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The week in art news – Botticelli painting sells for $92m at auction
Plus: Centre Pompidou to close for three years of renovations | TEFAF Maastricht postponed to September | City of Bruges to build major new exhibition space
The week in art news – Art Basel postponed to September
Plus: Bozar damaged by fire | and City of London to remove statues with slavery links
The week in art news – world’s oldest animal painting found in Indonesia
Plus: Smithsonian scales back $2bn redevelopment plan | Naomi Beckwith appointed deputy director and chief curator of Guggenheim | and Champs-Élysées to be turned into ‘extraordinary garden’
The week in art news – Indian Supreme Court approves plans for new parliament complex
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of India dismissed objections to the construction of a new parliament complex in New Delhi. The plans, announced…
Bill restituting artefacts to Benin and Senegal passes into French law
The French parliament has finalised the restitution of 26 artefacts to the Republic of Benin and one to Senegal. Speaking…
The week in art news – lone US senator blocks bills to create national Latino and women’s museums
Mike Lee, the senior senator for the state of Utah, voted on Thursday against a pair of bills to create…
The week in art news – Tate to cut 120 gallery jobs to reduce losses
The Tate has announced that it will be making a second round of redundancies, just months after cutting 295 jobs…
The week in art news – continuing restrictions mean a patchy reopening for European museums
As a second phase of national lockdowns across Europe comes to an end, the reopening of museums will proceed at…
The week in art news – Smithsonian and other US museums close amid Covid surge
A surge in Covid-19 cases has led to the closure of museums in multiple states across the US. The Smithsonian…
The week in art news – controversial road tunnel near Stonehenge gets the go-ahead
The Secretary of State for Transport has approved plans to build a road tunnel for the A303 motorway near Stonehenge.…
The week in art news – museums and galleries in England close in new lockdown
Museums and galleries in England are now closed under new national restrictions imposed to control the spread of Covid-19. These…
The week in art news – Baltimore Museum of Art pulls works from controversial sale
On Wednesday, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) withdrew paintings by Clyfford Still and Brice Marden from the Contemporary Art…
The week in art news – Marian Goodman closes London gallery
Plus: Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning sales, and more recent stories
The week in art news – museums in Northern Ireland to close for four weeks
The Brooklyn Museum is to sell another round of works from its collection, and more recent stories
The week in art news – National Trust cuts 1,300 jobs
Plus: Nancy Spector resigns from the Guggenheim; and more recent stories
The week in art news – Kevin Young appointed director of Smithsonian’s African American history museum
The Smithsonian Institution has announced that Kevin Young will be the next director of the National Museum of African American…
The week in art news – Philip Guston show postponed to 2024
In a joint statement released on Monday, but not widely reported until later in the week, the four museums due…
The week in art news – Brooklyn Museum to sell 12 works at auction
The Brooklyn Museum has consigned a dozen works from its collections to Christie’s for auction, in the first significant example…
The week in art news – mining company chief resigns after destruction of sacred Australian sites
The world’s second largest mining company, Rio Tinto, announced today that its chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques and two other senior…
The week in art news – Art Basel Miami Beach cancelled
The organisers of Art Basel Miami Beach have cancelled this year’s edition of the fair, due to take place on…
The week in art news – the Whitney cancels ‘Collective Actions’ exhibition after criticism
On Tuesday, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York cancelled a planned exhibition of artworks created in recent months ‘in response to…
The week in art news – Tate to make almost half of its commercial staff redundant
Plus: houses in Old City of Sanaa collapse after heavy rains, and current and former MMFA staff support sacking of Nathalie Bondil
The week in art news – museums and galleries destroyed in blast that devastated Beirut
Plus: Southbank Centre staff castigate management, major US museums make more staff redundant and artefacts privately restituted to Ecuador
The week in art news – National Trust considering up to 1,200 redundancies
Plus: the House of Representatives has approved the National Museum for the American Latino, murals by Picasso have been removed from a building in Oslo, and more art news
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