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Model for Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde identified

Art news daily: 25 September

25 Sep 2018
The Met Breuer, New York, photographed in 2016.

Frick Collection looks set to move into the Breuer building

Art news daily: 24 September

24 Sep 2018
Robert Venturi in Las Vegas in 1968.

Robert Venturi (1925–2018)

Art news daily: 20 September

20 Sep 2018
Geta Brătescu, photographed in 2015.

Geta Brătescu (1926–2018)

Art news daily: 18 September

19 Sep 2018
Elliot Bostwick Davis, newly appointed director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art.

Elliot Bostwick Davis named director of Norton Museum of Art

Art news daily: 18 September

18 Sep 2018
The Glasgow School of Art on 22nd June, photo: © Robert Perry/Getty Images
The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, London in summer 2018.
Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov in Moscow on 31 July 2018.

Suspected poisoning of Pussy Riot member

Art news daily: 13 September

13 Sep 2018
Photo courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art
Self-portrait (n.d.), Anne Vallayer-Coster.
Tristram Hunt,
BEINGSAFEISSCARY (2017), Banu Cennetoğlu. ​Fridericianum, Kassel
Mary Boone in 2008. Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images

Dealer Mary Boone pleads guilty to two counts of tax fraud

Art news daily: 6 September

6 Sep 2018
Bonhams, London.

Bonhams sold to private equity fund Epiris

Art news daily: 4 September

4 Sep 2018

Devastating fire destroys the National Museum of Brazil

Art news daily: 3 September

3 Sep 2018
Paul Taylor's dance company rehearsing at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, November 1964.

Paul Taylor (1930–2018)

Art news daily : 31 August

31 Aug 2018
The Guggenheim Museum in New York, photographed in 2004.
The Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Major Dutch museums drop Shell sponsorship

Art news daily: 29 August

29 Aug 2018
Egon Schiele’s Woman Hiding Her Face (1912), formerly owned by Fritz Grünbaum. In April a New York judge ruled that the drawing was Nazi-looted and that it be returned to Grünbaum’s heirs.
The Valley of the Fallen in Es Escorial, Spain.
Camillo Borghese (c. 1810), François-Pascal-Simon Gérard. Courtesy of The Frick Collection, New York
Chase F. Robinson, who has been named director of the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries.