Art News Daily

Plus: Sadaharu Horio (1939–2018) | and David Hockney receives lifetime achievement award for printmaking

Plus: Sally Tallent appointed Director of New York’s Queens Museum Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 announce shortlist | and Nam June Paik Art Center Prize 2018 awarded to Trevor Paglen

Plus: Sotheby’s reports losses of $27.8m for third quarter of 2018 | Finnish dealers fined and jailed for five-year forgery scam | World’s tallest statue unveiled in India | and recommended reading

Plus: Restitution committee says Stedelijk can keep Kandinsky | and Kimerly Rorschach to retire as director of Seattle Art Museum

Plus: Alfredo Jaar announced as winner of 11th Hiroshima Art Prize | and Venice museums reopen following city’s worst flood in a decade

Plus: Bill Arning resigns as director of Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | and Institut du Monde Arabe receives gift of 1,300 works 

Plus: The National Museum in Damascus has reopened after six years | David Kordansky announces plans to expand his LA gallery | 2018 MAXXI Bulgari Prize awarded to Diego Marcon

Plus: Mary Corse artwork damaged by fire at Dia:Beacon | Hito Steyerl wins 2019 Käthe Kollwitz Prize | and recommended reading

Plus: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation criticised after performance cancellation | and Studio Voltaire in London announces £2.3m capital project

Plus: Norman Foster withdraws from Saudi tech-city project | Museum of the Bible's Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are forgeries | Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev wins Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence

Plus: Jac Leirner wins the Wolfgang Hahn Prize | and Harold Gregor (1929–2018)

Plus: Co-founder of Kochi-Muziris Biennale resigns | Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha reveals plans to expand | Brooklyn’s Signal gallery to close | and recommended reading

Plus: Glasgow’s Winter Gardens will shut indefinitely for repairs at the end of the year | Simone Leigh wins Hugo Boss Prize | Diedrick Brackens wins $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Prize | Niels van Tomme leaves de Appel Museum for Argos Centre for Art and Media | and recommended reading

Plus: Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens appoints Adam Levine as director and CEO | Banksy video claims artwork was intended to shred entirely | Autry Museum of the American West receives grant from Native tribe | and Jacques Monory (1924–2018)

Plus: Alice Mann wins Taylor Wessing prize 2018 | Franck Riester appointed as French culture minister | and Mel Ramos (1935–2018)

Plus: Filmmaker Clément Cogitore receives Marcel Duchamp Prize | and Frontier Art Prize awarded to Tavares Strachan

Plus: Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018) | Prizes go to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Postcommodity at Carnegie International 2018 | and recommended reading

Plus: Location confirmed for Jeff Koons’ Bouquet of Tulips in Paris | and sale of shredded Banksy work confirmed

Plus: Open letter criticises suspension of Catherine de Zegher | Persian relic is taken to Tehran museum by Iranian President Rouhani | and CEO and Executive Director of Peabody Essex Museum retires after 25-year tenure | National Gallery receives £4 million to refurbish Room 32

Plus: For Freedoms announces artists taking part in midterm elections project | Art Dubai appoints Chloe Vaisou as international director | Newark Museum appoints Linda Harrison as director | and Maria Seferian elected chair of the board at MOCA Los Angeles

Plus: Controversy over billboard advertising on Sydney Opera House | Titian painting damaged after falling in Spanish monastery | and activists stage protest at American Museum of Natural History

Plus: Theaster Gates’s Rebuild Foundation receives $300,000 from JPMorgan Chase | MacArthur Foundation awards 2018 ‘Genius’ grants | José Esparza Chong Cuy appointed executive director and chief curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture | Vera List Center names Chimurenga winner of 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice | and recommended reading

Plus: French court upholds ruling ordering return of Pissarro painting to Jewish heirs | Shirin Aliabadi (1973–2018) | Controversy over planned sale of Kerry James Marshall mural in Chicago | and artists demonstrate against police handling of activist death in Greece