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Mary Boone sentenced to 30 months in prison for tax fraud
Plus: Radical Matriarchy group protests outside National Gallery of Art in Washington | National Endowment of the Arts announces more than $27m in grants | and recommended reading
Morgan Library & Museum announces $12.5m exterior restoration project
Plus: Junya Ishigami to design Serpentine Pavilion 2019 | Christie’s helps return eight looted antiquities to Italy | Bisi Silva (1962–2019) | and fire breaks out at empty Northampton Museum & Art Gallery
Axel Rüger appointed head of Royal Academy
Plus: Richard Green sued by US client over ‘high price’ of Old Masters | Cindy Sherman awarded 2019 Max Beckmann Prize | and Blanton Museum of Art receives $20m gift from the Moody Foundation
Fatoş Üstek named director of Liverpool Biennial
Plus: Vancouver Art Gallery workers reach agreement with museum | High court dismisses Neo Bankside residents’ case against Tate | and Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019)
Robert Ryman (1930–2019)
Plus: Nan Goldin leads anti-opioid protest at New York’s Met and Guggenheim museums | and Baltimore Museum of Art receives $3.5m to endow chief curator position
Met selects Alicja Kwade for 2019 roof garden commission
Plus: Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio win Royal Academy Architecture Prize | Nuremberg prosecutor seizes 63 suspected Hitler forgeries | and Oliver Barker to direct Cape Ann Museum in Massachusetts
Christie’s posts record sales total of £5.3bn for 2018
Plus: Vancouver Art Gallery staff go on strike over wages | Philipp Kaiser joins Marian Goodman Gallery | and recommended reading
Rio museum completes controversial Pollock painting sale
Plus: Venice implements tax for day tourists | and Jessica Martinez to direct Cornell University’s art museum
MoMA to close for four months during final stage of expansion
Plus: Germany puts €1.9m towards research on colonial-era artefacts | Nabatean carved stones returned to Jordan | and Met curator wins $100,000 Vilcek Prize honouring immigrants in US
Relationship between Jerwood Foundation and Jerwood Gallery in doubt
Plus: Nigeria asks British Museum to return Lander Stool | Lyn Kienholz (1930–2019)
UK government wants to widen legal definition of treasure
Plus: Annabelle Selldorf to design Forbidden City’s visitor centre | Ramiken Gallery awarded inaugural Armory Show prize | and recommended reading
Berkshire Museum appoints Jeff Rodgers as executive director
Plus: Elmgreen & Dragset monument vandalised in Berlin | Georgia O’Keeffe Museum buys Ritz Tower painting | and Kimbell Art Museum names new European art curator
Mosul Museum partially reopens with contemporary exhibition
Plus: More than 75 New York galleries sued over disability access | and El Museo del Barrio cancels Alejandro Jodorowsky retrospective
Susan Hiller (1940–2019)
Plus: Row over British Museum director’s comments on Elgin Marbles | London’s Royal College of Art launches regeneration programme | and Assyrian sculptures in Scottish mansion sold abroad
Federally funded museums reopen after US government shutdown
Plus: Banksy mural stolen from the Bataclan theatre | Fine Art Group buys the Falcon Group’s art lending division | and Johns Hopkins University to buy Newseum building
Large Asian art collection donated to the University of Texas at Dallas
Plus: Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins Artes Mundi prize | New Museum workers vote to unionise | Van Gogh’s Sunflowers will no longer leave Amsterdam | and recommended reading
Vancouver Art Gallery receives $40m for new building
Plus: Tate and Hyundai launch research centre for non-Western art | and John Ashbery’s library donated to Harvard |
Jonas Mekas (1922–2019)
Plus: National Museum of Scotland to return Native American skulls | Aaron Fowler wins $10,000 prize from Seattle Art Museum | and Trevor Paglen’s space sculpture hindered by US shutdown
Haus der Kunst Munich appoints commission to oversee programming
Plus: Stolen Spanish stone carvings recovered in England | Designs for London Centre of Music revealed | Arts Council publishes guide for ‘no deal’ Brexit | and new prize for art history doctorates in France
Proposed ‘Tulip’ skyscraper breaches London planning guidelines
Plus: Hayward Gallery names Zoe Whitley as senior curator | Lamia al-Gailani (1939–2019) | and recommended reading
Zimbabwe biennial postponed due to political turmoil
Plus: American Alliance of Museums announces new museum leadership diversity initiative | UK government pledges £20m culture fund for five English regions | Haifa removes McJesus sculpture after continuing protests | and recommended reading
Artsy president and co-founder Sebastian Cwilich to step down
Plus: MOCA Los Angeles to close Pacific Design Center | and Warhol Foundation announces latest grants
Art Stage Singapore cancelled
Plus: Global fund Aliph announces its first cultural heritage projects in Iraq and Mali | 'Michelangelo' painting stolen from Belgian church | Bloomberg awards $1m to Tulsa, Oklahoma | and winners of Creative Capital Awards 2019 announced
Kanye West donates $10m for James Turrell crater in Arizona
Plus: Installation featuring Saudi Arabian flag to be relocated away from Ground Zero | Doyle auction house appoints new CEO and president | and Montreal contemporary art foundation announces rebrand