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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)
Okwui Enwezor to step down as director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst
Plus: Jeremy Corbyn pledges to return Parthenon Marbles | National Trust for Scotland announces grants of £60m for heritage projects | New information regarding whereabouts of stolen Caravaggio | David Chipperfield selected to transform Santander headquarters into art gallery | and recommended reading
Report recommends that Liverpool keep World Heritage Status
Plus: Dallas Museum of Art acquires Derick Baegert panel | Robert J. Fisher appointed chair of SFMoMA board | and winners of inaugural Pax Art Award announced
MoMA union plans protest over employee contracts
Plus: Federal investigators close probe on Yves Bouvier | Plans to relocate Escher Museum in doubt | and Thomas Dane to represent Anthea Hamilton
Opening of Lee Bul show delayed after work catches fire
Plus: Opinions divided on Frick project at public hearing | Emperor Constantine’s finger identified in the Louvre | Shortlist announced for Sobey Art Award | and Leon Black named chairman of MoMA board of trustees
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
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