Suspected poisoning of Pussy Riot member
Plus: Dubai private equity firm bows out of Art Dhabi sponsorship | Nazi-stolen Renoir painting returned to Jewish collector’s descendant | and Earliest known drawing found in South African cave
Souls Grown Deep Foundation creates internship scheme for students of colour
Plus: New York appeals court rejects model’s heirs claims to Matisse portrait | Beazley Designs of the Year 2018 shortlist announced | and Shortlist for RIBA 2018 International Prize announced
Four Nazi-looted works identified by Gurlitt Provenance Research project
Plus: Eduoard Kopp appointed chief curator of Menil Drawing Institute | Women arrested for damaging artefacts in Athens | LarbitsSisters win inaugural prize for interactive and new media art | and archaeologists discover Roman coins beneath disused theatre in Como
Tristram Hunt floats idea of hotel tax for overseas tourists to fund UK museums
Plus: Yasufumi Nakamori appointed Tate’s senior curator of international art | Steven Parissien steps down as director of Compton Verney Art Gallery | and Nancy Blomberg (1946–2018)
Moritz Wesseler appointed as director of Fridericianum in Kassel
Plus: Dominic Willsdon named new director of ICA at VCU | Glenstone Museum sued by contractors for $24m | New York gallery cancels exhibition featuring alleged neo-Nazi | and recommended reading
Dealer Mary Boone pleads guilty to two counts of tax fraud
Plus: CCA in Glasgow’s indefinite closure puts it in financial peril | Mary Jane Long (1939–2018) | Wizard of Oz ruby slippers found 13 years after theft | and Ben Hartley named executive director of New York’s National Arts Club
Madani Younis announced as new creative director of Southbank Centre
Plus: Frieze Art Fair to introduce new pricing system at Los Angeles debut | Kokoschka returned to Jewish heirs by Sweden’s Moderna Museet | and Denise Scott Brown receives Soane Medal 2018
Bonhams sold to private equity fund Epiris
Plus: Open letter criticises gender disparity at Rencontres d’Arles | and performance artist charged with sexual exhibitionism after posing nude at Lourdes
Devastating fire destroys the National Museum of Brazil
Plus: Art Basel introduces booth pricing-system to benefit young galleries | Ullens Center to open second museum | UK cultural figures sign letter demanding release of Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam | Adila Laïdi-Hanieh appointed director of Palestinian Museum | and Joanna Kamm named director of Liste Art Fair
Paul Taylor (1930–2018)
Plus: Museum in Saskatchewan, Canada receives $25million endowment | Non-profit gallery evicted in Jerusalem | ICA Los Angeles announces new board members | and recommended reading
Guggenheim receives $750,000 grant for 1960s and ’70s art
Plus: Renzo Piano offers to design new bridge in Genoa | Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize shortlist announced | and MacDowell Colony fellows named
Major Dutch museums drop Shell sponsorship
Plus: German biennale dismantles Erdoğan statue following protests | National Portrait Gallery revises visitor figures after error | Yale’s Peabody Museum gifted $160 million | and Nancy Chunn wins Artists' Legacy Foundation 2018 Artist Award
German Lost Art Foundation removes 63 Schiele works from database
Plus: Georgia returns 17th-century painting to Germany | and Berlin’s Arratia Beer Gallery to Close
Spain passes decree to remove Franco’s remains from Valley of the Fallen
Plus: Krishna Reddy (1925–2018) | and recommended reading
Italian government revokes export licence for Frick acquisition
Plus: Oslo blocks artist’s plans for ‘death house’ near Munch’s studio | Lauren Halsey wins the Hammer Museum’s $100,000 Mohn Award | and Sotheby’s Japan announces new Chairman and Managing Director
Chase F. Robinson named director of Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries
Plus: National Heritage List for England reaches 400,000 entries | Tuscaloosa Museum of Art in Alabama to close | and Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace appoints new director
Confederate statue toppled at the University of North Carolina
Plus: ICA Philadelphia receives $1m endowment | and Mackenzie Art Gallery appoints its first director of programs
MoMA agrees new employment contract with union workers
Plus: Leipzig gallery drops painter over anti-immigrant Facebook posts | Charles Blackman (1928–2018) | and recommended reading
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
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