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British Museum facilitates return of looted Iraqi antiquities
Plus: Prosecutors drop case against former Documenta officials | Mika Rottenberg wins Kurt Schwitters Prize 2019 | Norton Museum director to retire
RIBA appoints new president amid controversy
Plus: NADA’s New York fair 2019 cancelled | Liverpool Biennial restores destroyed work documenting refugee crisis | and Pussy Riot member barred from leaving Russia
Easter Islanders call for British Museum to return Moai statue
Plus: Nam June Paik Prize 2018 shortlist announced | CEO of MCH Group resigns | and Toby Kamps joins White Cube
MoMA employees stage protest ahead of union negotiations
Plus: Sotheby’s sales increase but net profit falls | Bangladeshi police arrest renowned photographer Shahidul Alam | Gagosian Hong Kong appoints Han-I Wang as Senior Director | and recommended reading
Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei’s studio
Plus: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art rediscovers ten Picasso works in its collection | Russia appoints Steven Seagal as a cultural envoy | and recommended reading
Artists remove works from Design Museum in protest over arms-trade event
Plus: New Museum receives $660,000 grant to develop art technology | Sotheby’s names Simon Shaw vice chairman of global fine art division | and recommended reading
Crown jewels stolen from cathedral in Sweden
Plus: Joan Jonas show at Haus der Kunst cancelled due to financial difficulties | American Folk Art Museum names Jason T. Busch as executive director | and Antonio Dias (1944–2018)
MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach to head LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art
Plus: Jewish Museum receives $10m and more than 70 artworks from the Barnett Newman Foundation | and Getty Foundation awards grants to improve conservation skills
US appeals court upholds ruling on Nazi-looted Cranachs
Plus: Peter Ainsworth appointed as chair of the Heritage Alliance | Florida’s Norton Museum gets $16m for new wing | and foundations of Roman library uncovered in Cologne
Legal battle continues over Picasso painting at the Met
Plus: AIDS activists stage protest at the Whitney | Historic England celebrates local heroes in new exhibition | VR used to recreate artists’ studios at the State Tretyakov | and recommended reading
Charles Saumarez Smith to leave the RA and join Blain|Southern
Plus: Tuesday Smillie awarded Rose Art Museum residency | Art Gallery of South Australia appoints Rhana Devenport as director | and recommended reading
Jeu de Paume director Marta Gili to step down
Plus: UK high court rules that Giotto painting left Italy unlawfully | and Powerhouse Museum director resigns amid fundraising row
Design Museum criticised for hosting event linked to arms industry
Plus: BRIC appoints Kristina Newman-Scott as president | and Warhol Foundation urges University of Kansas to reinstate artwork
US judge orders return of Persian bas-relief to Iran
Plus: Cleveland Museum of Art establishes conservation centre for Chinese paintings | and record six-month sales period for Christie’s
Exhibitors criticise management of Bahrain’s flagship art fair
Plus: Nan Goldin continues opioid protests | New York dealer finds ‘lost de Koonings’ in storage locker | and recommended reading
Walker Art Center forms Indigenous Public Art Selection Committee
Plus: Anne Olivier Bell (1916–2018) and recommended reading
Tate St Ives among finalists for Stirling Prize 2018
Plus: Regiment museum in Stirling awarded £1m lottery funding | Ancient skulls stolen from church display in Kent | and winners of Write on Art prize announced
Janet Archer resigns as chief executive of Creative Scotland
Plus: Robert Leckie is appointed director of Spike Island | Oxford’s Story Museum receives £1m funding boost | and Inaugural European ArtEast Foundation grants announced
Indian government forms expert panel to address Taj Mahal pollution
Plus: Eric Shiner joins White Cube in New York | Tel Aviv gallery criticised for showing Arab artists without permission | Affordable housing scheme for artists approved in East London | and New York public libraries launch free museum access scheme
Art educators bring claim for unfair dismissal against National Gallery
Plus: Pussy Riot invade pitch after World Cup final | Site Gallery appoints Sharna Jackson new artistic director | National Railway Museum cancels design contest for redevelopment | and recommended reading
MCH Group is launching a new fair in Singapore
Plus: FBI recovers Robert Motherwell painting stolen 40 years ago | Michael Gitlitz appointed executive director of Katonah Museum of Art | and recommended reading
Guelph Treasure case to be heard by a US federal court
Plus: Kathy Noble joins Performa as a curator | Hauser & Wirth hires Christie’s veteran Liberté Nuti | Winners of Dulwich Pavilion 2019 contest announced | and Jacqui Hallum wins the John Moores Painting Prize 2018
Glasgow School of Art to be rebuilt
Plus: Praemium Imperiale art prizes announced | and fire breaks out at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York
Jeremy Wright appointed UK culture secretary
Plus: Daniel Birnbaum leaves Moderna Museet to head VR production company | US Appeals Court rules mostly against artists’ right to resale royalties | and Cheim & Read’s Adam Sheffer to join Pace Gallery
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