Bavarian culture minister promises more transparency from the state’s paintings collection and the Guggenheim in New York announces redundancies
Plus: Netherlands returns 113 Benin bronzes to Nigeria and British Museum chooses Lina Ghotmeh to redesign ancient sculpture galleries
Plus: Qatar to get permanent national pavilion at Venice Biennale | Walter Robinson (1950–2025) | Brent Sikkema’s husband charged with hiring his killer
Plus Brooklyn Museum to lay off tenth of its workforce | Crypto entrepreneur sues David Geffen for return of Giacometti sculpture | Christie’s withdraws El Greco from sale after Romanian objections
Plus: Native American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has died at the age of 85 | Dutch police name suspects in theft of Romanian gold
Plus: Artnet founder to retire after three decades | painter Jo Baer has died at the age of 95 | and insurers refuse pay out to owners of fake Basquiats
The buildings are reaching 'a worrying level of obsolescence’, writes Laurence des Cars to the French minister of culture, Rachida Dati
Plus: Des Moines Art Center settles with land artist Mary Miss | Martina Droth is the new director of the Yale Center for British Art | Bonnie Brennan is the new CEO of Christies
Plus: Germany approves new binding arbitration tribunal for Nazi-looted art, and Texas police seize Sally Mann photos from Forth Worth exhibition
Plus: France signs lucrative culture deals with Saudi Arabia and Sotheby’s cuts more than 100 staff around the world
Plus: Jasleen Kaur wins this year’s Turner Prize; and Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plans for new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building
Plus: Rotterdam becomes first Dutch city to return colonial objects to Indonesia; and City of London votes to close Smithfield and Billingsgate markets for good
Plus: UNESCO places 34 sites in Lebanon under ‘enhanced protection’; Berlin to cut its arts budget by €130m; and an armed heist at the Musée Cognacq-Jay
Plus: Italian police uncover a pan-European network of art forgers; and the British Museum receives a gift of Chinese ceramics worth £1bn
Plus: Art Basel reported to be in talks to run Abu Dhabi Art; Ashmolean acquires rare work by Fra Angelico; and Daniel Spoerri (1930–2024)
Plus: the UK budget announced, with mixed news for the arts; and archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city in Mexico
Plus: the Whitney Museum of American Art is making admission free for under-26s after a donation from Julie Mehretu; and Gary Indiana has died at the age of 74
Plus: National Gallery in London bans liquids, Lisa Schiff pleads guilty to defrauding clients, and Darren Walker is the next president of the NGA in Washington, D.C.
Plus: Lebanon’s culture minister calls for the country’s heritage sites to be protected from Israeli bombing; and a shield looted by the British in 1868 will be returned to Ethiopia
Plus: climate activists acquitted in Manchester, Hammer Museum appoints Zoë Ryan as its new director, and researchers find 7th-century throne room in Peru
Plus: Unesco describes 'unprecedented’ threat to Sudan’s cultural heritage, and Volodymyr Zelensky calls for ‘the decolonisation of Ukrainian art’
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
