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The late sculptor Claude Lalanne, phtoographed in 2015 (photo: Luc Castel).

Claude Lalanne (1924–2019)

Art news daily: 11 April

11 Apr 2019
Courtney J. Martin.

Courtney J. Martin to direct Yale Center for British Art

Art news daily: 10 April

10 Apr 2019
The Pinacoteca de São Paulo.
Anthony d’Offay in front of ‘untitled: upturnedhouse 2’ (2012) by Phyllida Barlow, at Tate Modern, London on 14 January 2016. Photo: NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP/Getty Images
Ingrid van Engelshoven (Minister of Education, Culture and Science) with Meriem Bennani (Winner Art & Film Prize 2019) and Sandra den Hamer (Director Eye) during the Eye Film gala 2019

Meriem Bennani wins EYE Art & Film Prize

Art news daily: 5 April

5 Apr 2019
Jimmie Durham.
Aerial view of the Tulip.
Ritual offerings found at Lake Titicaca. Photo: Teddy Seguin
Jean Rene, aka JR walks in the Cour Napoleon of the Louvre Museum as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Louvre Pyramid, Photo: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

Louvre paper installation destroyed in one day

Art news daily: 1 April

1 Apr 2019
Agnes Varda in front of 'La Grand Mer', one of her works on display at the Vitry-sur-Seine museum outside Paris, in 2010, photo: © MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images

Agnès Varda (1928–2019)

Art news daily: 29 March

29 Mar 2019
Madonna of the Pomegranate (c. 1487), Botticelli's workshop.

Botticelli ‘copy’ reattributed to artist’s studio

Art news daily: 28 March

28 Mar 2019
Arthur Brand with the recovered Buste de Femme (1938) by Picasso.

Stolen Picasso recovered after 20 years

Art news daily: 27 March

27 Mar 2019
Jerwood Gallery.

Jerwood Gallery to relaunch as Hastings Contemporary

Art news daily: 26 March

26 Mar 2019
The Sackler Courtyard at the Victoria and Albert Museum, photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Sackler Trust suspends UK donations

Art news daily: 25 March

25 Mar 2019
The Switch House, now named The Blavatnik Building, at Tate Modern,Photo: © Iwan Baan
View of a Dutch Square (detail; c. 1700), Jan van der Heyden.

Japanese company launches $1m contemporary art prize

Art news daily: 20 March

20 Mar 2019
The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, London in summer 2018.
Edmund Capon, pictured with a calligraphy painting from his own collection in 1999.

Edmund Capon (1940–2019)

Art news daily: 18 March

18 Mar 2019
Okwui Enwezor in Venice in 2015.

Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019)

Art news daily: 15 March

15 Mar 2019
Monika Grütters, the federal government commissioner for culture and the media in Germany.
The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester.

Curator cuts at Leicester museums spark outrage

Art news daily: 13 March

13 Mar 2019
John Richardson in 2008.

John Richardson (1924–2019)

Art news daily: 12 March

12 Mar 2019
Winter Palace building housing the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.