Ben Uri Gallery announces plans to reinvent itself and sell part of its collection
Plus: Bill Arning resigns as director of Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | and Institut du Monde Arabe receives gift of 1,300 works
Harold Stevenson (1929-2018)
Plus: The National Museum in Damascus has reopened after six years | David Kordansky announces plans to expand his LA gallery | 2018 MAXXI Bulgari Prize awarded to Diego Marcon
Man arrested after trying to steal the Magna Carta
Plus: Mary Corse artwork damaged by fire at Dia:Beacon | Hito Steyerl wins 2019 Käthe Kollwitz Prize | and recommended reading
William Morris’s country home to receive £4.3m lottery grant
Plus: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation criticised after performance cancellation | and Studio Voltaire in London announces £2.3m capital project
Ancient shipwreck discovered intact at bottom of Black Sea
Plus: Norman Foster withdraws from Saudi tech-city project | Museum of the Bible's Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are forgeries | Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev wins Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence
Major collection of contemporary art donated to the Albertina
Plus: Jac Leirner wins the Wolfgang Hahn Prize | and Harold Gregor (1929–2018)
Nigeria presents plans for new Benin Royal Museum
Plus: Co-founder of Kochi-Muziris Biennale resigns | Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha reveals plans to expand | Brooklyn’s Signal gallery to close | and recommended reading
The Met and the Brooklyn Museum turn down Saudi funds for upcoming projects
Plus: Glasgow’s Winter Gardens will shut indefinitely for repairs at the end of the year | Simone Leigh wins Hugo Boss Prize | Diedrick Brackens wins $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Prize | Niels van Tomme leaves de Appel Museum for Argos Centre for Art and Media | and recommended reading
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara names new director
Plus: Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens appoints Adam Levine as director and CEO | Banksy video claims artwork was intended to shred entirely | Autry Museum of the American West receives grant from Native tribe | and Jacques Monory (1924–2018)
Luke Syson appointed director of Fitzwilliam Museum
Plus: Alice Mann wins Taylor Wessing prize 2018 | Franck Riester appointed as French culture minister | and Mel Ramos (1935–2018)
Rijksmuseum announces major public restoration of Rembrandt’s Night Watch
Plus: Filmmaker Clément Cogitore receives Marcel Duchamp Prize | and Frontier Art Prize awarded to Tavares Strachan
Southbank Centre withdraws controversial plan for Festival Hall rooftop bar
Plus: Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018) | Prizes go to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Postcommodity at Carnegie International 2018 | and recommended reading
Storage depot fire damages Deutsches Museum collection
Plus: Location confirmed for Jeff Koons’ Bouquet of Tulips in Paris | and sale of shredded Banksy work confirmed
Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg Headquarters wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2018
Plus: Open letter criticises suspension of Catherine de Zegher | Persian relic is taken to Tehran museum by Iranian President Rouhani | and CEO and Executive Director of Peabody Essex Museum retires after 25-year tenure | National Gallery receives £4 million to refurbish Room 32
Richard Meier steps down from firm after sexual harrassment allegations
Plus: For Freedoms announces artists taking part in midterm elections project | Art Dubai appoints Chloe Vaisou as international director | Newark Museum appoints Linda Harrison as director | and Maria Seferian elected chair of the board at MOCA Los Angeles
UK government issues Museums Action Plan 2018
Plus: Controversy over billboard advertising on Sydney Opera House | Titian painting damaged after falling in Spanish monastery | and activists stage protest at American Museum of Natural History
Banksy work shreds itself after selling at Sotheby’s auction
Plus: Jenny Saville’s self-portrait sets new auction record for a living woman artist | V&A director Tristram Hunt defends pricing of exhibition tickets | and recommended reading |
Guggenheim to return Kirchner painting to heirs of Alfred Flechtheim
Plus: Theaster Gates’s Rebuild Foundation receives $300,000 from JPMorgan Chase | MacArthur Foundation awards 2018 ‘Genius’ grants | José Esparza Chong Cuy appointed executive director and chief curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture | Vera List Center names Chimurenga winner of 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice | and recommended reading
V&A announces plans for £13.5m redevelopment of Museum of Childhood
Plus: French court upholds ruling ordering return of Pissarro painting to Jewish heirs | Shirin Aliabadi (1973–2018) | Controversy over planned sale of Kerry James Marshall mural in Chicago | and artists demonstrate against police handling of activist death in Greece
Dmitry Rybolovlev sues Sotheby’s for $380m
Plus: Hadeel Ibrahim elected chair of the ICA in London | Ringling Museum renames its Center for Asian Art after donation | and Jewish peers criticise plans for new Holocaust memorial in London
Valerie Hillings to direct North Carolina Museum of Art
Plus: Collector to withdraw 700-work loan over Mapplethorpe controversy | Damien Hirst restructures business | Phyllis Kind (1933–2018) | and Rachel Adams joins Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts
Bronx Museum of the Arts to open new space in downtown New York
Plus: Dealer Ezra Chowaiki sentenced to 18 months for $16m fraud | Mattress Factory director on temporary leave after alleged mishandling of sexual harassment claims | Holly Shen to join San Jose Museum of Art as deputy director
Nicholas Grimshaw awarded Royal Gold Medal for architecture
Plus: Deutsche Bank’s Palais Populaire opens in Berlin | Helena Almeida (1934–2018) | Leslie-Lohman Museum to receive $1m bequest | and recommended reading
Chapel of the Holy Shroud reopens in Turin
Plus: Stained glass window by David Hockney unveiled at Westminster Abbey | and Rema Hort Mann Foundation announces grant recipients
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