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UK culture secretary Nicky Morgan arrives at Downing Street on 16 October 2019.

Nicky Morgan to remain as UK culture secretary

Art news daily: 17 December

17 Dec 2019

Parliament House in Canberra.

Petition against scrapping of Australian federal arts department signed by 34,000

Art news daily: 16 December

16 Dec 2019

Yves Bouvier.

Monaco court dismisses fraud charges against dealer Yves Bouvier

Art news daily: 13 December

13 Dec 2019

A detail of the disputed Frans Hals portrait at the centre of Sotheby’s lawsuit against Fairlight Art Ventures.

Sotheby’s wins lawsuit over disputed Frans Hals painting

Art news daily: 12 December

12 Dec 2019

Rebecca Salter, president of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Rebecca Salter elected first female president of RA

Art news daily: 11 December

11 Dec 2019

Bettina Korek.

Bettina Korek appointed chief executive of Serpentine Galleries

Art news daily: 10 December

10 Dec 2019

Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Performance artist eats Maurizio Cattelan banana in Miami

Art news daily: 9 December

9 Dec 2019

Clay tablet from Iraq, from between 2100 to 2000BC. Photo: Kyle Cassidy

Penn Museum returns ancient clay tablets to Iraq

Art news daily: 6 December

6 Dec 2019

Protestors in Paris on 5 December 2019.

Museums across France close or restrict access due to national strikes

Art news daily: 5 December

5 Dec 2019

The collective winners of the Turner Prize 2019.

Turner Prize awarded to all four shortlisted artists

Art news daily: 4 December

4 Dec 2019

Centre for Political Beauty activists install their work in Berlin in December 2019.

Controversial monument containing ashes from Holocaust victims installed in Berlin

Art news daily: 3 December

3 Dec 2019

Mayor of Budapest halts construction of €250m New National Gallery

Art news daily: 2 December

2 Dec 2019

The Grassi Museum in Leipzig.

State of Saxony returns indigenous remains to Australia

Art news daily: 29 November

29 Nov 2019

The Geffrye Museum.

Geffrye Museum to reopen as Museum of the Home

Art news daily: 28 November

28 Nov 2019

The ancient city of Palmyra, photographed in 2017.

Russian and Syrian officials agree plans to restore Palmyra

Art news daily: 27 November

27 Nov 2019

Belgian police intervene in ownership dispute over religious sculptures

Art news daily: 26 November

26 Nov 2019

Police outside the Residenzschloss in Dresden on 25 November 2019.

Thieves raid historic treasury at royal palace in Dresden

Art news daily: 25 November

25 Nov 2019

British metal detectorists sentenced for stealing Saxon and Viking hoard worth £3m

Art news daily: 22 November

22 Nov 2019

Jeremy Corbyn at the launch of the Labour party election manifesto in Birmingham on 21 November 2019.

Labour Party general election manifesto pledges £1bn culture boost

Art news daily: 21 November

21 Nov 2019

Pierre Le Guennec (left) leaving the courthouse in Lyon with his lawyers on September 24, 2019. Photo: Romain Lafabrègue/AFP via Getty Images

French court upholds sentence handed to Picasso’s former electrician

Art news daily: 20 November

20 Nov 2019

The Baltimore Museum of Art, which in May sold five artworks at auction for nearly $8 million to raise funds for new acquisitions. Would capitalising those works have allowed the institution to pursue its acquisition strategy without compromising its existing holdings?

Baltimore Museum of Art pledges to collect only work by women in 2020

Plus: France returns sword of Omar Saïdou Tall to Senegal | and Stephanie Comilang Wins 2019 Sobey Art Award

19 Nov 2019

The Sackler Courtyard at the Victoria and Albert Museum, photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Nan Goldin and P.A.I.N. activists stage protest at V&A

Art news daily: 18 November

18 Nov 2019

Plans to turn Whitechapel Bell Foundry into a hotel get go-ahead

Art news daily: 15 November

15 Nov 2019

Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.

Police investigate attempted theft of Rembrandts from Dulwich Picture Gallery

Art news daily: 14 November 2019

14 Nov 2019

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