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Protests against the statue of ‘Silent Sam’ on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2017.
Museum of Modern Art, New York

MoMA agrees new employment contract with union workers

Art news daily: 20 August

20 Aug 2018
Aretha Franklin (1942–2018), photo: Express Newspapers/Getty Images
A view of downtown Pittsburgh, one of the US cities whose cultural organisations are the beneficiaries of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts Innovation and Management Training Program.
Martin Puryear receiving a 2011 National Arts and Humanities Medal from then-US President Barack Obama.

Martin Puryear to represent US at next Venice Biennale

Art news daily: 15 August

15 Aug 2018
Portrait of Chelsea Manning.

ICA in London to honour Chelsea Manning

Art news daily: 14 August

14 Aug 2018
Constitutional Center, the headquarters for the National Endowment of the Humanities. Credit: NEH.gov.
Alan Jones, the newly appointed president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

RIBA appoints new president amid controversy

Art News Daily: 9 August

9 Aug 2018
The Hoa Hakananai’a at the British Museum in London.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ai Weiwei photographed in May 2018..

Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei’s studio

Art news daily: 6 August

6 Aug 2018
The Design Museum in Kensington, London.
Cordoned crime scene at Strängnäs cathedral, west of Stockholm.

Crown jewels stolen from cathedral in Sweden

Art news daily: 2 August

2 Aug 2018
Adam and Eve (around 1530) by Lucas Cranach
The Met Fifth Avenue, New York.
Charles Saumarez Smith
Marta Gili, director of the Jeu de Paume.

Jeu de Paume director Marta Gili to step down

Art news daily: 26 July

26 Jul 2018
The Design Museum in Kensington, London.
Relief of a Persian soldier (5th century B.C), Photo: © Office of the New York district attorney

US judge orders return of Persian bas-relief to Iran

Art news daily: 24 July

24 Jul 2018
Manama, capital of Bahrain, where the 2018 Art Bahrain Without Borders fair will be held.
Tate St Ives exterior visualisation. © Jamie Fobert Architects

Tate St Ives among finalists for Stirling Prize 2018

Art news daily: 19 July

19 Jul 2018