Plus: Congress passes a bill to make it easier for heirs to recover Nazi-looted art; and a painting by El Greco has been discovered in the Vatican
Plus: EU threatens to withdraw Venice Biennale funding if Russia participates, and Italy pays €30m for a Caravaggio
Plus: UNESCO World Heritage sites are under threat as the conflict in the Middle East widens; and the Rijksmuseum has a new Rembrandt
The announcement that the president of the Palace Versailles will run the world’s most-visited museum comes a day after Des Cars resignation was accepted
Plus: the South African pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale will be empty, and the Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer has died at 88
Plus: Plans for Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey outpost scrapped; and French police arrest nine people suspected of Louvre ticket-fraud scheme
Plus: Stephen Friedman Gallery goes into administration and Philadelphia Museum of Art reverts to old name
Plus: MFA Boston makes 33 staff members redundant; and Spanish galleries to close in VAT protest
Plus: Staff at the Louvre have staged the ninth strike in a month; and museums across Minnesota closed on 23 January to protest against ICE’s presence in the city
Plus: the 120-year-old California College of the Arts will close in 2027; and the Colombian painter and sculptor Beatriz González has died at the age of 93
Plus: United States withdraws from two UN cultural heritage bodies; and Louvre workers strike over working conditions and redevelopment plans
Plus: V&A director Tristram Hunt knighted for services to museums; and resignation of Istanbul Biennial curator cuts event short by two years
Plus: an independent report finds that Arts Council England should overhaul its funding model; and the National Museum of Libya has reopened after nearly 14 years
Plus: thieves have stolen 600 items from a Bristol museum, and the photographer Martin Parr has died at the age of 73
Plus: Pace Gallery is joining forces with Emmanuel Di Donna and David Schrader for a new ‘super gallery’; and more French institutions are increasing ticket costs for non-EU residents
Plus: four more arrests made over Louvre heist and Philadelphia Art Museum accuses fired former director of awarding herself unauthorised pay rises
Plus: a Klimt painting has sold for $236.4m in New York; and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has deaccessioned ten works from its collection
Plus: Hauser & Wirth has been charged with selling luxury goods to Russia, and the sacked director of the Philadelphia Art Museum is suing for unfair dismissal
Plus: Getty Images has lost a landmark case against an AI image generator; and Sasha Suda, CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum, has been fired
Plus: the White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts; and a US climate protestor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
Plus: the Louvre director offers to resign in the wake of the jewel theft, and plans to build a tunnel under Stonehenge have been quashed
Masked thieves broke into the Gallery of Apollo on Sunday and made off with eight priceless pieces
Plus: Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant, and Manhattan DA’s Office returns 29 antiquities to Greece
Plus: Frieze is launching its first fair in the Middle East, and the film-maker Ken Jacobs has died at the age of 92
