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Former head of Frieze fairs Victoria Siddall appointed director of National Portrait Gallery
Plus: British museum shortlists five architects for major refurbishment, and the art historian David Anfam has died at the age of 69
British prime minister snubs Greek prime minister over Parthenon marbles
Plus: Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) | Dutch museum returns Scythian gold artefacts to Ukraine | and the rest of the week’s art news
The week in art news – Switzerland sets up new committee on restitution
Plus: British Museum lends its most important Greek vase to Greece and German cities cancel photography event after allegations of anti-Semitism and curators’ resignations
Alleged head of Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring extradited to Paris
Plus: The Frick Pittsburgh has postponed an exhibition of Islamic art, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Mark Jones to be appointed interim director of crisis-hit British Museum
Plus: British Museum appoints new acting deputy director amid scandal; Christie’s cancels further sales from the collection of Heidi Horten, and the rest of the week’s art news
UNESCO to put Venice on endangered heritage list
Plus: the number of daily visitors to the Acropolis is being capped and a Fondation Beyeler employee is on trial for embezzling funds
The week in art news – Sotheby’s is buying the Breuer Building
Plus: Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Australian museums to receive major funding boost
Plus: Kwame Brathwaite (1938–2023), John Leighton to depart National Galleries of Scotland, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Greek museums forced to close by protesting archaeologists
Plus: Musée d’Orsay to restitute major works by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin, and the rest of the week’s top stories
British Museum confirms Parthenon marbles talks with Greece
Plus: John Akomfrah and Grayson Perry knighted, Louvre to limit visitor numbers, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – National Gallery gets go-ahead for Sainsbury Wing plans
Plus: Tom Phillips (1937–2022), Horniman hands over Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Mark Girouard (1931–2022)
Plus: New York museums required to prominently acknowledge Nazi-looted works | the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has confirmed the authorship of one of its Vermeers | and the Met has returned two sculptures to Nepal
The week in art news – Germany transfers ownership of Benin Bronzes
Plus: the Italian Ministry of Culture asks museums to refrain from selling NFTs
Platinum Jubilee events round-up
Apollo presents a few of the best events and exhibitions put on in honour the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Former director of the Louvre under investigation for money laundering and organised fraud
Jean-Luc Martinez has been indicted in connection with the purchase of five ancient Egyptian artefacts by the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Gilane Tawadros named as Whitechapel Gallery’s new director
Gilane Tawadros will become the gallery’s tenth director, following in the footsteps of Iwona Blazwick who stepped down, after 20 years, in April 2022
This week in art news – Warhol’s Blue Marilyn sells for $195m
Plus: Deane Lawson wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022 and Art Fund announces Museum of the Year shortlist
Sheena Wagstaff to leave Met’s modern and contemporary department
Plus: the Smithsonian adopts new ethical returns policy and 2,000 works of art reported to have been looted from Mariupol
Mayor of Paris orders investigation into harassment cases at city’s museums
Plus: Vlodomyr Zelensky addresses the Venice Biennale and the Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch has died at the age of 83
V&A director Martin Roth resigns
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s first foreign director is stepping down after five years in the role
Tate Modern to quit Bankside and become a village museum
Avril Djesta reports from London, where Tate Modern is to close its doors to become a regional pop-up museum
Acquisitions of the Month: February 2016
LACMA just acquired an entire house – and no ordinary house at that
With Art UK, Britain’s public collections are more accessible than ever before
A new website revolutionises how we can view publicly owned art
The threat to Yemen’s heritage
Three world heritage sites are at risk as a result of the civil war
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