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Art Basel seeks to reassure nervous exhibitors ahead of fair
Plus: MOCA LA names its first executive director, the Robert E. Lee statue can be removed from Richmond, and more stories
The week in art news – fears grow for the safety of cultural workers in Afghanistan
Plus: Amsterdam is to return a Kandinsky to the heirs of its former owner
The week in art news – Chuck Close (1940–2021)
Chuck Close has died at the age of 81. The photorealist painter first came to prominence in the late 1960s…
The week in art news – deputy leader of Westminster Council resigns over Marble Arch Mound fiasco
Plus: new directors of the Southbank Centre in London and ICP in New York, and other stories
The week in art news – Stonehenge road tunnel ruled unlawful, but plans still going ahead
Plus: More than 17,000 looted artefacts returned to Iraq
The week in art news – Science Museum signed gagging clause in sponsorship agreement with Shell
Plus: Phillip King (1934–2021) and Xavier Rey appointed director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris
Liverpool loses Unesco World Heritage status
Plus: France requires vaccine passports for cultural venues and more than 1,000 Polish cultural figures criticise dismissal of museum director
The week in art news – Christian Boltanski (1944–2021)
Plus: Kunsthaus Zürich appoints Ann Demeester as its new director and Charlottesville takes down statue of Robert E. Lee
The week in art news – White House sets terms for sales of Hunter Biden’s paintings
Plus: South Korea is to build a new museum for the Samsung art collection and the co-directors of Artangel are stepping down after 30 years
The week in art news – In Canada, protestors topple statues of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II
Plus: Berlin Museums may return Benin Bronzes as early as next year and a construction worker has admitted stealing a Picasso and a Mondrian from the National Gallery in Athens
The week in art news – George Osborne to chair the board of the British Museum
Plus: Teddy Roosevelt’s statue will lose its spot outside the American Museum of Natural History, and more stories
The week in art news – Artes Mundi Prize awarded to all six shortlisted artists
Plus: MacKenzie Scott donates $2.7bn to a host of charities, including more than 60 cultural organisations
The week in art news – staff accuse Barbican Centre of being institutionally racist
Plus: the Met returns two Benin Bronzes, Donald Judd’s office in Marfa severely damaged in fire, and more stories
The week in art news – frustrated Belgian experts issue their own restitution guidelines
Plus: The Whitney has voluntarily recognised a union and Hobby Lobby is suing Dirk Obbink over alleged papyrus theft
The week in art news – Laurence des Cars becomes first woman to lead Louvre
Plus: chairs of the National Gallery and the National Trust resign; and more stories
The week in art news – in Oxford, Rhodes won’t fall after all
Oriel College, Oxford has decided not to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes – the imperialist businessman, politician and philanthropist…
The week in art news – UK government approves Whitechapel Bell Foundry becoming a boutique hotel
Plus: NGA Washington appoints E. Carmen Ramos chief curator and more stories
Five artist collectives – and no individuals – shortlisted for Turner Prize
Plus: the Istanbul Biennial has been postponed to 2022, and more stories
Germany to return Benin Bronzes from 2022
Plus: Samsung heirs to donate 23,000 artworks to South Korean museums to settle tax bill, and more stories
The week in art news – Florida makes toppling statues a felony
Plus: museums across Germany to close again this weekend, and more stories
The week in art news – Jean-Luc Martinez appointed ‘interim’ president of the Louvre
Plus: French court rules that commercial galleries must remain closed, and more stories
The week in art news – Spain stops a suspected Caravaggio from leaving the country
Plus: French galleries are suing the government to reopen, Egypt moves its royal mummies in a a televised extravaganza, and more stories
The week in art news – V&A revises plan to restructure departments
Plus: Mali and Unesco receive symbolic reparations for Timbuktu destruction, France pledges €500,000 for Sursock Museum repairs, and more stories
The week in art news – German culture minister calls for national strategy on Benin Bronzes
The German culture minister, Monika Grütters, has called a meeting next month of museums and states to form ‘a national…
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