Art News Daily

Plus: Art project to temporarily resurrect Berlin Wall is cancelled | Iniva will relocate to the Chelsea College of Arts campus | Designer John Christakos to be new president of board of trustees at Walker Art Center | and recommended reading

Plus: Vera List Center for Art and Politics receives $5m gift | Arthur Mitchell (1934–2018) | and Spanish government pledges €30m for Prado expansion

Plus: Chinese art removed from Trump’s updated trade tariffs | Dealer Jan Six has identified a second Rembrandt | David Adjaye to build new art museum for Princeton University

Plus: Annette Michelson (1922–2018) | Jan Fabre accused of sexual harassment | and White Cube announces representation of first artist estate

Plus: Manuela Moscoso appointed curator of Liverpool Biennial 2020 | Knight Foundation launches $5m Art and Technology Fund in Philadelphia | Hauser & Wirth to open gallery in St. Moritz | David Zwirner collaborates with Fraenkel  Gallery to represent estate of Diane Arbus | and Louis Marchesano named new senior curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Plus: French court releases Pyotr Pavlensky from pre-trial detention | Artists in Cuba denounce new law that will increase state censorship | Gagosian hires former brain surgeon Frank Moore | and recommended reading

Plus: Dubai private equity firm bows out of Art Dhabi sponsorship | Nazi-stolen Renoir painting returned to Jewish collector’s descendant | and Earliest known drawing found in South African cave

Plus: New York appeals court rejects model’s heirs claims to Matisse portrait | Beazley Designs of the Year 2018 shortlist announced | and Shortlist for RIBA 2018 International Prize announced

Plus: Eduoard Kopp appointed chief curator of Menil Drawing Institute | Women arrested for damaging artefacts in Athens | LarbitsSisters win inaugural prize for interactive and new media art | and archaeologists discover Roman coins beneath disused theatre in Como

Plus: Yasufumi Nakamori appointed Tate’s senior curator of international art | Steven Parissien steps down as director of Compton Verney Art Gallery | and Nancy Blomberg (1946–2018)

Plus: Dominic Willsdon named new director of ICA at VCU | Glenstone Museum sued by contractors for $24m | New York gallery cancels exhibition featuring alleged neo-Nazi | and recommended reading

Plus: CCA in Glasgow’s indefinite closure puts it in financial peril | Mary Jane Long (1939–2018) | Wizard of Oz ruby slippers found 13 years after theft | and Ben Hartley named executive director of New York’s National Arts Club

Plus: Frieze Art Fair to introduce new pricing system at Los Angeles debut | Kokoschka returned to Jewish heirs by Sweden’s Moderna Museet | and Denise Scott Brown receives Soane Medal 2018

Plus: Open letter criticises gender disparity at Rencontres d’Arles | and performance artist charged with sexual exhibitionism after posing nude at Lourdes

Plus: Art Basel introduces booth pricing-system to benefit young galleries | Ullens Center to open second museum | UK cultural figures sign letter demanding release of Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam | Adila Laïdi-Hanieh appointed director of Palestinian Museum | and Joanna Kamm named director of Liste Art Fair

Plus: Museum in Saskatchewan, Canada receives $25million endowment | Non-profit gallery evicted in Jerusalem | ICA Los Angeles announces new board members | and recommended reading

Plus: Renzo Piano offers to design new bridge in Genoa | Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize shortlist announced | and MacDowell Colony fellows named

Plus: German biennale dismantles Erdoğan statue following protests | National Portrait Gallery revises visitor figures after error | Yale’s Peabody Museum gifted $160 million | and  Nancy Chunn wins Artists' Legacy Foundation 2018 Artist Award

Plus: Georgia returns 17th-century painting to Germany | and Berlin’s Arratia Beer Gallery to Close

Plus: Krishna Reddy (1925–2018) | and recommended reading