The second most expensive purchase the Met has ever made is a stunning Italian bronze – and efforts to keep it in the UK have come to nothing
Plus: Carmen Herrera (1915–2022) and David Zwirner becomes latest gallery to announce a branch in Los Angeles
Plus: Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale to merge and Jonathan Watkins to step down as director of Ikon
On Tuesday, the UK government published widely awaited proposals for its ‘levelling up’ programme to increase economic activity across the…
Plus: Art Basel Hong Kong postponed to May and France to restitute 15 works looted by the Nazis
Plus: The Courtauld Institute and Kings College London have announced a 10-year ‘strategic partnership’
Plus: Man attacks BBC‘S Eric Gill statue with a hammer and Victoria Siddall steps down as global director of Frieze Fairs
Plus: Iwona Blazwick to step down as director of Whitechapel Gallery, and more of the week’s top stories
Plus: TEFAF and Salon du Dessin have been postponed, bell hooks (1952–2021), and more of the week’s top stories
Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts
The pioneering conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, has died at the age of 79. Born in the Bronx in 1942, Weiner…
Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland
Plus: Etel Adnan (1925–2021); and more art news
Plus: Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021); and more news
Plus: Humboldt Forum to remove medallion honouring donor with far-right views, and more stories
Plus: Dutch court rules for return of Crimean artefacts to Ukraine, and more stories
Centre Pompidou postpones renovations until after Paris Olympics, and the Ahmanson Foundation partners with the Huntington Library
Plus: Atta Kwami (1956–2001) and Biden restores federal protections for Utah national monuments
Plus: Biden nominates chairs of the NEA and NEH and Mark Roglán, director of the Meadows Museum, has died
Plus: Danish museum and artist in dispute over two blank canvases; and more stories
Plus: John Booth appointed chair of the National Gallery in London and more stories
Plus: Christophe Leribault appointed director of the Musée d’Orsay; and more stories
Plus: Maqdala objects privately restituted to Ethiopia | Cao Fei wins Deutsche Börse photography prize
Plus: MOCA LA names its first executive director, the Robert E. Lee statue can be removed from Richmond, and more 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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