lachnit.

Utopia and Demise: Art in the GDR

This survey of East German artists marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
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Coins from the 2,528-strong Chew Valley hoard, found in January. Image: British Museum
Eliseo Mattiacci with an installation of his Roma sculptures at the Palazzo Mazzancolli, Italy, in 1982.

Eliseo Mattiacci (1940–2019)

Art news daily: 27 August

27 Aug 2019
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt in front of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, at the reopening of the gallery’s room dedicated to the artist in 2016.

How have the Italian museum reforms fared?

In 2015, Dario Franceschini’s modernising project heralded a newly international outlook for the Italian museum system. Is it sustainable?

27 Aug 2019
Adolf Fischer at the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, c. 1913.

The prescient pair who created Europe’s first museum of East Asian art

Adolf and Frieda Fischer’s globetrotting led to their founding the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst in Cologne

24 Aug 2019
Two illegally smuggled antiquities are returned to India at India House in London.
Europol announced 75 arrests and the recovery of over 3,500 stolen works of art and cultural goods as part of 'Operation Pandora'.

Europol sting recovers 18,000 stolen artefacts

Art news daily: 7 August

7 Aug 2019
Amedeo Modigliani's Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) at Sotheby's Hong Kong in April 2018.

In defence of the catalogue raisonné

With the art market crying out for definitive catalogues, a new international association has been launched to support their production

5 Aug 2019
Orpheus Enchanting the Animals (16th century), attributed to Titian’s workshop.
A visualisation of what visitors to the Ara Pacis Museum see via their AR headsets. Image: © Zètema Progetto Cultura

The digital reconstructions bringing Roman ruins to life

From the Circus Maximus to the Ara Pacis, virtual and augmented reality can enhance our experience of ancient sites

30 Jul 2019