Art news daily

Plus: Director of Brazil’s National Museum pleads for funding | Ancient Egyptian burial ground discovered near pyramids of Giza | and Canadian Artists in Venice Endowment receives $1m from the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation of Toronto

Plus: Vanja Mallory appointed director and chief curator of the Syracuse University Art Galleries | Hidden Cupid revealed in Vermeer painting | and recommended reading

Plus: Trevor Paglen’s satellite sculpture is lost in space | Facebook removes groups selling looted Syrian artefacts | Cattelan’s gold toilet goes to Blenheim

Plus: Pissarro painting looted by Nazis to remain in Spain | Berlinische Galerie closes due to structural problems | and Klaus Bussmann (1941–2019)

Plus: American art museum condemns use of painting by AfD | Asia Society announces new triennial | Berlin museum returns remains to New Zealand | and recommended reading

Plus: Open letter calls for MoMA and Larry Fink to divest from private prison companies | Protests at Whitney turn to Puerto Rico | Kraków City Council rejects museum merge | and Nancy Fouts (1945–2019)

Plus: UK Museum of the Year shortlist announced | Artists criticise Tate for resuming ties with Anthony d’Offay | Pretend heiress and art-philanthropist convicted of theft by New York court | and recommended reading

Plus: German court fines man for stealing discarded Gerhard Richter sketches | Counterfeit Rodin dealers sentenced after 18-year legal battle | and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to be completed around 2022

Plus: Henry Wollman Bloch (1922–2019) | Gagosian San Francisco appoints Kelly Huang as co-director | Authorities in Ukraine recover Signac work worth €1.5m

Plus: David Hockney and Luchita Hurtado named in Time 100 | Palestinian Museum and British Library announce first collaboration | and recommended reading

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