MOCA director Philippe Vergne to depart
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
China to build $2.8bn arts district near Beijing
Plus: Robert Indiana’s house to become a museum | Elizabeth Duggal appointed deputy director at the Guggenheim | and recommended reading
Kunsthalle Wien director to step down over fears about growing Austrian nationalism
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
Nominees withdraw from all-male shortlist for Belgian art prize
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
Robert Indiana (1928–2018)
Plus: Getty Foundation awards grants to prints and drawings departments | Interview magazine folds | Rothko Chapel in Houston vandalised
Kraemer brothers among six charged in Louis XIV furniture case
Plus: Berlin State Museums return nine artefacts to Alaska | and recommended reading
Laura Pye appointed director of National Museums Liverpool
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
Zeitz MOCAA director quits during suspension
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
Painting newly identified as work by Rembrandt
Plus: Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) | and Germany announces code of conduct on handling colonial-era objects
Modigliani painting breaks Sotheby’s record
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
Will Alsop (1947–2018)
Plus: Rockefeller collection breaks auction record | MoMA appoints Rob Giampietro as Director of Design | and recommended reading
Beyoncé donates ring from Jay-Z to the V&A
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
Per Kirkeby (1938–2018)
Plus: Nicolas Bourriaud to curate 2019 Istanbul Biennial | UK culture minister pledges to distribute works of art to the regions | and report urges France to reform Nazi-era restitution approach
National Portrait Gallery receives £5m towards new wing
Plus: Artists express concern over UK education policy | Christie’s first Rockefeller sale pulls in $646m | Fund announced for community arts projects in northern England | and Met issues call for information about jewel-theft suspect
Australia budgets $50m for Captain Cook commemorations
Plus: Stolen paintings recovered in Italy | New York art dealer pleads guilty to fraud | and online petition calls for Anna Coliva’s reinstatement at Galleria Borghese
The mayor of Paris wants the city to store art from conflict zones
Plus: British Council arts employee detained in Iran | US government could subject art dealers to financial regulations | Margaret McDermott (1912–2018) | and recommended reading
Bernini’s Saint Bibiana reportedly damaged in transit
Plus: Collectors join forces to launch $800,000 art prize | New Artangel fund established with artists’ gifts | and Charlotte Amelia Poe wins inaugural Spectrum Prize
Art Fund reveals shortlist for Museum of the Year 2018
Plus: Temporary export bar placed on Joseph Wright of Derby painting | Collector sues Sotheby’s over sale of Mahmoud Mokhtar sculpture | Freya Simms named chief executive of LAPADA | and David Zwirner to represent Joan Mitchell Foundation
National Galleries of Scotland acquire two Raeburn portraits
Plus: NEA chair Jane Chu to step down | Columbia MFA students demand refunds | Hollywood producer sues Gagosian over non-delivery of Koons sculpture | and David Zwirner proposes to ‘subsidise’ small galleries at art fairs
Étienne Terrus Museum discovers half its collection is fake
Plus: Director of Galleria Borghese faces trial for absenteeism | Golden leaves stolen from dome of Vienna’s Secession building | Princess Margriet Award for Culture 2018 goes to Forensic Architecture and Borderland | and recommended reading
Nan Goldin stages anti-opioid protest in Washington, D.C.
Plus: Natural History Museum disqualifies award-winning photographer | Initial line-up announced for 2019 Sharjah Biennial | and Galerie Samy Abraham in Paris to close
Turner Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Plus: Abbas (1944–2018) | Documenta appoints new CEO | Laura Aguilar (1959–2018) | Peter Bläuer retires from Liste art fair | and Bowdoin College Museum of Art receives more than 1,500 artworks
Sotheby’s posts record auction estimate for Modigliani work
Plus: UAE to finance $50m Mosul reconstruction project | Knight Foundation donates $1m to US museums | Cristian Valsecchi named general manager of Fondazione Prada | and New York dealers challenge antique ivory sales law
Sophia Al-Maria wins inaugural Dunya Contemporary Art Prize
Plus: Lindsay Pollock joins Whitney Museum | ‘Selfie monkey’ not eligible to hold photo copyright | and Millicent Fawcett statue unveiled in Parliament Square
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