The week in art news – hundreds of ancient coins stolen from German museum
Plus: Nottingham Castle Trust goes into liquidation, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Larry Gagosian plans for the future
Plus: German government introduces €200 Kulturpass scheme | American couple accused of smuggling in Guatemala | Divya Mehra wins Sobey Award in Canada
The week in art news – Mark Hallett named director of the Courtauld
Plus: museum directors denounce Just Stop Oil protests, Paul Allen collection sells for more than $1.6bn, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Arts Council England announces its national funding portfolio
Plus: Subhash Kapoor sentenced to ten years in prison, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Frances Morris to step down from Tate Modern
Plus: Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), and a shake-up at the head of Art Basel
The week in art news – striking Philadelphia Museum of Art workers reach contract agreement
Plus: more looted objects connected to art dealer Subhash Kapoor returned to India, and the rest of the week’s art news
The week in art news – cultural sites in Kyiv damaged by Russian bombardment
Plus: climate protestors arrested at National Gallery, restitution loophole in the new Charities Act likely to be closed, Angus Trumble (1964–2022)
The week in art news – Glasgow City Council to sell the Kelvingrove
Plus: the Charities Act of February 2022 grants museums new powers over restitution, Bard College establishes endowment of $50m for the study of Indigenous art, and more art news
The week in art news – lights out early at the Louvre
Plus: Dimitrios Pandermalis (1940–2022) | and the Prado investigates its holdings for works seized during the Spanish Civil War
Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022)
The United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch served as patron of numerous arts organisations
The week in art news – Met director Max Hollein to take on chief executive role as well
Plus: new appointments at the National Gallery of Ireland and RIBA, Design Miami Paris cancelled amid security fears, and Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan museum
The week in art news – Germany transfers ownership of Benin Bronzes
Plus: the Italian Ministry of Culture asks museums to refrain from selling NFTs
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
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
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 – 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
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
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