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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.
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