Petition against scrapping of Australian federal arts department signed by 34,000
Plus: Arts Council England to monitor class background of arts workers | Protests at Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts over unpaid staff wages | and Caroline Fowler named director of Research and Academic Program at Clark Art Institute
Monaco court dismisses fraud charges against dealer Yves Bouvier
Plus: TEFAF awards €50,000 in conservation grants to LACMA and V&A | Maurizio Cattelan’s banana artwork sparks uprising from janitors in Miami | and recommended reading
Sotheby’s wins lawsuit over disputed Frans Hals painting
Plus: Art Berlin fair cancelled permanently | and cave painting found in Indonesia believed to be world’s oldest narrative art
Rebecca Salter elected first female president of RA
Plus: Painting discovered in gallery wall could be stolen Klimt | Deborah Cullen-Morales steps down as director of Bronx Museum | An unconventional portrayal of Zapata sparks protests in Mexico | and May Stevens (1924–2019)
Bettina Korek appointed chief executive of Serpentine Galleries
Plus: Charles Saumarez Smith leaves post at Blain Southern | Catherine Opie to chair UCLA’s art department in newly endowed position | and National Museum of the Resistance to be built in Milan
Performance artist eats Maurizio Cattelan banana in Miami
Plus: Maori carvings to return to New Zealand after 130 years | MOCA in LA to recognise workers’ union | and Donald B. Marron (1934–2019)
Penn Museum returns ancient clay tablets to Iraq
Plus: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announces new director | and recommended reading
Museums across France close or restrict access due to national strikes
Plus: German art collective issue apology for controversial Berlin monument | UN rebukes threats against former Kyrgyz museum director | Dresden police receive more than 500 tip-off calls about Green Vault heist | Smithsonian museums rebrand as National Museum of Asian art
Turner Prize awarded to all four shortlisted artists
Plus: Christopher Breward appointed director of National Museums Scotland | and Stephen Garrett (1922–2019)
Controversial monument containing ashes from Holocaust victims installed in Berlin
Plus: Turkish court rules that Kariye Museum must become mosque | Byron Kim announced as recipient of Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize | and Andrés Jaque announced as curator of Shanghai Biennale
Mayor of Budapest halts construction of €250m New National Gallery
Plus: UNESCO-listed town in Austria damaged by major fire | Danish court prevents Tal R painting from being chopped up to make watches | and burglars steal medals and jewellery from Stasi Museum
State of Saxony returns indigenous remains to Australia
Plus: Reward of €500,000 offered for recovery of Green Vault jewels | Nancy Astor statue unveiled in Plymouth | and recommended reading
Geffrye Museum to reopen as Museum of the Home
Plus: Juan Pablo Langlois (1936–2019) | and three artists elected to Hong Kong District Councils
Russian and Syrian officials agree plans to restore Palmyra
Plus: Cambridge college to return Benin Bronze to Nigeria | Art Basel cancels three-day event in Abu Dhabi | Lecturers at the Courtauld Institute strike over conditions | and Hetty Berg appointed director of Jewish Museum Berlin
Belgian police intervene in ownership dispute over religious sculptures
Plus: Security footage of Dresden heist released | Hetain Patel wins Jarman Award | and Performa prize awarded to Nairy Baghramian and Maria Hassabi
Thieves raid historic treasury at royal palace in Dresden
Plus: Conservative Party general election manifesto promises £250m for culture | staff at MOCA in Los Angeles seek to unionise | and Matteo Salvini hits out at sculpture showing him shooting refugees
British metal detectorists sentenced for stealing Saxon and Viking hoard worth £3m
Plus: Cecilia Vicuña awarded Spain’s most prominent art prize | Manchester Museum is first UK institution to return objects to indigenous groups | Whitney Museum receives $1m grant to fund Hudson River installation | and recommended reading
Labour Party general election manifesto pledges £1bn culture boost
Plus: Biennale de Lyon names Yves Robert as new chief executive | Anonymous Was a Woman announces recipients of $25,000 grants | and MOCA in LA to introduce free admission across both sites
French court upholds sentence handed to Picasso’s former electrician
Plus: €300m collection goes missing in China | and Guggenheim reveals shortlist for 2020 Hugo Boss Prize
Baltimore Museum of Art pledges to collect only work by women in 2020
Plus: France returns sword of Omar Saïdou Tall to Senegal | and Stephanie Comilang Wins 2019 Sobey Art Award
Nan Goldin and P.A.I.N. activists stage protest at V&A
Plus: Wallace Collection announces first ever loan | Monnaie de Paris cancels its contemporary art programme | and Terry O’Neill (1938–2019)
Plans to turn Whitechapel Bell Foundry into a hotel get go-ahead
Plus: Experts suggest Botticelli ‘copy’ at National Museum Cardiff could be real | German parliament approves new €364m budget for Berlin museum | and Safani gallery files lawsuit to avoid returning ancient artefact to Italy
Police investigate attempted theft of Rembrandts from Dulwich Picture Gallery
Plus: Met Museum announces bequest of $80m and 375 works from Jayne Wrightsman | Rio Art Museum could close due to funding delays | and Open Society Foundations pledges $15m to aid repatriation of African objects
Tide in Venice reaches highest level in half a century
Plus: Hurley Building in Boston may be demolished | and Connaissance des Arts bids for stake in two French fairs
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