Plus: the Netherlands returns 288 objects seized from Indonesia during colonial rule; and LACMA postpones opening new building to visitors to 2026
The museum’s longest serving director is leaving in 2025; plus the artist Rebecca Horn has died at the age of 80, and the Italian culture minister has resigned after hiring his lover as an advisor
Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum
Plus: British museum shortlists five architects for major refurbishment, and the art historian David Anfam has died at the age of 69
Plus: Staff at the Noguchi Museum stage a walk-out over its dress code; and Alain Delon (1935–2024)
Plus: the British Museum admits that it broke the law; and Kasper König (1943–2024)
Plus: Harvard refuses to remove Sackler name from university art museum, and Slovak culture minister fires director of the national gallery
UK government scraps Stonehenge tunnel, and American Museum of Natural History repatriates the remains of 124 individuals
Plus: US officials recover $1.2m Picasso drawing and Venice’s tourist tax has raised much more than expected
Plus: UK government reintroduces Holocaust Memorial Bill; and video artist Bill Viola has died at the age of 73
Plus: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a new president, and a 4,000-year-old temple and theatre complex is unearthed in northern Peru
Plus: Documenta appoints new search committee for an artist director | Jacqueline de Jong (1939–2024)
Plus: Eike Schmidt loses bid to become mayor of Florence; and US Supreme Court reverses a ruling that protected Sackler family from civil lawsuits
Plus: Matthew Teitelbaum, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is stepping down; and the art dealer Barbara Gladstone has died
Plus: Dealers Robilant+Voena hit by employee lawsuit, and French Fluxus artist Ben Vautier has died at the age of 88
Plus: the classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman has died at the age of 96
Plus: the Manhattan District Attorney returns 133 antiquities to Pakistan | and Brooke Lampley, global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby’s, is moving to Gagosian
Plus: Vatican Museums employees bring legal action over working conditions, and the film-maker Mohammad Rasoulof has been smuggled out of Iran
Plus: two Just Stop Oil protestors in their eighties attempt to break the glass protecting the Magna Carta, and 3,000-year-old gold jewellery has been stolen from Ely Museum
Plus: the historic Copenhagen stock exchange building has been devastated by a fire
Plus: Christie’s withdraws four Greek vases from auction and strike at National Museums Liverpool is set to continue
Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator
