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Rein Wolfs

Rein Wolfs appointed director of Stedelijk Museum

Art news daily: 7 June

7 Jun 2019
Royal Museums Greenwich’s National Maritime Museum in London.
‘Sun and Sea’ by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, Photo: Neon Realism
Wisteria (c. 1925), Claude Monet.
Salvator Mundi (c. 1500), Leonardo da Vinci. Christie's
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

Transgender activists to be honoured with monument in New York

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31 May 2019
The Baltimore Museum of Art, which in May sold five artworks at auction for nearly $8 million to raise funds for new acquisitions. Would capitalising those works have allowed the institution to pursue its acquisition strategy without compromising its existing holdings?
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, early on April 16, 2019.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Tournament in Front of Castle Steen (1635–37), Peter Paul Rubens.

Flemish tourist board acquires castle that belonged to Rubens

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24 May 2019
Judith Kerr (1923–2019) at her home in west London in 2018.

Judith Kerr (1923–2019)

Art news daily: 23 May

23 May 2019
The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, photographed on 3 September 2018, a day after a fire devastated the building.
Loch Lomond’s shores in Balloch.
The Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA) in Los Angeles in May 2019.

MOCA to offer free admission

Art News Daily: 20 May

20 May 2019
I.M. Pei photographed in 2004.

I.M. Pei (1917–2019)

Art news daily: 17 May

17 May 2019
The Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Meules(1890), Claude Monet. Courtesy Sotheby's

$111m sale of Monet haystacks painting breaks records

Art news daily: 15 May

15 May 2019
Cody Hartley, 2019.

Cody Hartley named Georgia O’Keeffe Museum director

Art news daily: 14 May

14 May 2019
‘Sun and Sea’ by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, Photo: Neon Realism
Jean-Pierre Muster, chief executive of Unicredit, Unicredit
Drinking vessels with decorated gold neck in-situ.
Archaeological excavations at Stonehenge in 1958.
The Saatchi Gallery in London.
Turner Contemporary, Margate, photo: Carlos Dominquez

Turner Prize cuts ties with Stagecoach

Art news daily : 3 May

3 May 2019