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Europol announced 75 arrests and the recovery of over 3,500 stolen works of art and cultural goods as part of 'Operation Pandora'.

Europol sting recovers 18,000 stolen artefacts

Art news daily: 7 August

7 Aug 2019
Amedeo Modigliani's Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) at Sotheby's Hong Kong in April 2018.

In defence of the catalogue raisonné

With the art market crying out for definitive catalogues, a new international association has been launched to support their production

5 Aug 2019
Orpheus Enchanting the Animals (16th century), attributed to Titian’s workshop.
A visualisation of what visitors to the Ara Pacis Museum see via their AR headsets. Image: © Zètema Progetto Cultura

The digital reconstructions bringing Roman ruins to life

From the Circus Maximus to the Ara Pacis, virtual and augmented reality can enhance our experience of ancient sites

30 Jul 2019
The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck

Eight artists withdraw from Whitney Biennial

Art news daily: 22 July

22 Jul 2019
Royal statues from the kingdom of Dahomey (Benin), dating from 1890–92, currently at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, photo: Gerald Julien/AFP/Getty Images
The Weston at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Three of the items seized by the Department of Homeland Security during the course of the investigation into Subhash Kapoor and his co-defendants.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Joan Weinstein becomes director of Getty Foundation

Art news daily: 9 July

9 Jul 2019
The Guggenheim Museum in New York, photographed in July 2019.
Untitled Film Still #21, (1978), Cindy Sherman. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, new York; © Cindy Sherman

‘I’m trying to erase myself’ – an interview with Cindy Sherman

The artist has been taking photographs of herself for more than 40 years – but we mustn’t think of the results as self-portraits

27 Jun 2019
Joyce Pensato in 2014.

Joyce Pensato (1941–2019)

Art news daily: 14 June

14 Jun 2019
Frida Kahlo with Olmec figurine (1939), Nickolas Muray.
Royal Museums Greenwich’s National Maritime Museum in London.
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, early on April 16, 2019.
The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, photographed on 3 September 2018, a day after a fire devastated the building.
The Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA) in Los Angeles in May 2019.

MOCA to offer free admission

Art News Daily: 20 May

20 May 2019
The Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Turner Contemporary in Margate.
Untitled (1950–55), Seydou Keïta.

Frieze, 1–54, and more – what’s in store in New York this month

A large slice of the Big Apple is given over to the two contemporary art fairs this May

1 May 2019
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, early on April 16, 2019.
Okwui Enwezor in Venice in 2015.

‘The world was better because Okwui was around, fighting for what he believed’

Okwui Enwezor was not just an influential curator, but one of the most important public intellectuals of our time

16 Apr 2019
Hand puppets (from a set of five) (c. 1923), Eberhardt Schrammen. Klassik Stiftung Weimar

‘People have to be reminded that the Bauhaus started here’ – inside the new Bauhaus Museum in Weimar

The city is taking pains to address all aspects – both good and bad – of the legendary design school’s history

11 Apr 2019
The Pinacoteca de São Paulo.