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Renaissance shipwreck found in Baltic Sea

Art news daily: 24 July

24 Jul 2019
The court casket from Newbattle Abbey (1565), Master of Perspective, Nuremberg (£750,000).
The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Eight artists withdraw from Whitney Biennial

Art news daily: 22 July

22 Jul 2019
Royal statues from the kingdom of Dahomey (Benin), dating from 1890–92, currently at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, photo: Gerald Julien/AFP/Getty Images
The Weston at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
P.A.I.N. activists at the Louvre in Paris on 1 July 2019.
The novelist Ahdaf Soueif, who has announced her resignation from the board of trustees of the British Museum, photographed in London in 2016.
Aerial view of the Tulip.
Street art by the French artist Eltono, in Beijing's Caochangdi art district.

Beijing artists evicted from two arts districts

Art news daily: 12 July

12 Jul 2019
Three of the items seized by the Department of Homeland Security during the course of the investigation into Subhash Kapoor and his co-defendants.
Anne Ellegood. Photo by Mark Hanauer.

Anne Ellegood appointed director of ICA, Los Angeles

Art news daily: 10 July

10 Jul 2019
The Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Joan Weinstein becomes director of Getty Foundation

Art news daily: 9 July

9 Jul 2019
The Guggenheim Museum in New York, photographed in July 2019.
Leon Kossoff. Photo: © Toby Glanville; courtesy Annely Juda

Leon Kossoff (1926–2019)

Art news daily: 5 July

5 Jul 2019
A reconstructed Iron Age farmstead at St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales.

St Fagans in Wales wins Art Fund Museum of the Year

Art news daily: 4 July

4 Jul 2019
Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
David Koloane in 2016.

David Koloane (1938–2019)

2 July

2 Jul 2019
Michelangelo's marble statue of 'David', pictured at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence on 24 May 2004.
St Peter’s Seminary in 2017.
Kate Fowle.

Kate Fowle appointed as director of MoMA PS1

Art news daily: 27 June

27 Jun 2019
Judith and Holofernes, (c. 1607), attributed to Caravaggio, photo: © Cabinet Turquin

Peter Selz (1919–2019)

Art news daily: 24 June

24 Jun 2019
Jill Medvedow, director of ICA Boston, and co-author of the resolution adopted by the American Association of Museum Directors.