Plus: Françoise Gilot (1921–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), UK government plans to extend ivory ban, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: five men sentenced for Dresden jewellery heist, Lisa Schiff reportedly shuts up shop after lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: the Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for five years, from 2025–2030, and Samuel Fosso wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Plus: boycott at Kiasma in Helsinki comes to an end, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: photographer turns down Sony prize after winning with AI-generated image and Artcurial expands into Switzerland
Plus: Kwame Brathwaite (1938–2023), John Leighton to depart National Galleries of Scotland, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: collector Myriam Ullens killed outside her home and Berlin’s Pergamon Museum to close completely for three and a half years
Plus: Bordeaux town hall set on fire in French pension protests and Hispanic Society workers to strike indefinitely
Plus: Phyllida Barlow (1944–2023), investigators link 77 Indian antiquities in the Met to smuggler Subhash Kapoor, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: Rafael Viñoly (1944–2023), David Chipperfield wins the Pritzker, and more art news
Plus: Ron’s Place saved at the eleventh hour, Peter Weibel (1944–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: a Spanish collector has been sentenced to prison for forging artworks and the Tate Modern has announced the next artist for the Turbine Hall commission
Plus: Musée d’Orsay to restitute major works by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: a shake-up at DCMS, strengthening cultural ties between France and Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the week’s art news
Plus: UNESCO puts Odesa on its list of endangered sites and the fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88
Plus: archaeological artefacts returned to Italy from the United States, and Edinburgh landmark damaged by fire
Plus: three defendants confess to involvement in Green Vault jewel theft and House of Lords reports lambasts UK government’s treatment of the arts
Plus: the artist Michael Snow, the architect Renée Gailhoustet and the art historian Hans Belting have died this week
Plus: John Akomfrah and Grayson Perry knighted, Louvre to limit visitor numbers, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: Adriano Pedrosa to curate the 2024 Venice Biennale, Cambridge to return Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories
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
Plus: Tom Phillips (1937–2022), Horniman hands over Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
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