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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
Ethiopian government seeks return of artefacts from V&A
Plus: Former MoMA director Richard E. Oldenburg has died | CB1 gallery in Los Angeles to close after artists’ complaints | and recommended reading
Getty Research Institute names Mary Miller as next director
Plus: Collector sues Jeff Koons Studio and Gagosian Gallery for ‘non-delivery’ | Victoria Miro to represent estate of Ilse D’Hollander | and recommended reading
Venice Architecture Biennale Golden Lion goes to Kenneth Frampton
Plus: Cache of James Castle drawings discovered in artist’s home | SALT Beyoğlu reopens after two-year hiatus | and Sam Francis’s catalogue raisonné made available online
Copenhagen Contemporary to reopen in a permanent space
Plus: Artefacts stolen from Museum of East Asian Art in Bath | Art Institute of Chicago receives $70m in gifts | Artist accuse Los Angeles gallery of not paying them | Statue of 19th-century gynaecologist removed from Central Park
Baltimore Museum of Art to diversify contemporary collection
Plus: Max Mara Art Prize for Women awarded to Helen Cammock | Jerry Saltz wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | and Tate announces plans for new trustee and ticket prices for young visitors
Reliquary with queen’s heart stolen from Nantes museum
Plus: Joseph Beuys estate obtained by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | London museums in Grenfell Tower tribute discussions | High Museum unveils plans for reinstallation of collection | and recommended reading
Chris Dercon resigns as director of Berlin’s Volksbühne
Plus: FBI recover stolen Chagall painting | Ellen Salpeter resigns from ICA Miami | Jean de Loisy to curate 2019 Lyon Biennale | and recommended reading
Lucas Museum is buyer of Berkshire Museum’s Rockwell painting
Plus: ICA Boston to close Nicholas Nixon show early | Carol B. Cadou appointed director of Delaware’s Winterthur Museum | and Mike Kelley Foundation releases $400,000 in artist project grants
Max Hollein named next director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plus: Gillian Ayres (1930–2018) | Smithsonian governing body approves plans for London collaboration | Berkshire Museum marks first tranche of works for auction | and Outsider Art Fair cancels plans for Basel edition
Nick Mitzevich to head National Gallery of Australia
Plus: Documenta appoints music business executive as interim CEO | Max Uhlig donates entire oeuvre to Saxony’s Cultural Foundation | National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers closes | and NEH awards $18.6m in grants
France to sign heritage agreement with Saudi Arabia
Plus: Cathy Wilkes selected to represent Britain at 2019 Venice Biennale | Rubens portrait at risk of leaving the UK | Debora L. Spar resigns as president of Lincoln Center | Nancy Ireson to join Barnes Foundation as deputy director of collections | and recommended reading
US court approves Berkshire Museum sale
Plus: Looted Egon Schiele drawings restored to the heirs of original owner | First round of partners and programmes announced by Terra-Art Bridges Initiative | Judge throws out lawsuit against Agnes Martin Authentication Committee | Francis Alÿs wins EYE Art and Film Prize | Ellen Stofan appointed director of Smithsonian Air and Space Museum | and recommended reading
Frick board approves design for $160m extension
Plus: Jean-Luc Martinez signs on for further three-year term at Louvre | Theaster Gates named inaugural visiting artist at Maine’s Lunder Institute | Brooklyn Museum under fire over hiring of white curator of African art | Three new professorships announced at future Documenta Institute | and Suad Garayeva-Maleki appointed artistic director of Yarat
Christo reveals more details of Serpentine project
Plus: Marcos art collection dispute goes to trial | Bugada & Cargnel gallery closes Paris space | Julia Kristeva dismisses espionage allegations | and SCDA Architects to helm Singapore Art Museum renovations
MAC Lyon director Thierry Raspail retires
Plus: Montréal Biennial files for bankruptcy | Justine Ludwig appointed director of Creative Time | and Christopher Scoates to direct Museum of Arts and Design in New York
Lionel Barber appointed chair of Tate trustees
Plus: Budi Tek reveals plans to form a foundation with LACMA | Stephanie Wiles named director of Yale University Art Gallery | Laura Sillars appointed director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art | Donald Trump signs bill forbidding federal funding of oil portraits of politicians | Em’kal Eyongakpa wins inaugural Henrike Grohs Art Award | and regeneration fund grants £4m towards new museum in Blackpool
Lionel Barber tipped to be next chairman of Tate board
Plus: Julia Kristeva accused of Cold War espionage | and Michael Rakowitz commission for fourth plinth unveiled
J. Paul Getty medal recipients for 2018 announced
Plus: Louvre reportedly rejects plans for Mona Lisa tour | Rare annotated copy of Ben Jonson play Epicœne saved for nation | and Nicholas Nixon retires from MassArt following misconduct allegations
Congress increases funding to NEA and NEH
Plus: The Art Newspaper publishes international visitor figures survey for 2017 | Centre Pompidou announces architects for Brussels satellite | Petition urges Hertfordshire Council to reconsider selling public art collection | Former Studio Museum building to be demolished | Andreas Rumbler to join Lévy Gorvy | and recommended reading
ICA Philadelphia is the first museum certified for paying artists fairly
Plus: Lottery grant boosts multimillion redevelopment of the Museum of Oxford | Inaugural Riga Biennial announces artist list | Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize awarded | and recommended reading
Shortlist for Hepworth Prize for Sculpture announced
Plus: Ancient Olmec statues returned to Mexico | Civil rights leader to be honoured with US Capitol statue | V&A removes advert for volunteer curatorial position | and Australian Senate publishes report on Burrup Peninsula rock art
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