Dam collapse has flooded the house of the Ukrainian artist Polina Rayko
Plus: Françoise Gilot (1921–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Sotheby’s is buying the Breuer Building
Plus: Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to retire
Plus: Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), UK government plans to extend ivory ban, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Supreme Court rules against Warhol Foundation in copyright lawsuit
Plus: five men sentenced for Dresden jewellery heist, Lisa Schiff reportedly shuts up shop after lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories
After a series of scandals, the Met hires an in-house provenance team
Plus: the Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for five years, from 2025–2030, and Samuel Fosso wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
The week in art news – UNESCO calls for greater protections for artists
Plus: boycott at Kiasma in Helsinki comes to an end, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Texan princess evicted from 16th-century Roman villa
Plus: photographer turns down Sony prize after winning with AI-generated image and Artcurial expands into Switzerland
The week in art news – Australian museums to receive major funding boost
Plus: Kwame Brathwaite (1938–2023), John Leighton to depart National Galleries of Scotland, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – National Portrait Gallery and Getty agree to buy Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai
Plus: collector Myriam Ullens killed outside her home and Berlin’s Pergamon Museum to close completely for three and a half years
The week in art news – Met’s antiquities come under closer scrutiny
Plus: Bordeaux town hall set on fire in French pension protests and Hispanic Society workers to strike indefinitely
The week in art news – Whitechapel Gallery lays off senior curators
Plus: Phyllida Barlow (1944–2023), investigators link 77 Indian antiquities in the Met to smuggler Subhash Kapoor, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – Adam Weinberg to step down as Whitney director
Plus: Rafael Viñoly (1944–2023), David Chipperfield wins the Pritzker, and more art news
The week in art news – Glenstone museum receives donation of $1.9bn
Plus: Ron’s Place saved at the eleventh hour, Peter Weibel (1944–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
Joan Mitchell Foundation sends cease-and-desist to Louis Vuitton
Plus: a Spanish collector has been sentenced to prison for forging artworks and the Tate Modern has announced the next artist for the Turbine Hall commission
Greek museums forced to close by protesting archaeologists
Plus: Musée d’Orsay to restitute major works by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – heritage sites destroyed by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Plus: a shake-up at DCMS, strengthening cultural ties between France and Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the week’s art news
The week in art news – flat owners overlooked by Tate Modern win privacy case
Plus: UNESCO puts Odesa on its list of endangered sites and the fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88
The week in art news – John Akomfrah to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale
Plus: archaeological artefacts returned to Italy from the United States, and Edinburgh landmark damaged by fire
The week in art news – Peter Doig awarded $2.5m in dispute over painting he didn’t paint
Plus: three defendants confess to involvement in Green Vault jewel theft and House of Lords reports lambasts UK government’s treatment of the arts
Brazilian collector sues Detroit Institute of Art over allegedly stolen Van Gogh
Plus: the artist Michael Snow, the architect Renée Gailhoustet and the art historian Hans Belting have died this week
British Museum confirms Parthenon marbles talks with Greece
Plus: John Akomfrah and Grayson Perry knighted, Louvre to limit visitor numbers, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The Met gets 220 works by Philip Guston and a $10m donation
Plus: Adriano Pedrosa to curate the 2024 Venice Biennale, Cambridge to return Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week ’s top stories
The week in art news – Ukraine calls for cultural boycott of Russia
Plus: authorities seized looted artefacts from the home of Met trustee Shelby White, Artforum bought by Penske Media, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The week in art news – National Gallery gets go-ahead for Sainsbury Wing plans
Plus: Tom Phillips (1937–2022), Horniman hands over Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories
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