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Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread wins the Whitechapel Gallery’s Art Icon award

Art news daily: 9 January

9 Jan 2019

Marc-Olivier Wahler

Marc-Olivier Wahler resigns as director of MSU Broad Art Museum

Art news daily: 8 January

8 Jan 2019

Stone carvings discovered in the Popoloca ruins in Puebla state, photo: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico

Temple of ‘Flayed Lord’ discovered in Mexico

Art news daily: 7 January

7 Jan 2019

Installation view of Damien Hirst’s Demon with Bowl in ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2017.

Las Vegas casino buys 60-foot-high sculpture by Damien Hirst

Art news daily: 4 January

4 Jan 2019

A sign outside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on 1 October 2013, during the 16-day US government shutdown of 2013.

National Gallery of Art closes to public in Washington, D.C.

Art news daily: 3 Januaury

3 Jan 2019

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt with a framed photograph of 'Vase of Flowers' and the word 'stolen' in Italian, English and German. Photo: @UffiziGalleries via Twitter

Uffizi Gallery asks Germany to return Nazi-looted painting

Art news daily: 2 January

2 Jan 2019

Rendering of Renzo Piano’s design for a new bridge in Genoa.

Renzo Piano designs for Genoa bridge revealed

Art news daily: 20 December

20 Dec 2018

Tania Bruguera

Tania Bruguera files lawsuit against Cuban government

Art news daily: 19 December

19 Dec 2018

Excavations begin at newly discovered ancient Egyptian tomb

Art news daily: 18 December

18 Dec 2018

New York performing arts centre receives $89m grant

Art news daily: 17 December

17 Dec 2018

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center in Washington, D.C., with the Washington Monument and National Mall in the background.

Anthea Hartig to direct Smithsonian Museum of American History

Art news daily: 14 December

14 Dec 2018

José Olympio da Veiga Pereira.

Fundação Bienal de São Paulo appoints a new president

Art news daily: 13 December

13 Dec 2018

Kaywin Feldman

Kaywin Feldman named first female director of National Gallery of Art in Washington

Art news daily: 12 December

12 Dec 2018

Hoa Hakananai'a, displayed at the British Museum in November 2018.

Easter Island mayor suggests Moai statue should stay in Britain

Art news daily: 11 December

11 Dec 2018

The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Activist group stages protest at Whitney Museum

Art news daily: 10 December

10 Dec 2018

A portrait of Lothar Baumgarten at work for his show ‘America Invention’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1993.

Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018)

Art news daily: 7 December

7 Dec 2018

Cloud Gate (2006), Anish Kapoor.

Anish Kapoor reaches out-of-court settlement with the NRA

Art news daily: 6 December

6 Dec 2018

Charlotte Prodger, winner of the Turner Prize 2018. Photo: Emile Holba 2018

Charlotte Prodger wins 2018 Turner Prize for iPhone films

Art news daily: 5 December

5 Dec 2018

The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Whitney Museum director responds to concerns over vice chair’s business ties

Art news daily: 4 December

4 Dec 2018

A burnt-out truck on the Champs Elysees in Paris, BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images

Several Paris museums close amid Yellow Vest protests

Art news daily: 3 December

3 Dec 2018

An untitled work by Robert Morris on display at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 2012. Photo: © Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images

Robert Morris (1931–2018)

Art news daily: 30 November

30 Nov 2018

Photograph long thought to be of Van Gogh is artist’s brother

Art news daily: 29 November

29 Nov 2018

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Berkshire Museum completes controversial deaccessioning sales

Art news daily: 28 November

28 Nov 2018

Wanamaker Block (detail; 1955), Franz Kline. Yale University Art Gallery.

Hauser & Wirth opens non-profit institute for artists’ archives

Art news daily: 27 November

27 Nov 2018

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