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Michael Sorkin.

Michael Sorkin (1948–2020)

Art news daily: 27 March

27 Mar 2020
Maurice Berger in 2019.

Maurice Berger (1956–2020)

Art news daily: 25 March

25 Mar 2020
Paul Kasmin at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2018.

Paul Kasmin (1960–2020)

Art news daily: 24 March

24 Mar 2020
View of Marseille.

Manifesta 13 and other biennials postponed

Art news daily: 23 March

23 Mar 2020
The American Alliance of Museums has written to Congress at the United States Capitol.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Met anticipates losses of $100m and closure until July

Art news daily: 19 March

19 Mar 2020
Tate Britain in London.
Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford.
The Louvre. Photo: Dennis Jarvis/Wikimedia Commons
A notice announcing the closure of the Albertina in Vienna on 11 March 2020.
St. Peter's Square and Basilica.

Vatican closes St Peter’s Square to contain Covid-19

Art news daily: 10 March

10 Mar 2020
Madonna del Granduca (detail; c. 1505), Raphael.

Museums across Italy shuttered until April

Art news daily: 9 March

9 Mar 2020
Griselda Pollock. Photo: Griselda Pollock/Wikimedia Commons
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell in 2009.

Grafton Architects win Pritzker Prize

Art news daily: 4 March

4 Mar 2020

Art Dubai postponed indefinitely due to coronavirus

Art news daily: 3 March

3 Mar 2020
Mudras (detail; 1974), Ulay.

Ulay (1943–2020)

Art news daily: 2 March

2 Mar 2020
Photo: Helge Høifødt/Wikimedia Commons

Grayson Perry wins €150,000 Erasmus Prize

Art news daily: 27 February

27 Feb 2020
Michael Sweerts’ Plague in an Ancient City (1618), one of the many artworks donated by the Ahmanson Foundation to Los Angeles County Museum of Art over the past five decades

Major LACMA donor suspends long-term gift programme

Art news daily: 26 February

26 Feb 2020
Bernie Sanders.

More than 600 artists endorse Bernie Sanders in open letter

Art news daily: 25 February

25 Feb 2020