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Pierre Le Guennec (left) leaving the courthouse in Lyon with his lawyers on September 24, 2019. Photo: Romain Lafabrègue/AFP via Getty Images

French court upholds sentence handed to Picasso’s former electrician

Art news daily: 20 November

20 Nov 2019

The Baltimore Museum of Art, which in May sold five artworks at auction for nearly $8 million to raise funds for new acquisitions. Would capitalising those works have allowed the institution to pursue its acquisition strategy without compromising its existing holdings?

Baltimore Museum of Art pledges to collect only work by women in 2020

Plus: France returns sword of Omar Saïdou Tall to Senegal | and Stephanie Comilang Wins 2019 Sobey Art Award

19 Nov 2019

The Sackler Courtyard at the Victoria and Albert Museum, photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Nan Goldin and P.A.I.N. activists stage protest at V&A

Art news daily: 18 November

18 Nov 2019

Plans to turn Whitechapel Bell Foundry into a hotel get go-ahead

Art news daily: 15 November

15 Nov 2019

Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.

Police investigate attempted theft of Rembrandts from Dulwich Picture Gallery

Art news daily: 14 November 2019

14 Nov 2019

Flooding in St Mark’s Square, Venice, on 13 November 2019.

Tide in Venice reaches highest level in half a century

Art news daily: 13 November

13 Nov 2019

The exterior of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, photographed in 2010.

Chiara Parisi to direct Centre Pompidou-Metz

Art news daily: 12 November

12 Nov 2019

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, photographed in 2011.

National Galleries Scotland will no longer host BP Portrait Award

Art news daily: 11 November

11 Nov 2019

Gus Casely-Hayford appointed first director of V&A East

Art news daily: 8 November

9 Nov 2019

Édouard Manet, Stürmische See (Ships at Sea in Stormy Weather, 1873)

Kunstmuseum Bern to sell Manet painting from Gurlitt Hoard for $4m

Art news daily: 7 November

7 Nov 2019

High court rejects bid to overturn ban on ivory trading

Art news daily: 6 November

6 Nov 2019

The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, London in summer 2018.

National Portrait Gallery in London to close for three years during refurbishment

Art news daily: 5 November

5 Nov 2019

The Prince of Wales

Prince Charles’s charitable foundation returns loan of paintings that may contain forgeries

Art news daily: 4 November

4 Nov 2019

Tom Finkelpearl, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner attends Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's ribbon cutting opening ceremony at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on December 12, 2014 in New York City.

New York commissioner for cultural affairs announces surprise resignation

Art news daily: 1 November

1 Nov 2019

Doris Salcedo.

Doris Salcedo wins inaugural $1m Nomura Art Award

Art news daily: 31 October

31 Oct 2019

Protestors in Santiago on 29 October 2019.

Contemporary Art Fair of Chile rescheduled after violent protests in Santiago

Art news daily: 30 October

30 Oct 2019

The Getty Center.

‘Fire-proof’ Getty Center resists California wildfires

Art news daily: 29 October

29 Oct 2019

The Mocking of Christ (detail; c. 1280), Cimabue.

Cimabue painting found in kitchen sells for €24m at auction

Art news daily: 28 October

28 Oct 2019

Central Park, New York

New York City puts out call for designs for black history monuments

Art news daily: 25 October

25 Oct 2019

A helicopter transports the remains of Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen.

Spanish government exhumes Franco’s remains from Valley of the Fallen

Art news daily: 24 October

24 Oct 2019

Smithsonian Institution Building, ‘The Castle’, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian partners with US Army to protect cultural heritage

Art news daily: 23 October

23 Oct 2019

Andrea Lissoni.

Haus der Kunst names Andrea Lissoni as director

Art news daily: 22 October

22 Oct 2019

Huang Yong Ping in 2016.

Huang Yong Ping (1954–2019)

Art news daily: 21 October

21 Oct 2019

The Pompidou Centre, Paris.

Centre Pompidou to establish ‘art factory’ in Paris suburb

Art news daily: 18 October

18 Oct 2019

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