Art News Daily

Plus: New Museum employees vote to strike if contract agreement not reached | Man sentenced to three years for theft from the Tretyakov | James Bradburne reconfirmed as director of Pinacoteca di Brera | and Jorge Pérez to open private museum in Miami

Plus: Looted sarcophagus acquired by the Met returned to Egypt | and recommended reading

Plus: French luxury goods billionaires finalise €300m donation to Notre Dame | Former BP chief one of four new sponsors of Turner prize | and more art news

Plus: Italy lends key works for the Louvre’s Leonardo retrospective | MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ recipients announced | Pot excavated from beneath Rembrandt’s house linked to artist

Plus: Huguette Caland (1931–2019) | Josef Albers mural returns to Manhattan skyscraper | and recommended reading

Plus: Wim Crouwel (1928–2019) | AI database to remove 600,000 images after artists expose bias | The Scottish Gallery to become employee-owned | and Paisley Museum renovation receives £2 million from Scottish government

Plus: Montreal MFA appoints first curator of Inuit art | and recommended reading

Plus: Séverine Lepape named director of the Cluny Museum | and Guatemala and Mexico protest pre-Columbian sale in Paris

Plus: second arrest made in connection with Cattelan toilet heist | and Walker Art Center announces new sculpture commission

Plus: French culture minister promises 1,000 digital museums | and Japan Art Association announces international award winners

Plus: Daniel Buren painting attacked at the Pompidou | Rumours of Prince Philip statue at Trafalgar Square dismissed | and recommended reading

Plus: painter arrested in Italy over Old Master fake scandal | Golden Age terminology vetoed by Amsterdam Museum | winning design unveiled for new Archaeological Museum of Sparta | and recommended reading

Plus: Record-breaking £58.6m of cultural artefacts handed over to UK through Arts Council schemes | Mary Abbott (1921–2019)

Plus: Vasif Kortun announced as director of Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum | Whitney Museum names Tiona Nekkia McClodden as recipient of 2019 Bucksbaum Award | and Pace Gallery announces appointments at opening of new East Coast headquarters

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)