Art News Daily
National Galleries Scotland will no longer host BP Portrait Award
Plus: National Gallery in London launches fundraising appeal to buy Orazio Gentileschi painting | Arts Council England criticised for leaving Paolozzi sculpture at building site | and Sotheby’s Prize goes to two Brazilian exhibitions of Indigenous art
Gus Casely-Hayford appointed first director of V&A East
Plus: Los Angeles police recover $800,000 of stolen lithographs | first archaeological evidence of prehistoric hunting traps discovered in Mexico | Sally Dixon (1932–2019) | and recommended reading
Kunstmuseum Bern to sell Manet painting from Gurlitt Hoard for $4m
Plus: Marciano Art Foundation says it has ‘no present plans to reopen’ | Japanese embassy removes support for Vienna exhibition | former Stedelijk director Beatrix Ruf heads to Moscow’s Garage Museum | and Victor Obsatz (1925–2019)
High court rejects bid to overturn ban on ivory trading
Plus: Pat Martin named as winner of Taylor Wessing prize | Marciano Art Foundation lays off 60 staff members amid workers’ attempts to unionise | and editor-in-chief of British Vogue to present Turner Prize 2019 in Margate
National Portrait Gallery in London to close for three years during refurbishment
Plus: UK government invests £10m in Cultural Protection Fund | Gallerists Graham Southern and Harry Blain end partnership | and Royal West of England Academy announces funding boost
Prince Charles’s charitable foundation returns loan of paintings that may contain forgeries
Plus: Los Angeles County Museum of Art receives $4.6m funding boost at annual gala | and Monika Baer and Natascha Sadr Haghighian receive Hannah Höch awards
New York commissioner for cultural affairs announces surprise resignation
Plus: Italian Old Master forger appeals against arrest warrant and transfer to French courts | David Rubenstein donates $10m to build Jefferson Memorial Museum | and recommended reading
Doris Salcedo wins inaugural $1m Nomura Art Award
Plus: Fire destroys World Heritage Site of Shuri Castle in Japan | Phil Collins withdraws from MoMA PS1 show in support of prison divestment campaign | and Sandra Jackson-Dumont to direct Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Contemporary Art Fair of Chile rescheduled after violent protests in Santiago
Plus: Pakistani authorities criticised for removing works addressing police brutality from Karachi Biennial | London’s Parasol Unit closes | and Getty Center closes following California wildfires
‘Fire-proof’ Getty Center resists California wildfires
Plus: World Monument Fund announces 25 endangered sites
Cimabue painting found in kitchen sells for €24m at auction
Plus: Sotheby’s appoints Charles F. Stewart as chief executive officer | Ancient cave paintings attributed to Neanderthals may have been misdated | Hugo Crosthwaite wins National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.’s triennial portrait prize
New York City puts out call for designs for black history monuments
Plus: TeamLab to open galleries in Shanghai and Macao | Crowds scale Uluru Rock in Australia before ban | and recommended reading
Spanish government exhumes Franco’s remains from Valley of the Fallen
Plus: FBI recovers Nazi-looted painting from Arkell Museum | Art organisations in Beirut close amid protests | and Karen Rifas wins Michael Richards award
Smithsonian partners with US Army to protect cultural heritage
Plus: Huntington Library appoints chief curator of American Art | Artcurial opens premises in Morocco| Francis Alÿs wins Whitechapel Gallery’s Art Icon award | Foundation dedicated to light art to launch in Berlin | and inaugural Helsinki Biennial announces artist list
Haus der Kunst names Andrea Lissoni as director
Plus: Contemporary Istanbul chairman apologises for defending Turkish invasion of Syria | Pew Center awards more than $8.4m in grants | and Junya Ishigami wins inaugural Obel Prize for architecture
Huang Yong Ping (1954–2019)
Plus: Ed Clark (1926–2019) | Polly Staple appointed director of Tate’s collection for British Art | Oxford professor alleged to have sold papyrus fragments | and unnamed art dealer arrested in Berlin
Centre Pompidou to establish ‘art factory’ in Paris suburb
Plus: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive receive bequest of African American art | Protestors target MoMA trustee with ties to Puerto Rican debt crisis | and recommended reading
Italian court lifts loan ban on Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man
Plus: Brooklyn Museum offers Bacon Pope at Sotheby’s | and Carlos Celdran (1972–2019)
Emilie Gordenker announced as new general director of Van Gogh Museum
Plus: Stefan Edlis (1925–2019) | Arthur Jafa named as winner of Prix International d’Art Contemporain | thief steals $20,000 Salvador Dalí etching from San Francisco gallery | and E.A. Carmean, Jr. (1945–2019)
Éric Baudelaire wins Prix Marcel Duchamp
Plus: Anti-Columbus Day protestors gather at Metropolitan Museum of Art | and Enda Bowe named as recipient of Zurich Portrait Prize
John Giorno (1936–2019)
Plus: Ettore Spalletti (1940–2019) | Charles Jencks (1939–2019) | Companies involved in fraudulent art investment case wound up by UK courts | Italian culture minister reappoints three museum directors
Open letter calls for MoMA trustee Larry Fink to divest from private prisons
Plus: Gladiator fresco uncovered in Pompeii | Nan Goldin and PAIN protest at Purdue Pharma bankruptcy hearings | and recommended reading
Bertille Bak wins Mario Merz Prize for art
Plus: Courtauld Institute adds courses in contemporary and modern African art | and Jill Freedman (1939–2019)
Italian court blocks Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man from travelling to Louvre
Plus: Ikon wins £125,000 award and announces first UK exhibition of Renaissance master Carlo Crivelli | Stirling architecture prize awarded to Norwich council houses | and Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art receives gift of $1.15 million