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Roy Lichtenstein's 'Masterpiece' (1962; seen here at Tate Modern's 'Lichtenstein, a retrospective' exhibition in 2013) has been sold for $165 million to set up the new 'Art for Justice Fund' in support of criminal justice reform. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Criminal justice fund established with Lichtenstein sale

Art News Daily : 12 June

12 Jun 2017

Peggy Guggenheim Collection appoints new director

Art News Daily : 8 June

8 Jun 2017
A French gendarme outsdie Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on 6 June, 2017. Police shot and injured a man who attacked an officer with a hammer. Photo: BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images
Rendering of the 'Citizens in Motion' monument in Berlin,© Milla & Partner

German Parliament approves unification monument

Art News Daily : 5 June

5 Jun 2017

V&A reveals first image of new photography centre

Art News Daily : 2 June

2 Jun 2017

MoMA reveals final plans for $400m expansion

Art News Daily : 1 June

1 Jun 2017

David Hockney breaks visitor records at Tate Britain

Art News Daily : 31 May

31 May 2017

Italian museum reforms at risk after court ruling

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Court ruling undermines Italy’s museum reforms | Italian culture minister Dario…

26 May 2017

Trump’s budget for 2018 envisions elimination of NEA

Art News Daily : 24 May

24 May 2017
Schwitters's Merz Barn, Cumbria

Paris’s Musée Dapper to close in June

Art News Daily : 22 May

22 May 2017
Untitled, (1982) Jean-Michel Basquiat, courtesy Sotheby's, © 2017 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris/ARS

Basquiat painting sells for a record $110.5m

Art News Daily : 19 May

19 May 2017

Françoise Nyssen is the new French culture minister

Art News Daily : 18 May

18 May 2017

Labour manifesto promises ambitious arts agenda

Art News Daily : 17 May

17 May 2017
A picture taken on 13 May, 2017, shows mummies lying in catacombs following their discovery in the Touna el-Gabal district of the Minya province, in central Egypt. Photo: KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images

Necropolis discovered in Egypt

Art News Daily : 16 May

16 May 2017
Demonstrators march during a protest in Moscow on 14 May, 2017, against the city's controversial plan to knock down Soviet-era apartment blocks and redevelop the old neighbourhoods. ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images
Anne Imhof

Winners announced for 2017 Absolut Art Award

Art News Daily : 12 May

12 May 2017

Damien Hirst accused of cultural appropriation

Art News Daily : 11 May

11 May 2017

The Met files proposal to charge entry fees

Art News Daily : 9 May

9 May 2017