Eight artists withdraw from Whitney Biennial
Plus: Marisa Merz (1926–2019) | César Pelli (1927–2019) | Palais de Tokyo names Emma Lavigne as president | and recommended reading
France to lend Benin €20 million for museum to house looted artefacts
Plus: Kurdish artist Zehra Doğan detained in Berlin following protest-performance | Charles Dickens Museum buys back portrait lost for 133 years | and recommended reading
Yorkshire Sculpture Park building makes shortlist for RIBA Stirling Prize 2019
Plus: Notre-Dame reconstruction bill passes into law | Tate declares climate emergency, promising broad reevaluation of practices | and recommended reading
Sackler name removed from Louvre galleries after protests
Plus: Two Egyptian pyramids reopen to public | Benin to open museum to house looted artefacts
British Museum trustee Ahdaf Soueif resigns over BP sponsorship, repatriation and workers’ rights
Plus: Study suggests lard was used in Stonehenge construction | and Frieder Burda (1936–2019)
Mayor of London rejects Foster + Partners’ ‘Tulip’ skyscraper
Plus: Co-chairmen of Paris Biennale vetting committee resign | Tate acquires archive of surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun | and recommended reading
Beijing artists evicted from two arts districts
Plus: Judge rules in favour of Agnes Martin authentication committee members | and recommended reading
Art dealer Subhash Kapoor charged with running extensive smuggling ring
Plus: David Zwirner to open Paris space, citing Brexit concerns | Himali Singh Soin wins 2019 Frieze Artist Award | New York court rules that Nazi-looted Schiele works will remain with victim’s heirs | and Eberhard Havekost (1967–2019)
Anne Ellegood appointed director of ICA, Los Angeles
Plus: Egypt to sue over Christie’s Tutankhamun bust sale | Open letter opposes destruction of George Washington mural in San Francisco high school | Philip Freelon (1952–2019)
Joan Weinstein becomes director of Getty Foundation
Plus: Pace Gallery closes Beijing outpost | Tania Bruguera to launch investigative journalism initiative in Cuba | and recommended reading
Guggenheim Museum added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Plus: Douglas Crimp, 1944–2019 | British Museum defends relationship with BP | and recommended reading
Leon Kossoff (1926–2019)
Plus: Lobby group Europa Nostra criticises UNESCO’s support of cruise ships in Venice | and recommended reading
St Fagans in Wales wins Art Fund Museum of the Year
Plus: France returns group of 445 ancient stolen artefacts to Pakistan | and Krefeld rejects artist’s heirs claim to Mondrian paintings
David Koloane (1938–2019)
Plus: Nan Goldin leads protest against Sackler wing at Louvre | Bartomeu Marí named executive director of Museo de Arte de Lima | and Heidi Zuckerman to step down as director of Aspen Art Museum
Italian culture minister plans to appoint single director to run Uffizi and Accademia
Plus: Christian Rattemeyer named director of SculptureCenter | Germany to return Nazi-looted Dutch painting to Uffizi | and Guggenheim workers vote to unionise
St Peter’s Seminary will not be saved by the Scottish government
Plus: Wellcome Collection names Melanie Keen as new director | Designs for extension to New Museum revealed | Aliph fund announces $6.3m for war-zone heritage projects | and recommended reading
Kate Fowle appointed as director of MoMA PS1
Plus: Goodman Gallery names Jo Stella-Sawicka as London director | and Paris Photo to launch fair in New York in 2020
‘Lost Caravaggio’ sold privately ahead of scheduled auction
Plus: Sotheby’s must face Rybolovlev lawsuit | Arrest warrant issued for dealer Angela Gulbenkian
Bruce Museum in Connecticut awarded $15m toward expansion
Plus: Medieval Scottish town receives £1.2m regeneration fund | and collector Agnes Gund signs letter supporting wealth tax
Peter Selz (1919–2019)
Plus: Berlin museums appeal to US Supreme Court over Guelph Treasure | Gagosian appoints Artsy co-founder as adviser | and recommended reading
American Association of Museum Directors calls for an end to unpaid internships
Plus: Survey finds front-of-house staff in UK museums feel undervalued | Poster museum opens in New York | Illinois community college invests millions in expanded museum | and recommended reading
Italy pledges to loan 2,000 artefacts to National Museum in Brazil
Plus: Whitney Museum senior curator Donna De Salvo resigns | Olafur Eliasson to illuminate Arc de Triomphe | and results of new survey weigh up salaries in visual arts
Hannah Rothschild steps down as National Gallery’s chair of trustees
Plus: Putin grants Russian citizenship to grandson of collector whose property was allegedly seized by Lenin | Van Gogh's gun sells for €162,000 | and Union formed by security workers at Frye Art Museum
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