Art news daily

Plus: Mario Merz Prize 2019 finalists announced | and Joan Mitchell Foundation announces 2018 grants

Plus: Julie Finch to direct Compton Verney Art Gallery | Leonor Antunes wins Zurich Art Prize 2019 | Anonymous Was a Woman 2018 grants awarded to 10 female artists

Plus: Robin Nicholson named director of Telfair Museums | Update on recovery of objects from National Museum of Brazil | and Tania Bruguera cancels appearance at Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Plus: DRC to seek restitution of objects in Africa Museum in Belgium | and Carol Rhodes (1959–2018)

Plus: ICA LA director Elsa Longhauser to step down | Tania Bruguera and other artists released in Cuba | and recommended reading

Plus: European Court of Human Rights rules that Russian government must pay compensation to Pussy Riot | Pieter Bruegel the Elder may have engraved earliest known Scottish landscape

Plus: Tania Bruguera detained in Cuba | Italian court rules that Getty museum must return ancient statue | Anna Coliva reinstated as director of Galleria Borghese | and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures wins Sotheby’s Prize 

Plus: Sotheby’s chief operating officer Adam Chinn to depart | and Andy Warhol Foundation arts writing grant recipients announced

Plus: Staff members at Whitney Museum demand action over vice chair’s ties to tear gas production | Raqs Media Collective to be artistic director of 2020 Yokohama Triennale | and Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announces two art education funding initiatives

Plus: Andrew Hall wins legal battle over fake Leon Golub paintings | Final audit of Documenta finds bigger budget deficit | Nicola Calderón joins Timothy Taylor Gallery New York | and recommended reading

Plus: Renoir painting stolen from Vienna’s Dorotheum auction house | Ivory Coast and Senegal request the return of artefacts from France | Head of Sotheby’s India takes ‘leave of absence’ following sexual harassment claims | and Nan Goldin awarded The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal

Plus: Daria Martin wins 2018 Film London Jarman Award | Archaeologists authenticate Stone Age rock paintings in Finland | and Adam Lerner to step down as director of MCA Denver

Plus: Banksy works confiscated from exhibition in Brussels | and French court settles dispute over Majorelle trademark

Plus: Irene McAra-McWilliam appointed director of Glasgow School of Art | and recommended reading

Plus: school in Brazilian rainforest is the world’s best new building | Victorian Society criticises high-rise development plan in East London | MAD Architects to design panoramic viewpoint in Rotterdam | Plus recommended reading

Plus: Spike Island wins the Freelands Award 2018 | and Francis Outred resigns as Christie’s head of post-war European art

Plus: Descendant of Jewish art dealers sues Dutch government | Leon and Debra Black donate $40m to MoMA | and Joanna Mytkowska wins Igor Zabel Award

Plus: Macron’s report recommends full restitution of African art in France | $1m grant for arts projects awarded to Coral Springs, Florida | and Ateneum names Marja Sakari as director

Plus: Easter Islanders to hold talks with British Museum | Gavin Turk arrested at climate change protest | National Trust has £30 million invested in fossil fuels | and recommended reading

Plus: Hockney sold for $90.3m at Christie’s sets new record for living artist | Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam granted bail | Jean Mohr (1925–2018) | and recommended reading

Plus: Kapwani Kiwanga wins 2018 Sobey Art Award | Annie Fletcher appointed director of IMMA | and Everson Museum of Art gets $4.8m fundraising campaign boost

Plus: Pace Gallery announces new ‘partnership’ with Christo | and Stephanie Cristello, Jeff Rhodes and Kathleen Rapp given new positions at Expo Chicago

Plus: Oskar Rabin (1928–2018) | Sandra Lagumina appointed non-executive director of Agence France-Muséums | and Souls Grown Deep Foundation places works at five institutions

Plus: Sondra Perry wins the 2018 Nam June Paik Award | Pérez Art Museum Miami to launch Latin American and Latinx Art Fund | Njideka Akunyili Crosby now represented by David Zwirner Gallery | and college museum exhibition closes after veterans groups complaints