Art News Daily

Plus: ICOM postpones vote on new definition for museums | and Banksy’s former agent Steve Lazarides quits gallery

Plus: Dario Franceschini reappointed as Italian culture minister | Whitechapel Gallery announces winners of Art Book Awards | and majority stake in BADA fair sold to Masterpiece founders

Plus: LAPD detectives recover stolen artworks last seen in 1993 | Art Recovery International asks ICOM to investigate Reynolds painting in Tokyo | and recommended reading

Plus: Magalí Arriola named director of Museo Tamayo | Wildfires damage Bolivia’s rock art | and Amy Sadao to step down as director of ICA Philadelphia

Plus: Michael Rakowitz wins 2020 Nasher Prize for Sculpture | Rosalind Nashashibi announced as National Gallery’s first Artist in Residence | and Eva Langret named artistic director of Frieze London

Plus: Christian Dior exhibition was V&A’s most-visited | MCH sells majority stake in India Art Fair to Angus Montgomery Arts | and Alan Cristea Gallery renamed as Cristea Roberts Gallery

Plus: Chinese billionaire and founder of private Shanghai art museum arrested | London dealer Joseph Nahmad receives suspended sentence for assault

Plus: French court rules against return of paintings to heirs of Jewish collector | Howardena Pindell receives Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s 2019 award | and designs for Paisley Museum’s £42 million revamp revealed

Plus: UK survey highlights art’s positive effects in society | and National Gallery of Victoria defends decision to reject Hong Kong panel

Plus: Atlanta’s High Museum of Art receives significant Impressionist and Post-Impressionist donation | Planning permission granted for major arts project in Sheffield | Turner Prize-hosting Nerve Visual Gallery to close | and Werner Kramarsky (1926–2019)

Plus: Petworth House paintings to be restored | and division mounts over ICOM museum definition

Plus: David H. Koch (1940–2019) | National Portrait Gallery puts portrait of Jane Seymour on display | and recommended reading

Plus: Di Rosa Center urged to change deaccession plans | and Simon Preston appointed senior director at Pace

Plus: Kiluanji Kia Henda chosen for 1–54 courtyard commission | and UK-based curator loses appeal against prison sentence in Iran

Plus: Eighteenth-century Scottish castle goes up for sale | Rebecca Wei resigns as Christie’s Asia chairman | and UK export bar placed on early Millais painting

Plus: Santiago Calatrava fined €86,000 over Venice bridge | Betti-Sue Hertz appointed director of Wallach Art Gallery | and recommended reading

Plus: Istanbul Biennial announces new venue in former warehouse | and recommended reading

Plus: US tariff on Chinese art and antiquities to take effect in September | and National Gallery reveals underdrawings beneath Leonardo painting

Plus: Central Park monument to women’s suffrage redesigned | Pace Gallery launches art tech platform | and Daniela Rivera wins DeCordova’s Rappaport Prize

Plus: Sadiq Khan backs calls for slavery museum in London | Artists request removal of work from Aichi Triennale | and UK government places export bar on £28m Monet

Plus: Nancy Reddin Kienholz (1943-2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Monique Barbier-Mueller (1929–2019) | Mead Art Museum receives anonymous gift of 170 contemporary works

Plus: Gordon Rintoul will step down as NMS director | and Jamaican minister calls for restitution of artefacts in British Museum collection

Plus: Kamal Boullata (1942–2019) | Aichi Triennale artists sign statement calling for restoration of censorship exhibition | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures director resigns