Tate St Ives named Art Fund Museum of the Year
Plus: Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts will remain closed over summer | National Gallery buys Artemisia Gentileschi self-portrait | and Met museum announces record visitor figures
Jean-Marc Bustamante to leave École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
Plus: UK and France sign memorandum of understanding over Bayeux Tapestry | Otto Naumann to join Sotheby’s | Art Institute of Colorado to close | and Alireza Taghaboni wins RA’s inaugural Dorfman Award
German government steps in to buy Giambologna sculpture
Plus: LACMA pushes to meet $600m fundraising target
Cézanne family and Bern museum reach agreement over Gurlitt painting
Plus: Report recommends removing statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond | and Myrna Ayad steps down as director of Art Dubai
Philadelphia History Museum to close indefinitely
Plus: TEFAF brings management of its New York fairs in-house | RIBA sends ‘cease and desist’ letter to presidential candidate | Christy MacLear leaves Sotheby’s Advisory Art Agency, Partners | and Art for Justice Fund gives out nearly $10m in grants
Macron to reassess artist residency programmes
Plus: Cheim & Read to close Chelsea gallery | and Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum receives $9.7m grant
Parts of the Glasgow School of Art to be dismantled as a ‘matter of urgency’
Plus: British Museum defends decision to accept collection of ivories | Van Shields to retire as director of Berkshire Museum | Germany increases culture budget to €1.8bn | and Salvator Mundi to go on display at Louvre Abu Dhabi
Frick Collection’s expansion plans approved
Plus: Berlin’s Bode Museum returns sculpture looted by Nazis | Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art to reopen in January | Laurent Dumas named president of Palais de Tokyo | and Mary S. Byrd Gallery receives Ellsworth Kelly Award
Conservation groups protest against the Frick’s expansion plans
Plus: Berkshire Museum to sell nine more works from its collection | Albright-Knox Museum reveals details of planned expansion | and Jessica Porter named director of ArtTable
David Goldblatt (1930–2018)
Plus: Chagall painting back on view at National Gallery of Canada | Gallery owner arrested following OxyContin protest | and Tania Coen-Uzzielli appointed director of Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Berlin Museum of Islamic Art receives €9m from Saudi Arabian foundation
Plus: Street artist Ben Eine charged with assault after Serpentine incident | Gagosian and Jeff Koons file motion to dismiss Tananbaum lawsuit | and recommended reading
British Museum renames gallery after UAE’s Sheikh Zayed
Plus: Pasadena Museum of California Art to close | Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen to be exhibited at National Gallery | and V&A’s touring Bowie exhibition welcomes 2 million visitors
Fitzwilliam acquisition saves Queen Victoria bust for the nation
Plus: Seventeenth-century claymore stolen from Hebridean museum | New work by Flemish Baroque artist Michaelina Wautier discovered | Anish Kapoor files lawsuit against NRA | and Bronx Museum of the Arts appoints new Executive Director
Interior in Berlin refurbished to plans by Le Corbusier
Plus: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to take over the Brodsky Centre | and Brook Andrew appointed artistic director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney
Fire blazes through Glasgow School of Art
Plus: Fatal shooting at arts festival in New Jersey | Joan Jonas wins Kyoto Prize | Beyoncé and Jay-Z release new music video filmed at the Louvre | and recommended reading
Trump Foundation sued for improper spending, including $10k on a portrait
Plus: Seventh-century window ledge found at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall | Banksy print worth $45,000 stolen in Toronto | and Elvira Dyangani Ose been named the new Director of The Showroom
Judge upholds decision in 5Pointz case
Plus: Freelands Award shortlist announced | Soyoung Lee named chief curator at the Harvard Art Museums | and recommended reading
Former Stedelijk director Beatrix Ruf cleared of wrongdoing
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
World Monuments Fund gets $1 million for sites on 2018 watch list
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
Art-world figures recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Plus: Hubert Neumann sued by daughter over sale of $31 million Basquiat | Collector appeals against return of restituted Pissarro painting | and recommended reading
Melbourne to get major new contemporary art museum
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
Lichtenstein Foundation announces major donation to US museums
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
Sotheby’s takes Greek culture ministry to court
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
NVA in Scotland to close in September
Plus: Southbank Centre receives certificate of immunity from listing | Artists organise major political billboard project | and Irving Sandler (1925–2018)
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