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The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, photographed on 3 September 2018, a day after a fire devastated the building.

Italy pledges to loan 2,000 artefacts to National Museum in Brazil

Art news daily: 20 June

20 Jun 2019
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Hannah Rothschild with Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria’ , National Gallery

Hannah Rothschild steps down as National Gallery’s chair of trustees

Art news daily: 19 June

19 Jun 2019
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Yana Peel, who has resigned as the CEO of the Serpentine Galleries, speaking at a press conference at the gallery in 2016.

Serpentine Galleries CEO Yana Peel resigns

Art news daily: 18 June

18 Jun 2019
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Sotheby's, New York, in June 2004. Photo: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images

Sotheby’s to pass into private ownership after 31 years as a public company

Art news daily: 17 June

17 Jun 2019
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Joyce Pensato in 2014.

Joyce Pensato (1941–2019)

Art news daily: 14 June

14 Jun 2019
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Frida Kahlo with Olmec figurine (1939), Nickolas Muray.

Mexico library claims to discover first known audio of Frida Kahlo

Art news daily: 13 June

13 Jun 2019
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Tate signs memorandum to support Shanghai’s new Pudong Museum of Art

Art news daily: 12 June

12 Jun 2019
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Amada Cruz.

Amada Cruz named director and CEO of Seattle Art Museum

Art news daily: 11 June

11 Jun 2019
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The Sagrada Família entering its final construction phase in 2015, photo: Getty Images

Sagrada Família obtains building permit 137 years after construction began

Art news daily: 10 June

10 Jun 2019
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Rein Wolfs

Rein Wolfs appointed director of Stedelijk Museum

Art news daily: 7 June

7 Jun 2019
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Royal Museums Greenwich’s National Maritime Museum in London.

Former shipping executive Paddy Rodgers to direct Royal Museums Greenwich

Art news daily: 6 June

6 Jun 2019
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‘Sun and Sea’ by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, Photo: Neon Realism

Freelands Foundation finds improvement in art-world gender parity

Art news daily: 5 June

5 Jun 2019
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Wisteria (c. 1925), Claude Monet.

Gemeentemuseum discovers water lilies under wisteria painting by Monet

Art news daily: 4 June

4 Jun 2019
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Salvator Mundi (c. 1500), Leonardo da Vinci. Christie's

Leonardo expert declines to support attribution of Salvator Mundi

Art News Daily: 3 June

3 Jun 2019
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Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

Transgender activists to be honoured with monument in New York

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Transgender activists to be honoured with monument in New York |…

31 May 2019
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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 issues citywide survey for second time

Art news daily: 30 May

30 May 2019
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Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, early on April 16, 2019.

Notre-Dame must be restored to previous appearance, says Senate

Art news daily: 29 May

29 May 2019
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Boston Museum of Fine Arts takes action over racism claim

Art news daily: 28 May

28 May 2019
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Tournament in Front of Castle Steen (1635–37), Peter Paul Rubens.

Flemish tourist board acquires castle that belonged to Rubens

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Visit Flanders to acquire Rubens’ Elewijt Castle | A castle once…

24 May 2019
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Judith Kerr (1923–2019) at her home in west London in 2018.

Judith Kerr (1923–2019)

Art news daily: 23 May

23 May 2019
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The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, photographed on 3 September 2018, a day after a fire devastated the building.

Director of Brazil’s National Museum to seek funding from Europe

Art news daily: 22 May

22 May 2019
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Loch Lomond’s shores in Balloch.

Loch Lomond development plan draws record number of objections

Art news daily: 21 May

21 May 2019
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The Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA) in Los Angeles in May 2019.

MOCA to offer free admission

Art News Daily: 20 May

20 May 2019
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I.M. Pei photographed in 2004.

I.M. Pei (1917–2019)

Art news daily: 17 May

17 May 2019
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