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Ai Weiwei, photographed in Mexico City in 2019.
A cruise ship passes close to the church San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice on 26 September 2014.

Venice will reroute cruise ships away from city centre

Art news daily: 8 August

8 Aug 2019
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
Installation view of Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung’s Statue of a Girl of Peace (2011) at the Aichi Triennale 2019 in Nagoya.
The Dark Rigi: The Lake of Lucerne, Showing the Rigi at Sunrise (1842), J.M.W. Turner.
Liz Truss, the UK International Trade Secretary outside 10 Downing Street. Photo: Getty/Chris J Ratcliffe
Orpheus Enchanting the Animals (16th century), attributed to Titian’s workshop.
Karsten Schubert photographed by Helen Taylor, October 1990

Karsten Schubert (1961–2019)

Art news daily: 31 July

31 Jul 2019
Firefighters at the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main on 29 July 2019.
Carlos Cruz-Diez in Liverpool

Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923–2019)

Art news daily: 29 July

29 Jul 2019
The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2014. Photo: Timothy Schenck
Warren Kanders and Allison Kanders at the Whitney Gala 2012.

Warren Kanders resigns as vice chair of Whitney board

Art news daily: 25 July

25 Jul 2019

Renaissance shipwreck found in Baltic Sea

Art news daily: 24 July

24 Jul 2019
The court casket from Newbattle Abbey (1565), Master of Perspective, Nuremberg (£750,000).
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.
P.A.I.N. activists at the Louvre in Paris on 1 July 2019.
The novelist Ahdaf Soueif, who has announced her resignation from the board of trustees of the British Museum, photographed in London in 2016.
Aerial view of the Tulip.
Street art by the French artist Eltono, in Beijing's Caochangdi art district.

Beijing artists evicted from two arts districts

Art news daily: 12 July

12 Jul 2019
Three of the items seized by the Department of Homeland Security during the course of the investigation into Subhash Kapoor and his co-defendants.
Anne Ellegood. Photo by Mark Hanauer.

Anne Ellegood appointed director of ICA, Los Angeles

Art news daily: 10 July

10 Jul 2019
The Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Joan Weinstein becomes director of Getty Foundation

Art news daily: 9 July

9 Jul 2019