Art news daily

Plus: Five men arrested for theft of Renoir and Rubens paintings worth £23m | Chinese vase found in a shoebox sells for £14m | and three candidates confirmed in battle for RIBA presidency

Plus: Musée Rodin considers outpost in China | Italian judge rules that Getty bronze belongs in Italy | Shane Campbell Gallery sues Frieze art fair | and Miriam Escofet wins the 2018 BP portrait award

Plus: Kasmin to open new space in New York | Lyndel King to leave Weisman Art Museum after 40 years | Frieze offers partial refund to exhibitors affected by excessive heat of New York fair | and Sarah Needham appointed director of Hill Art Foundation

Plus: Angola recovers artefacts looted during civil war | Australian supermarket blocks Spencer Tunick project | Monet exhibition cancelled in Bordeaux | and Hertfordshire County Council panel endorses plan to sell majority of art collection

Plus: Dia Art Foundation to expand in New York | Report finds nearly 50 Confederate monuments removed since 2015 | Omar Kholeif leaves MCA Chicago | and Documenta 14 artists voice support for Greek mayor injured by far-right mob

Plus: Southbank Centre receives certificate of immunity from listing | Artists organise major political billboard project | and Irving Sandler (1925–2018)

Plus: Dallas Museum of Art acquires Derick Baegert panel | Robert J. Fisher appointed chair of SFMoMA board | and winners of inaugural Pax Art Award announced

Plus: Federal investigators close probe on Yves Bouvier | Plans to relocate Escher Museum in doubt | and Thomas Dane to represent Anthea Hamilton

Plus: Opinions divided on Frick project at public hearing | Emperor Constantine’s finger identified in the Louvre | Shortlist announced for Sobey Art Award | and Leon Black named chairman of MoMA board of trustees

Plus: Painting of Ivan the Terrible vandalised in Moscow | Original site scrapped for Jeff Koons’s Paris memorial | Berkshire and La Salle University museums face sanctions over deaccessioning | and Swiss pavilion awarded Golden Lion at Venice Architecture Biennale

Plus: Robert Indiana’s house to become a museum | Elizabeth Duggal appointed deputy director at the Guggenheim | and recommended reading

Plus: Painting in Italian museum reattributed to Andrea Mantegna | Berkshire Museum’s deaccession auctions fall short of target | Art Gallery of Ontario retitles painting by Emily Carr | and Gerhard Richter donates works to raise funds for housing charity

Plus: Amanda Levete appointed as architect of £42m Paisley Museum project | Swedish court blocks plans for Chipperfield-designed Nobel Centre | Herb Alpert award winners announced

Plus: Getty Foundation awards grants to prints and drawings departments | Interview magazine folds | Rothko Chapel in Houston vandalised

Plus: Berlin State Museums return nine artefacts to Alaska | and recommended reading

Plus: Luke Willis Thompson wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize | Architects announced for the V&A Research and Collection Centre announced | German culture minister has plans for 23 per cent hike in arts funding | and recommended reading

Plus: Richard Gray (1928–2018) | Forensic Architecture and Borderland win European Cultural Foundation prize | and report finds Western Australia’s state art collection at risk of loss and damage

Plus: Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) | and Germany announces code of conduct on handling colonial-era objects

Plus: Italian police seize $1 million of stolen artefacts | Sam Nzima (1934–2018) | Design Museum named European Museum of the Year | Corcoran Gallery distributes former collection | and LGBTQ supporters attacked in Beijing art district

Plus: Rockefeller collection breaks auction record | MoMA appoints Rob Giampietro as Director of Design | and recommended reading

Plus: Anonymous donor steps in to pay penalty incurred by National Gallery of Canada | Yvette Coppersmith wins Australia’s Archibald Prize for portraiture | Leslie Brothers appointed director of Ulrich Museum of Art | and recommended reading