Brazilian collector sues Detroit Institute of Art over allegedly stolen Van Gogh
Plus: the artist Michael Snow, the architect Renée Gailhoustet and the art historian Hans Belting have died this week
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
The Met gets 220 works by Philip Guston and a $10m donation
Plus: Adriano Pedrosa to curate the 2024 Venice Biennale, Cambridge to return Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Ukraine calls for cultural boycott of Russia
Plus: authorities seized looted artefacts from the home of Met trustee Shelby White, Artforum bought by Penske Media, and the rest of the week’s top stories
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
The week in art news – hundreds of ancient coins stolen from German museum
Plus: Nottingham Castle Trust goes into liquidation, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Larry Gagosian plans for the future
Plus: German government introduces €200 Kulturpass scheme | American couple accused of smuggling in Guatemala | Divya Mehra wins Sobey Award in Canada
The week in art news – Mark Hallett named director of the Courtauld
Plus: museum directors denounce Just Stop Oil protests, Paul Allen collection sells for more than $1.6bn, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Arts Council England announces its national funding portfolio
Plus: Subhash Kapoor sentenced to ten years in prison, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Frances Morris to step down from Tate Modern
Plus: Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), and a shake-up at the head of Art Basel
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 – 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
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 – Germany transfers ownership of Benin Bronzes
Plus: the Italian Ministry of Culture asks museums to refrain from selling NFTs
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
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
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 – 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
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