Art News Daily

Plus: Vancouver Art Gallery workers reach agreement with museum | High court dismisses Neo Bankside residents’ case against Tate | and Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019)

Plus: Nan Goldin leads anti-opioid protest at New York’s Met and Guggenheim museums | and Baltimore Museum of Art receives $3.5m to endow chief curator position

Plus: Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio win Royal Academy Architecture Prize | Nuremberg prosecutor seizes 63 suspected Hitler forgeries | and Oliver Barker to direct Cape Ann Museum in Massachusetts

Plus: Vancouver Art Gallery staff go on strike over wages | Philipp Kaiser joins Marian Goodman Gallery | and recommended reading

Plus: Venice implements tax for day tourists | and Jessica Martinez to direct Cornell University’s art museum

Plus: Germany puts €1.9m towards research on colonial-era artefacts | Nabatean carved stones returned to Jordan | and Met curator wins $100,000 Vilcek Prize honouring immigrants in US

Plus: Annabelle Selldorf to design Forbidden City’s visitor centre | Ramiken Gallery awarded inaugural Armory Show prize | and recommended reading

Plus: Elmgreen & Dragset monument vandalised in Berlin | Georgia O’Keeffe Museum buys Ritz Tower painting | and Kimbell Art Museum names new European art curator

Plus: More than 75 New York galleries sued over disability access | and El Museo del Barrio cancels Alejandro Jodorowsky retrospective

Plus: Row over British Museum director’s comments on Elgin Marbles | London’s Royal College of Art launches regeneration programme | and Assyrian sculptures in Scottish mansion sold abroad

Plus: Banksy mural stolen from the Bataclan theatre | Fine Art Group buys the Falcon Group’s art lending division | and Johns Hopkins University to buy Newseum building

Plus: Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins Artes Mundi prize | New Museum workers vote to unionise | Van Gogh’s Sunflowers will no longer leave Amsterdam | and recommended reading

Plus: Tate and Hyundai launch research centre for non-Western art | and John Ashbery’s library donated to Harvard |

Plus: National Museum of Scotland to return Native American skulls | Aaron Fowler wins $10,000 prize from Seattle Art Museum | and Trevor Paglen’s space sculpture hindered by US shutdown

Plus: Stolen Spanish stone carvings recovered in England | Designs for London Centre of Music revealed | Arts Council publishes guide for ‘no deal’ Brexit | and new prize for art history doctorates in France

Plus: Hayward Gallery names Zoe Whitley as senior curator | Lamia al-Gailani (1939–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: American Alliance of Museums announces new museum leadership diversity initiative | UK government pledges £20m culture fund for five English regions | Haifa removes McJesus sculpture after continuing protests | and recommended reading

Plus: MOCA Los Angeles to close Pacific Design Center | and Warhol Foundation announces latest grants

Plus: Global fund Aliph announces its first cultural heritage projects in Iraq and Mali | 'Michelangelo' painting stolen from Belgian church | Bloomberg awards $1m to Tulsa, Oklahoma | and winners of Creative Capital Awards 2019 announced

Plus: Installation featuring Saudi Arabian flag to be relocated away from Ground Zero | Doyle auction house appoints new CEO and president | and Montreal contemporary art foundation announces rebrand

Plus: Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019 shortlist announced | and Sean O’Harrow to direct Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Plus: El Museo del Barrio cancels plans to honour German princess | New Museum workers start process of unionising | and recommended reading

Plus: Robert Kret steps down as director of Georgia O’Keeffe Museum | Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro disbands ministry of culture | French state rejects option to buy work attributed to Caravaggio | and VIA Art Fund announces 2018 grant recipients