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Watlington Hoard

UK government wants to widen legal definition of treasure

Art news daily: 1 February

1 Feb 2019
The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Mosul Museum partially reopens with contemporary exhibition

Art news daily: 30 January

30 Jan 2019
The artist Susan Hiller in 2014.

Susan Hiller (1940–2019)

Art news daily: 29 January

29 Jan 2019
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on 8 January 2019 during the US government shutdown.
Architect’s rendering of the new Vancouver Art Gallery building.

Vancouver Art Gallery receives $40m for new building

Art news daily: 24 January

24 Jan 2019
Jonas Mekas in 2015.

Jonas Mekas (1922–2019)

Art news daily: 23 January

23 Jan 2019
Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Zimbabwe biennial postponed due to political turmoil

Art news daily: 18 January

18 Jan 2019
Sebastian Cwilich. Photo: John Parra/Getty Images for Art Basel Miami 2012
Art Stage Singapore 2016. Photo: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

Art Stage Singapore cancelled

Art news daily: 16 January

16 Jan 2019
Kanye West photographed in December 2018.

Kanye West donates $10m for James Turrell crater in Arizona

Art news daily: 15 January

15 Jan 2019
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

Christians protest against McJesus sculpture in Haifa

Art news daily: 14 January

14 Jan 2019
Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky poses after setting fire to the doors of the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB, in central Moscow early on November 9, 2015. Photo by NIGINA BEROEVA/AFP via Getty Images
Daniel Potter, assistant curator at National Museum of Scotland, with a casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Rachel Whiteread
Marc-Olivier Wahler
Stone carvings discovered in the Popoloca ruins in Puebla state, photo: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico

Temple of ‘Flayed Lord’ discovered in Mexico

Art news daily: 7 January

7 Jan 2019
Installation view of Damien Hirst’s Demon with Bowl in ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2017.
A sign outside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on 1 October 2013, during the 16-day US government shutdown of 2013.
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt with a framed photograph of 'Vase of Flowers' and the word 'stolen' in Italian, English and German. Photo: @UffiziGalleries via Twitter
Rendering of Renzo Piano’s design for a new bridge in Genoa.

Renzo Piano designs for Genoa bridge revealed

Art news daily: 20 December

20 Dec 2018