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The week in art news – Sam Gilliam (1933–2022)
Plus: Daniel H. Weiss is stepping down as president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The week in art news – plan to demolish and rebuild Royal British Columbia Museum scrapped
Plus: Documenta removes artwork at centre of anti-Semitism allegations
British Museum chair George Osborne says ‘deal’ can be done over Parthenon Marbles
Plus: Smithsonian board votes to return 29 Benin Bronzes | UK places a temporary export bar on £19m Poussin painting | Marina Lambraki-Plaka, the director of the National Gallery in Athens, has died at the age of 83
The week in art news – Paula Rego (1935–2022)
The Portuguese-British painter renowned worldwide for her vivid and unsettling fairy-tale visions has died at the age of 87
The week in art news – former head of the Louvre investigated for money laundering and organised fraud
Plus: the art dealer Inigo Philbrick has been sentenced to seven years in prison | The new French culture minister is Rima Abdul Malak
The week in art news – Macklowe collection sells for record-breaking $922m
Plus: Angus Grossart has died at the age of 85 | Brazilian curator resigns amid MASP controversy | Protest takes place outside the Whitney | Ukrainian soldiers discover ancient artefacts in Odessa
The week in art news – Deborah Swallow to retire as director of the Courtauld Institute
Plus: Ukraine demolishes statue symbolising friendship with Russia and winners of the competition to renew the Barbican Centre announced
The week in art news – Turner Prize shortlist announced
Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival
The week in art news – Getty Trust appoints Katherine Fleming as president
Plus: Charles Darwin’s stolen notebooks returned to Cambridge University | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego reopens | Finland seizes art shipments from Russia worth €42m
US Supreme Court to rule on dispute over Warhol’s use of Prince photograph
Plus: The Met has returned two statues to Libya and Qatar is to build three new museums in Doha
The week in art news – Mariupol art school bombed with civilians sheltering inside
Plus: Bonhams acquires Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen | Budi Tek (1957–2022) | Planning permission granted for Madison Square Garden Sphere in East London
The week in art news – France launches emergency fund for Ukrainian artists
Plus: MoMA to review security protocols after recent stabbings and Francis Kéré wins Pritzker Architecture Prize
The week in art news – Ukrainians try to safeguard cultural heritage
The head of Unesco’s World Heritage Centre has said that it is receiving ‘more and more reports of the destruction…
The week in art news – Unesco voices concern for Ukrainian heritage sites
Unesco has said that it is ‘gravely concerned’ about the security of Ukrainian heritage sites from damage caused during the…
The week in art news – Ukrainian museums try to protect their collections
Plus: a Neolithic site has been discovered in Jordan and the Weltmuseum’s audioguide was hacked by activitists
Met acquires much-coveted Renaissance roundel for $23m
The second most expensive purchase the Met has ever made is a stunning Italian bronze – and efforts to keep it in the UK have come to nothing
Belgium hands over full inventory of objects to DRC
Plus: Carmen Herrera (1915–2022) and David Zwirner becomes latest gallery to announce a branch in Los Angeles
The week in art news – SFMOMA appoints Christopher Bedford as director
Plus: Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale to merge and Jonathan Watkins to step down as director of Ikon
The week in art news – UK government announces ‘levelling-up’ plans
On Tuesday, the UK government published widely awaited proposals for its ‘levelling up’ programme to increase economic activity across the…
The week in art news – Art Basel owner bumps FIAC from its slot with a new Paris fair
Plus: Art Basel Hong Kong postponed to May and France to restitute 15 works looted by the Nazis
The week in art news – TEFAF Maastricht moves to June, now jam-packed with fairs
Plus: The Courtauld Institute and Kings College London have announced a 10-year ‘strategic partnership’
The week in art news – Colston Four cleared of criminal damage
Plus: Iwona Blazwick to step down as director of Whitechapel Gallery, and more of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Danish and Dutch museums close in lockdowns
Plus: TEFAF and Salon du Dessin have been postponed, bell hooks (1952–2021), and more of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Metropolitan Museum of Art to remove Sackler name from its galleries
Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts