World Museum in Liverpool defends use of facial recognition technology
Plus: Santiago Calatrava fined €86,000 over Venice bridge | Betti-Sue Hertz appointed director of Wallach Art Gallery | and recommended reading
Stolen antiquities returned to India to coincide with independence day
Plus: Istanbul Biennial announces new venue in former warehouse | and recommended reading
Homi K. Bhabha to be honoured at ICA in London
Plus: US tariff on Chinese art and antiquities to take effect in September | and National Gallery reveals underdrawings beneath Leonardo painting
San Francisco school board votes to save George Washington mural
Plus: Central Park monument to women’s suffrage redesigned | Pace Gallery launches art tech platform | and Daniela Rivera wins DeCordova’s Rappaport Prize
Archaeologists unearth cache of jewels at Pompeii
Plus: Sadiq Khan backs calls for slavery museum in London | Artists request removal of work from Aichi Triennale | and UK government places export bar on £28m Monet
Panayiotis Vassilakis (Takis) (1925–2019)
Plus: Nancy Reddin Kienholz (1943-2019) | and recommended reading
Ai Weiwei sends researchers to document Hong Kong protests
Plus: Monique Barbier-Mueller (1929–2019) | Mead Art Museum receives anonymous gift of 170 contemporary works
Venice will reroute cruise ships away from city centre
Plus: Gordon Rintoul will step down as NMS director | and Jamaican minister calls for restitution of artefacts in British Museum collection
Europol sting recovers 18,000 stolen artefacts
Plus: Kamal Boullata (1942–2019) | Aichi Triennale artists sign statement calling for restoration of censorship exhibition | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures director resigns
Organisers close exhibition in Aichi Triennale, citing terrorist threats
Plus: Pérez Art Museum acquires 46 works of vernacular American art | and recommended reading
UK government places export bar on Turner’s ‘Dark Rigi’
Plus: Child ‘thrown’ from Tate Modern in critical but stable condition | Aspen Institute announces centre dedicated to Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer | and Don Suggs (1945–2019)
UK government proposes creating tax-free zones after leaving the EU
Plus: medieval bridge dismantled in Belgium despite protests | Baltimore Museum of Art pledges year of exhibitions dedicated to women artists | and 16th-century painting back on display at London’s National Gallery after seven-year conservation project
Painting at Apsley House reattributed to Titian’s workshop
Plus: art dealer Joseph Nahmad could face jail time after pleading guilty to assault charges | Whitney Museum promotes two curators | and recommended reading
Karsten Schubert (1961–2019)
Plus: British art dealer gets prison sentence for grand larceny and fraud | Portuguese authorities seize art from debt-ridden businessman | Europe's tallest artwork set to rise above Belgian motorway | and Wendell Dayton (1938–2019)
Fire brought under control at Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt
Plus: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts receives grant from Netherlands for new centre | Italian lawsuit over $800m estate threatens NYU collection | and recommended reading
Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923–2019)
Plus: Neil deGrasse Tyson keeps job at American Museum of Natural History after closure of sexual-misconduct investigation | Archaeologists discover temple belonging to sunken ancient city
Artists reverse decision to withdraw from Whitney Biennial
Plus: Paris heat wave threatens Notre Dame with collapse | Schiele drawing discovered in New York thrift store | Damian Ortega wins inaugural ICA Miami prize for sculpture | and recommended reading
Warren Kanders resigns as vice chair of Whitney board
Plus: Nicky Morgan named UK Culture Secretary | Paolo Giuerini reconfirmed as director of Naples museum of archaeology | and Baltimore Museum of Art to establish centre for Matisse studies
Renaissance shipwreck found in Baltic Sea
Plus: the Netherlands establishes endowment fund at MFA Boston | and Portland Museum of Art awarded $4.6m in lawsuit
UK government export bar on rare Renaissance casket expires
Plus: Worcester Art Museum receives $10m donation | and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain Bordeaux appoints new director
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
An everyday luxury – the artists finding beauty in banality