Montreal Museum of Fine Arts dismisses director over ‘toxic’ environmentArtReviewartreview.com14 July 2020Director and chief curator Nathalie Bondil has departed MMFA, where she has worked for more than two decades
Gilbert & George quit Royal Academy over exhibition snubArtReview13 July 2020The art eccentrics have left the centuries-old London institution after exhibition plans were turned down
Hagia Sophia’s museum status revoked; reverts to mosqueArtReviewartreview.com13 July 2020The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was turned into a museum by the Turkish republic’s founding father Kemal Atatürk to mark the country's secularisation
Philippine lawmakers deny licence to broadcaster critical of DuterteArtReviewartreview.com10 July 2020Activists say that blocking ABS-CBN Corp is part of the president’s vendetta against the broadcaster
James Murdoch to invest in struggling Art Basel parent companyArtReviewartreview.com10 July 2020Murdoch’s media fund Lupa Systems will become the anchor shareholder in MCH Group, holding at least a third of shares
Melania Trump statue set on fire in SloveniaArtReviewartreview.com09 July 2020The artist who commissioned the sculpture wants to interview the perpetrators
LACMA returns Buddhist paintings looted during Korean WarArtReviewartreview.com09 July 2020The ink paintings on silk – narrating the passage of the afterlife – are thought to have been stolen by American soldiers from Buddhist temples
