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Schwitters's Merz Barn, Cumbria

Paris’s Musée Dapper to close in June

Art News Daily : 22 May

22 May 2017
Untitled, (1982) Jean-Michel Basquiat, courtesy Sotheby's, © 2017 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris/ARS

Basquiat painting sells for a record $110.5m

Art News Daily : 19 May

19 May 2017

Françoise Nyssen is the new French culture minister

Art News Daily : 18 May

18 May 2017

Labour manifesto promises ambitious arts agenda

Art News Daily : 17 May

17 May 2017
A picture taken on 13 May, 2017, shows mummies lying in catacombs following their discovery in the Touna el-Gabal district of the Minya province, in central Egypt. Photo: KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images

Necropolis discovered in Egypt

Art News Daily : 16 May

16 May 2017
Demonstrators march during a protest in Moscow on 14 May, 2017, against the city's controversial plan to knock down Soviet-era apartment blocks and redevelop the old neighbourhoods. ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images
Anne Imhof

Winners announced for 2017 Absolut Art Award

Art News Daily : 12 May

12 May 2017

Damien Hirst accused of cultural appropriation

Art News Daily : 11 May

11 May 2017

The Met files proposal to charge entry fees

Art News Daily : 9 May

9 May 2017
Helliniko Olympic Arena, (2016) Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse wins the Prix Pictet

Art News Daily : 5 May

5 May 2017
A.R. Penck © The Flying Studios International, Heinz-Günter Mebusch
Lubaina Himid, one of two nominees for the 2017 Turner Prize who would not previously been eligible for the award.

Bipartisan agreement set to increase NEA funding

Our daily round-up of news from the art world NEA receives $2m boost in funding | US cultural organisations have…

2 May 2017

Mayor of London withdraws support for Garden Bridge

Art News Daily : 28 April

28 Apr 2017

The Met considers levying entrance fee

Art News Daily : 27 April

27 Apr 2017

English cathedrals facing maintenance crisis

Art News Daily : 24 April

24 Apr 2017

World’s largest indigenous rock art site at risk

Art News Daily : 21 April

21 Apr 2017

New York museum launches citizenship initiative

Art News Daily : 20 April

20 Apr 2017