In a surprise appointment, Rachida Dati is the new French culture minister
Plus: artists in Berlin protest against funding requirement to sign anti-Semitism clause | and Freeman’s and Hindman auction houses are to merge
British Museum report into thefts recommends reforms – and deputy director Jonathan Williams is leaving
Plus: the new president of Argentina has abolished the ministry of culture | and Notre-Dame is to reopen in December 2024
Russian billionaire and Swiss art dealer finally settle nine-year legal dispute
Plus: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts restitutes 44 antiquities | Jesse Darling wins the Turner Prize | and more art news
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
The week in art news – climate activists attack Velázquez painting at the National Gallery
Plus: director of Hungarian National Museum sacked, Odesa museum damaged by Russian missile strike, and the rest of the week’s top stories
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
Artforum editor fired over publication of open letter about Gaza
Plus: Robert Irwin (1928–2023), Italy appoints right-wing journalist as Venice Biennale director and the rest of the week’s top stories
Thefts were an ‘inside job’, British Museum chair tells Parliament
Plus: The Cleveland Museum of Art is suing the Manhattan DA’s office and bomb threats have led to multiple evacuations of Versailles and the Louvre
The week in art news – Swiss museum asked to cancel Cézanne sale
Plus: France and German set up a joint fund to research colonial provenance and hoard of coins with links to the Glencoe massacre discovered in Scotland
UK government publishes ‘retain and explain’ policy for controversial statues
Plus: Carnegie Museum of Natural History will no longer show humans remains and US tourist smashes Roman statues in the Israel Museum
The week in art news – Full scope of Roman Abramovich’s art collection revealed for the first time
Plus: curator in Florida fired over provenance concerns, Guy Wildenstein on trial again in Paris, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – UNESCO keeps Venice off the endangered list again
Plus: Egon Schiele works seized from US museums, Moroccan heritage sites damaged in earthquake, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Roman bust seized from Worcester Art Museum
Plus: Polish museum director dismissed by local government, Manchester Museum returns 174 items to Indigenous Australians, and the rest of the week’s art news
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
British Museum director Hartwig Fischer announces immediate departure after suspected thefts
Plus: South-east Asian countries are demanding return of looted objects from Denver Art Museum, and the rest of the week’s top stories
British Museum sacks staff member accused of stealing from collections
Plus: the gallerist Angela Flowers has died at the age of 90 and the Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director over an alleged scheme to sell forged Basquiats
The week in art news – Brice Marden (1938–2023)
Plus: Ukrainian government releases online database of artworks in the possession of Russian nationals, and the rest of the week’s top stories
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 – arrests made in connection with Celtic coin heist
Plus: two looted sculptures returned to Libya, the Dutch national photography museum to receive a new home, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Frieze buys the Armory Show and Expo Chicago
Plus: a Pistoletto sculpture has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack and Simon Lee Gallery has been placed under administration
France passes law allowing museums to return Nazi-looted art
Plus: French artist Claude Lévêque is charged with rape and the Hermitage Amsterdam is changing its name
Douglas Latchford estate forfeits $12m to settle looted antiquities case
Plus: Austrian government proposes new restitution laws and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – United States to rejoin UNESCO in July
Plus: climate activists smear paint on a Monet, Maurizio Cattelan’s banana wins a lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories
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