Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery honours Aretha Franklin
Plus: Christina Nielsen named director of art collections at the Huntington Library | MFA Boston receives $1 million grant from Japanese foundation | Museu de Arte de São Paulo promotes Tomás Toledo to chief curator | and recommended reading
Bloomberg Philanthropies names participants in $43m arts initiative
Plus: The List destroyed for second time | Art dealer Andrew Fabricant joins Gagosian | and Titus Kaphar awarded Rappaport Prize
Martin Puryear to represent US at next Venice Biennale
Plus: Chilean minister quits over past criticism of human-rights museum | Petition filed for case of Norton Simon Museum’s Cranachs to be reheard | Activists and artists attack Cuban government decree | and Baltimore Museum of Art appoints three curators
ICA in London to honour Chelsea Manning
Plus: Cheryl Young to retire from MacDowell Colony | and Cleveland Museum of Art launches diversity strategy
National Endowment for the Humanities awards $43.1 million in grants
Plus: Colin Amery (1944–2018) | Iranian artist banned from leaving the country | Truze Lodder appointed temporary chair of Stedelijk Museum | Bloomberg Philanthropies announces $43 million in grants | and recommended reading
British Museum facilitates return of looted Iraqi antiquities
Plus: Prosecutors drop case against former Documenta officials | Mika Rottenberg wins Kurt Schwitters Prize 2019 | Norton Museum director to retire
RIBA appoints new president amid controversy
Plus: NADA’s New York fair 2019 cancelled | Liverpool Biennial restores destroyed work documenting refugee crisis | and Pussy Riot member barred from leaving Russia
Easter Islanders call for British Museum to return Moai statue
Plus: Nam June Paik Prize 2018 shortlist announced | CEO of MCH Group resigns | and Toby Kamps joins White Cube
MoMA employees stage protest ahead of union negotiations
Plus: Sotheby’s sales increase but net profit falls | Bangladeshi police arrest renowned photographer Shahidul Alam | Gagosian Hong Kong appoints Han-I Wang as Senior Director | and recommended reading
Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei’s studio
Plus: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art rediscovers ten Picasso works in its collection | Russia appoints Steven Seagal as a cultural envoy | and recommended reading
Artists remove works from Design Museum in protest over arms-trade event
Plus: New Museum receives $660,000 grant to develop art technology | Sotheby’s names Simon Shaw vice chairman of global fine art division | and recommended reading
Crown jewels stolen from cathedral in Sweden
Plus: Joan Jonas show at Haus der Kunst cancelled due to financial difficulties | American Folk Art Museum names Jason T. Busch as executive director | and Antonio Dias (1944–2018)
MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach to head LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art
Plus: Jewish Museum receives $10m and more than 70 artworks from the Barnett Newman Foundation | and Getty Foundation awards grants to improve conservation skills
US appeals court upholds ruling on Nazi-looted Cranachs
Plus: Peter Ainsworth appointed as chair of the Heritage Alliance | Florida’s Norton Museum gets $16m for new wing | and foundations of Roman library uncovered in Cologne
Legal battle continues over Picasso painting at the Met
Plus: AIDS activists stage protest at the Whitney | Historic England celebrates local heroes in new exhibition | VR used to recreate artists’ studios at the State Tretyakov | and recommended reading
Charles Saumarez Smith to leave the RA and join Blain|Southern
Plus: Tuesday Smillie awarded Rose Art Museum residency | Art Gallery of South Australia appoints Rhana Devenport as director | and recommended reading
Jeu de Paume director Marta Gili to step down
Plus: UK high court rules that Giotto painting left Italy unlawfully | and Powerhouse Museum director resigns amid fundraising row
Design Museum criticised for hosting event linked to arms industry
Plus: BRIC appoints Kristina Newman-Scott as president | and Warhol Foundation urges University of Kansas to reinstate artwork
US judge orders return of Persian bas-relief to Iran
Plus: Cleveland Museum of Art establishes conservation centre for Chinese paintings | and record six-month sales period for Christie’s
Exhibitors criticise management of Bahrain’s flagship art fair
Plus: Nan Goldin continues opioid protests | New York dealer finds ‘lost de Koonings’ in storage locker | and recommended reading
Walker Art Center forms Indigenous Public Art Selection Committee
Plus: Anne Olivier Bell (1916–2018) and recommended reading
Tate St Ives among finalists for Stirling Prize 2018
Plus: Regiment museum in Stirling awarded £1m lottery funding | Ancient skulls stolen from church display in Kent | and winners of Write on Art prize announced
Janet Archer resigns as chief executive of Creative Scotland
Plus: Robert Leckie is appointed director of Spike Island | Oxford’s Story Museum receives £1m funding boost | and Inaugural European ArtEast Foundation grants announced
Indian government forms expert panel to address Taj Mahal pollution
Plus: Eric Shiner joins White Cube in New York | Tel Aviv gallery criticised for showing Arab artists without permission | Affordable housing scheme for artists approved in East London | and New York public libraries launch free museum access scheme
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