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First pharaoh’s tomb discovered in Egypt in more than 100 years
Plus: Netherlands returns 113 Benin bronzes to Nigeria and British Museum chooses Lina Ghotmeh to redesign ancient sculpture galleries
Creative Australia faces backlash after deselecting Venice Biennale artist
Plus: Qatar to get permanent national pavilion at Venice Biennale | Walter Robinson (1950–2025) | Brent Sikkema’s husband charged with hiring his killer
French arts sector denounces French budget cuts
Plus Brooklyn Museum to lay off tenth of its workforce | Crypto entrepreneur sues David Geffen for return of Giacometti sculpture | Christie’s withdraws El Greco from sale after Romanian objections
Macron announces ‘new Renaissance’ for Louvre, and new home for Mona Lisa
Plus: Native American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has died at the age of 85 | Dutch police name suspects in theft of Romanian gold
Macron to make announcement after leaks about Louvre’s dilapidated state
Plus: Artnet founder to retire after three decades | painter Jo Baer has died at the age of 95 | and insurers refuse pay out to owners of fake Basquiats
Visionary film director David Lynch dies aged 78
Plus: Des Moines Art Center settles with land artist Mary Miss | Martina Droth is the new director of the Yale Center for British Art | Bonnie Brennan is the new CEO of Christies
Southern California devastated by wildfires, with blazes still not under control
Plus: Germany approves new binding arbitration tribunal for Nazi-looted art, and Texas police seize Sally Mann photos from Forth Worth exhibition
UK signs cultural deals with Saudi Arabia
Plus: France signs lucrative culture deals with Saudi Arabia and Sotheby’s cuts more than 100 staff around the world
UK government won’t prevent Parthenon marbles being loaned to Greece
Plus: Jasleen Kaur wins this year’s Turner Prize; and Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plans for new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building
Slovak National Gallery’s department heads resign – with 177 staff threatening to follow
Plus: Rotterdam becomes first Dutch city to return colonial objects to Indonesia; and City of London votes to close Smithfield and Billingsgate markets for good
Magritte painting sells for $121m – highest sum ever for a Surrealist work
Plus: UNESCO places 34 sites in Lebanon under ‘enhanced protection’; Berlin to cut its arts budget by €130m; and an armed heist at the Musée Cognacq-Jay
Frank Auerbach has died at the age of 93
Plus: Italian police uncover a pan-European network of art forgers; and the British Museum receives a gift of Chinese ceramics worth £1bn
Sotheby’s announces first auction in Saudi Arabia – and completes Breuer Building deal
Plus: Art Basel reported to be in talks to run Abu Dhabi Art; Ashmolean acquires rare work by Fra Angelico; and Daniel Spoerri (1930–2024)
Tens of thousands flee Baalbek after Israel issues evacuation order including World Heritage site
Plus: the UK budget announced, with mixed news for the arts; and archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city in Mexico
Frieze’s parent company considering selling art fairs and magazine
Plus: the Whitney Museum of American Art is making admission free for under-26s after a donation from Julie Mehretu; and Gary Indiana has died at the age of 74
Christine Macel steps down as director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Plus: National Gallery in London bans liquids, Lisa Schiff pleads guilty to defrauding clients, and Darren Walker is the next president of the NGA in Washington, D.C.
Directors of major UK museums call for attacks on artworks to stop
Plus: Lebanon’s culture minister calls for the country’s heritage sites to be protected from Israeli bombing; and a shield looted by the British in 1868 will be returned to Ethiopia
Plans revived for Centre Pompidou satellite in New Jersey
Plus: climate activists acquitted in Manchester, Hammer Museum appoints Zoë Ryan as its new director, and researchers find 7th-century throne room in Peru
Climate activists throw soup at Van Gogh paintings after jailing of fellow protestors
Plus: Unesco describes ‘unprecedented’ threat to Sudan’s cultural heritage, and Volodymyr Zelensky calls for ‘the decolonisation of Ukrainian art’
Frick Collection’s next director is Royal Academy’s Axel Rüger
Plus: the Netherlands returns 288 objects seized from Indonesia during colonial rule; and LACMA postpones opening new building to visitors to 2026
Glenn Lowry to step down as MoMA director after 30 years
The museum’s longest serving director is leaving in 2025; plus the artist Rebecca Horn has died at the age of 80, and the Italian culture minister has resigned after hiring his lover as an advisor
Sotheby’s earnings plummet by 88 per cent in first half of year
Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum
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
Creative Scotland closes its key fund for artists amid government budget freeze
Plus: Staff at the Noguchi Museum stage a walk-out over its dress code; and Alain Delon (1935–2024)
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