Plus: Poland withdraws its Biennale submission | swingeing cuts to UK arts budgets by local councils cuts continue | and Ian Wardropper to retire as Frick director
Plus: the Academy of Arts in Berlin warns against violations of civil liberties in Germany and the Met returns 14 trafficked artefacts to Cambodia and Thailand
Plus: the new president of Argentina has abolished the ministry of culture | and Notre-Dame is to reopen in December 2024
Plus: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts restitutes 44 antiquities | Jesse Darling wins the Turner Prize | and more art news
Plus: Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) | Dutch museum returns Scythian gold artefacts to Ukraine | and the rest of the week’s art news
Plus: Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko jailed for seven years for anti-war protest, Joe Tilson (1928–2023), and B.N. Goswamy (1933–2023)
Plus: director of Hungarian National Museum sacked, Odesa museum damaged by Russian missile strike, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: Robert Irwin (1928–2023), Italy appoints right-wing journalist as Venice Biennale director and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: The Cleveland Museum of Art is suing the Manhattan DA’s office and bomb threats have led to multiple evacuations of Versailles and the Louvre
Plus: France and German set up a joint fund to research colonial provenance and hoard of coins with links to the Glencoe massacre discovered in Scotland
Plus: Carnegie Museum of Natural History will no longer show humans remains and US tourist smashes Roman statues in the Israel Museum
Plus: Buddha sculpture stolen from Bakarat Gallery, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco sues its architect, and the rest of the week's top stories
Plus: curator in Florida fired over provenance concerns, Guy Wildenstein on trial again in Paris, and the rest of the week's top stories
Plus: Egon Schiele works seized from US museums, Moroccan heritage sites damaged in earthquake, and the rest of the week's top stories
Plus: Polish museum director dismissed by local government, Manchester Museum returns 174 items to Indigenous Australians, and the rest of the week's art news
Plus: British Museum appoints new acting deputy director amid scandal; Christie's cancels further sales from the collection of Heidi Horten, and the rest of the week’s art news
Plus: South-east Asian countries are demanding return of looted objects from Denver Art Museum, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: the gallerist Angela Flowers has died at the age of 90 and the Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director over an alleged scheme to sell forged Basquiats
Plus: Ukrainian government releases online database of artworks in the possession of Russian nationals, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: Russian missiles have damaged Odesa Cathedral and Joop Sanders (1921–2023)
Plus: two looted sculptures returned to Libya, the Dutch national photography museum to receive a new home, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Plus: a Pistoletto sculpture has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack and Simon Lee Gallery has been placed under administration
Plus: report outlines destruction of cultural property in Sudan and Michael Kauffmann (1931–2023)
Plus: French artist Claude Lévêque is charged with rape and the Hermitage Amsterdam is changing its name