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Walker Art Center forms Indigenous Public Art Selection Committee
Plus: Anne Olivier Bell (1916–2018) and recommended reading
Tate St Ives among finalists for Stirling Prize 2018
Plus: Regiment museum in Stirling awarded £1m lottery funding | Ancient skulls stolen from church display in Kent | and winners of Write on Art prize announced
Janet Archer resigns as chief executive of Creative Scotland
Plus: Robert Leckie is appointed director of Spike Island | Oxford’s Story Museum receives £1m funding boost | and Inaugural European ArtEast Foundation grants announced
Indian government forms expert panel to address Taj Mahal pollution
Plus: Eric Shiner joins White Cube in New York | Tel Aviv gallery criticised for showing Arab artists without permission | Affordable housing scheme for artists approved in East London | and New York public libraries launch free museum access scheme
Art educators bring claim for unfair dismissal against National Gallery
Plus: Pussy Riot invade pitch after World Cup final | Site Gallery appoints Sharna Jackson new artistic director | National Railway Museum cancels design contest for redevelopment | and recommended reading
MCH Group is launching a new fair in Singapore
Plus: FBI recovers Robert Motherwell painting stolen 40 years ago | Michael Gitlitz appointed executive director of Katonah Museum of Art | and recommended reading
Guelph Treasure case to be heard by a US federal court
Plus: Kathy Noble joins Performa as a curator | Hauser & Wirth hires Christie’s veteran Liberté Nuti | Winners of Dulwich Pavilion 2019 contest announced | and Jacqui Hallum wins the John Moores Painting Prize 2018
Glasgow School of Art to be rebuilt
Plus: Russian billionaire Vladimir Scherbakov accused Swiss dealer of fraud | Praemium Imperiale art prizes announced | and fire breaks out at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York
Jeremy Wright appointed UK culture secretary
Plus: Daniel Birnbaum leaves Moderna Museet to head VR production company | US Appeals Court rules mostly against artists’ right to resale royalties | and Cheim & Read’s Adam Sheffer to join Pace Gallery
Gainsborough’s House museum awarded £4.5m lottery grant
Plus: Curator sues MoMA PS1 for rescinding employment offer after discovering she had a baby | Blue plaque honouring Bauhaus figures unveiled at London’s Isokon building | and recommended reading
Tate St Ives named Art Fund Museum of the Year
Plus: Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts will remain closed over summer | National Gallery buys Artemisia Gentileschi self-portrait | and Met museum announces record visitor figures
Jean-Marc Bustamante to leave École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
Plus: UK and France sign memorandum of understanding over Bayeux Tapestry | Otto Naumann to join Sotheby’s | Art Institute of Colorado to close | and Alireza Taghaboni wins RA’s inaugural Dorfman Award
German government steps in to buy Giambologna sculpture
Plus: LACMA pushes to meet $600m fundraising target
Cézanne family and Bern museum reach agreement over Gurlitt painting
Plus: Report recommends removing statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond | and Myrna Ayad steps down as director of Art Dubai
Philadelphia History Museum to close indefinitely
Plus: TEFAF brings management of its New York fairs in-house | RIBA sends ‘cease and desist’ letter to presidential candidate | Christy MacLear leaves Sotheby’s Advisory Art Agency, Partners | and Art for Justice Fund gives out nearly $10m in grants
Macron to reassess artist residency programmes
Plus: Cheim & Read to close Chelsea gallery | and Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum receives $9.7m grant
Parts of the Glasgow School of Art to be dismantled as a ‘matter of urgency’
Plus: British Museum defends decision to accept collection of ivories | Van Shields to retire as director of Berkshire Museum | Germany increases culture budget to €1.8bn | and Salvator Mundi to go on display at Louvre Abu Dhabi
Frick Collection’s expansion plans approved
Plus: Berlin’s Bode Museum returns sculpture looted by Nazis | Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art to reopen in January | Laurent Dumas named president of Palais de Tokyo | and Mary S. Byrd Gallery receives Ellsworth Kelly Award
Conservation groups protest against the Frick’s expansion plans
Plus: Berkshire Museum to sell nine more works from its collection | Albright-Knox Museum reveals details of planned expansion | and Jessica Porter named director of ArtTable
David Goldblatt (1930–2018)
Plus: Chagall painting back on view at National Gallery of Canada | Gallery owner arrested following OxyContin protest | and Tania Coen-Uzzielli appointed director of Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Berlin Museum of Islamic Art receives €9m from Saudi Arabian foundation
Plus: Street artist Ben Eine charged with assault after Serpentine incident | Gagosian and Jeff Koons file motion to dismiss Tananbaum lawsuit | and recommended reading
British Museum renames gallery after UAE’s Sheikh Zayed
Plus: Pasadena Museum of California Art to close | Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen to be exhibited at National Gallery | and V&A’s touring Bowie exhibition welcomes 2 million visitors
Fitzwilliam acquisition saves Queen Victoria bust for the nation
Plus: Seventeenth-century claymore stolen from Hebridean museum | New work by Flemish Baroque artist Michaelina Wautier discovered | Anish Kapoor files lawsuit against NRA | and Bronx Museum of the Arts appoints new Executive Director
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
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