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Kanye West photographed in December 2018.

Kanye West donates $10m for James Turrell crater in Arizona

Art news daily: 15 January

15 Jan 2019
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

Christians protest against McJesus sculpture in Haifa

Art news daily: 14 January

14 Jan 2019
Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky poses after setting fire to the doors of the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB, in central Moscow early on November 9, 2015. Photo by NIGINA BEROEVA/AFP via Getty Images
Daniel Potter, assistant curator at National Museum of Scotland, with a casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Rachel Whiteread
Marc-Olivier Wahler
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.
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.
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
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.
José Olympio da Veiga Pereira.

Fundação Bienal de São Paulo appoints a new president

Art news daily: 13 December

13 Dec 2018
Kaywin Feldman
Hoa Hakananai'a, displayed at the British Museum in November 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
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