Art news daily

Plus: Arts Council England reports £390m growth in culture sector | and Gagosian art advisory firm launched in New York

Plus: American Museum of Natural History cancels Bolsonaro event

Art news daily : 15 April

Plus: Cuban artist arrested before Havana Biennial | Petition launched to remove mural in French Parliament | and recommended reading

Plus: New York will demolish Elizabeth Street Garden | Court case over paintings once attributed to Frans Hals closes | and Mike Kelley Foundation gives $400,000 to arts organisations in LA

Plus: EU introduces new regulations for cultural imports | Tokyo Contemporary Art Award winners announced | and recommended reading

Plus: Los Angeles approves $650m LACMA extension plan | Roberta Smith receives Rabkin Foundation’s first lifetime achievement award | and Germany’s Five Continents Museum restitutes indigenous remains to Australia

Plus: Carlos Urroz named director of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary | and Malevich portrait found to be the work of his student

Plus: Open letter calls for Whitney to remove Warren B. Kanders as board vice chair | and inaugural recipients of Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship announced

Plus: Antonio Asis (1932–2019) | Brooklyn Museum launches $25,000 prize for emerging artists | Fire at Brazil’s National Museum caused by air conditioning unit | and recommended reading

Plus: Saatchi Gallery now registered as charitable organisation | Antique jewels stolen from Rome’s Etruscan Museum have been recovered | Berlin’s Jewish Museum will no longer accept Sackler donations | and Nazi-looted 17th-century Dutch painting returned to Jewish heirs

Plus: Art Gallery of Ontario deaccessions works by A.Y. Jackson | Airbnb partners with Paris’s Louvre for night at museum | and T. Barton Thurber appointed director of Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Plus: Mark Weiss reaches $4.2m settlement with Sotheby’s over disputed Frans Hals; and Art Institute of Chicago postpones exhibition of Mimbres pottery

Plus: Kochi-Muziris Biennale drops investigation into alleged sexual misconduct of co-founder | New report reveals art institutions have half the exhibition budget of science museums | and Frick announces four new trustees

Plus: Norway’s Kon-Tiki museum to return Easter Island artefacts | Latinx activists issue open letter to El Museo del Barrio | Erdogan announces plan to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque | Getty Trust announces $5m endowment grant to Courtauld Institute of Art | and recommended reading

Plus: Contractor accuse Kochi-Muziris Biennale of non-payment | and Algeria defers participation in Venice Biennale

Plus: Sackler-owned Purdue Pharma reaches $270m settlement with Oklahoma | German panel calls for return of Hitler’s Bellotto paintings to Jewish heirs | MoMA PS1 settles with curator alleging gender, pregnancy and caregiver discrimination | Tate Modern overtakes British Museum as UK’s top attraction | and Dallas Museum of Art receives major gifts for Latin American art

Plus: Italy agrees to repatriate 796 cultural artefacts to China | and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council announces arts centre on Governors Island

Plus: EU will allow UK art shippers into Europe without permits until end of year | and Decolonize This Place leads second protest at Whitney Museum

Plus: Van Gogh at Wadsworth Atheneum authenticated | US files suit to return Nazi-looted painting to Ukraine | Artory acquires and makes public Auction Club database | and recommended reading

Plus: Harvard University sued for ownership of slave daguerrotypes | and Monika Szewczyk to direct De Appel Center in Amsterdam

US Supreme Court will not hear case over National Gallery’s Matisse | Rose Hilton (1931–2019) | Kehinde Wiley announces new artist residency in Senegal

$2.8m of Met admissions revenues to go to 175 New York arts organisations | Trump’s 2020 budget proposal plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts | Lawsuit seeks return of Chagall sold to three London dealers by Ezra Chowaiki

Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) | Signac painting identified as seventh Nazi-looted work in Gurlitt collection | and recommended reading