Brush and Quill Veteran Art News https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Leader of the Art Gallery of Ontario will step down after a decade at the helm Veteran Artists News: Interviews, Features & Creative Stories Paris prosecutors seek trial for Giuliano Ruffini over allegedly forged Old Master paintings Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch to retire ‘It was a calling’: 25 years after the 11 September attacks, Joel Meyerowitz reflects on his photos of Ground Zero The Big Review: Frida, The Making of an Icon ★★★½ Two Renoir paintings worth €9m stolen from Renoir Museum in France Hungary’s new government scraps National Gallery plans England’s Pitt Rivers Museum announces its largest repatriation of human remains A Churchill painting that mysteriously fell into the hands of a Nazi collaborator is on show in London Greece rejects Parthenon marbles loan request from Frankfurt due to British Museum involvement, reports say Can triennials reduce their environmental impact? St Louis’s Counterpublic hopes to be a model Home Leading Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina tapped to organise next edition of Guatemala’s Bienal de Arte Paiz From Dante’s Hell to Zelda: rare fantasy map collection to go on view in Zurich Amid volatile Korean economy, galleries at Frieze Seoul and Kiaf opt for cautious pricing and fresh faces Police and firefighters break into gallery after sculpture is mistaken for a person in distress Houston exhibition explores memory and mythmaking in the American landscape Argentina court orders return of Nazi-looted Old Master portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir Come to the British Library’s Agatha Christie show—if you dare Bank opens museum in Spanish city of Santander to display its 1,000-strong art collection A big B’Day gift: Beyoncé gives $2m to the Studio Museum in Harlem Geles Cabrera, the pioneering Mexican sculptor, has died, aged 100 Toledo Museum of Art partners with Ethiopian Heritage Authority to find solutions for ‘objects in limbo’ House that featured second-oldest astronomical observatory in the Americas reopens after $1m conservation project ‘Attribution decay’ complicates the picture of AI-generated images, scientists find Iran’s heritage experts race to repair damaged sites as negotiations stall Four artists explore AI’s effect on culture as part of Serpentine’s new art and technology fellowship Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego faces financial and leadership crisis The art world’s billionaire problem is getting worse ‘Death is already woven into our everyday lives’: Sook Jin Jo Many roads to modern art: Frieze Seoul spotlights overlooked artists In Korea and Japan, art breaches an often troubled shared history New documentary chronicles the late Brazilian artist Amélia Toledo’s boundary-pushing work Metropolitan Museum and designer John Galliano cancel planned Costume Institute exhibition amid backlash UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham reverses position on returning Parthenon Marbles to Greece Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos donates 51 contemporary works to four museums in Greece and Scotland Online platform connects hundreds of emerging Iranian artists with collectors abroad Alleged antiquities smuggler’s children convicted of money laundering in Germany London Science Museum’s sponsorship deal with BP ends after almost 25 years Bruce Guatemala museum that suddenly shuttered after court-ordered raid to reopen From the flower field to the infinity room: a story of Yayoi Kusama’s journey to becoming a superstar artist Neolithic sculpture of a man riding a leopard discovered in Turkey Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen caught up in alleged bribery scandal as civil servants dismissed Remembering Sliman Mansour, a defining figure of Palestinian art Curveball at the Art Gallery of Ontario as Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dylan Cease showcases painting skills Chief executive of Sydney’s anticipated Parramatta Powerhouse museum steps down two months before grand opening Founders of alternative art fair Basel Social Club to launch new event in Tokyo Museum acquisitions round-up: an unsettling French mask and a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I