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Helen Legg appointed artistic director of London’s Royal Academy of Arts – The Art Newspaper
Helen Legg has been appointed the artistic director of London's Royal Academy of Arts (RA). Legg, currently the director of...
US congress passes revamped Holocaust recovery bill that sidesteps many legal defences – The Art Newspaper
The US congress has approved legislation that will deny museums and other art owners many of the standard protections that...
Nearly 200 Venice Biennale participants sign letter demanding cancellation of Israeli pavilion – The Art Newspaper
Nearly 200 artists, curators and art workers involved in this year’s Venice Biennale (9 May–22 November) have signed a letter...
500-year-old Aztec ritual offering uncovered in Mexico City – The Art Newspaper
Greenstone sculptures from Guerrero, thousands of marine shells, copal spheres and snake-shaped pendants were part of a 500-year-old Aztec ritual...
Next edition of Getty’s PST Art initiative will focus on Los Angeles’s connections around the Pacific Rim – The Art Newspaper
The Getty Trust announced earlier this month that the fourth edition of its PST Art programme will focus on ties...
Dealers express concern over Singapore fair merger – The Art Newspaper
The uncertain future of two regional institutions dominated discussions during this year’s Singapore Art Week (SAW), which ran from 22...
Can Tefaf Maastricht keep up with the experience economy? – The Art Newspaper
A pair of Claude Monet series paintings from 1894; a 1st-century AD Egyptian granite vase commissioned by the Emperor Nero;...
Pedro Friedeberg, key figure in Mexican art renowned for hand-shaped chair, has died at age 90 – The Art Newspaper
The Mexico-based artist and designer Pedro Friedeberg, best known for his hand-shaped chair, Mano Silla (1962), died on 5 March...
Comment | Cow in MSCHF project survives, but should the project have happened at all? – The Art Newspaper
The art collective known as MSCHF is no stranger to provocation. The group has questioned the value of art itself,...
Art communities and heritage in Iran, moderate recovery in the art market, Sydney Biennale—podcast – The Art Newspaper
As the war in the Middle East continues to rage, Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s reporter on Iran...