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The Switch House, now named The Blavatnik Building, at Tate Modern,Photo: © Iwan Baan
View of a Dutch Square (detail; c. 1700), Jan van der Heyden.

Japanese company launches $1m contemporary art prize

Art news daily: 20 March

20 Mar 2019
The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, London in summer 2018.
Edmund Capon, pictured with a calligraphy painting from his own collection in 1999.

Edmund Capon (1940–2019)

Art news daily: 18 March

18 Mar 2019
Okwui Enwezor in Venice in 2015.

Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019)

Art news daily: 15 March

15 Mar 2019
Monika Grütters, the federal government commissioner for culture and the media in Germany.
The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester.

Curator cuts at Leicester museums spark outrage

Art news daily: 13 March

13 Mar 2019
John Richardson in 2008.

John Richardson (1924–2019)

Art news daily: 12 March

12 Mar 2019
Winter Palace building housing the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Brian Kennedy
Carolee Schneemann in London in May 2017.

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019)

Art news daily: 7 March

7 Mar 2019
The Kunsthalle Wien.
Photo: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images

Italy agrees to loan Leonardos to the Louvre

Art news daily: 5 March

5 Mar 2019

Kevin Roche (1922–2019)

Art news daily: 4 March

4 Mar 2019
The National Gallery in London.
Philippe Vergne, newly appointed director of the Serralves Museum in Porto.

Philippe Vergne to direct Serralves Museum in Portugal

Art news daily: 28 February

28 Feb 2019
A Banksy mural unveiled in New York in March 2018 to raise awareness of the imprisonment of Zehra Doğan.

Mary Boone announces she will close her gallery

Art news daily: 25 February

25 Feb 2019

Indonesian art collective to curate Documenta 15

Art news daily: 22 February

22 Feb 2019
Personifications of the eight cardinal virtues (1650–1700), southern Germany, probably Augsburg.
Naiza Khan. Image courtesy Rossi & Rossi, London

Naiza Khan to represent Pakistan at Venice Biennale

Art news daily: 20 February

20 Feb 2019
Karl Lagerfeld photographed at the Palazzo Vecchio in 2015.

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019)

Art news daily: 19 February

19 Feb 2019