Art News Daily

Plus: Anicka Yi wins Hugo Boss Prize | Gallery dedicated to William Blake opens in San Francisco | and Clark Art Institute receives $2 million gift in support of works on paper

Plus: Stolen artefacts ‘gushing’ out of Libya, experts warn | ‘Gigantic’ jade stone discovered in Burma | Southend resumes hunt for Thames Estuary Museum architect | Michael Bloomberg donates $50 million to Boston’s Museum of Science | and UK local authorities encouraged to give museums greater independence online

Plus: Edinburgh's Inverleith House gallery to close due to financial pressures | Knoedler trial: Ann Freedman settles lawsuit with Frank Fertitta | Cuban activist artist Tania Bruguera 'stands for president'

Painting attributed to Parmigianino sent for technical tests | Exhibition dedicated to General Franco provokes outrage in Barcelona | Hitler’s childhood home to be razed | Experts protest exam board’s decision to stop offering Archaeology A-Level

Plus: Sonia Solicari named director of Geffrye Museum | MoMA receives major donation of Latin American art | Sekhemka statue reportedly ‘in USA’ | and recommended reading

Plus: Eugene Rogolsky donates 700 works of art to University of Southern California | French graffiti artist spared prison sentence | and recommended reading

Plus: National Gallery secures ‘unprecedented’ grant from UK government to acquire Pontormo painting | Reiss-Engelhorn Museen wins copyright lawsuit over unauthorised uploads | and Hala Wardé wins competition to design Beirut art museum

Plus: Petition launched to save Stockholm’s Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities | Paris’s Musée Carnavalet to close for restoration until at least 2019 | Activists demand removal of Theodore Roosevelt statue in New York | and Artangel’s Reading Prison show extended due to popular demand

Plus: Cancellation of ‘Garden Bridge’ could cost taxpayer more than £20 million | Chief curator at Contemporary Art Museum St Louis resigns | Shortlist announced for Griffin Art Prize

Plus: Museums Association sets up group to advise on museum closures | Controversy over Dutch Royal Family’s sale of paintings | Programme announced for Fundación Arte in Buenos Aires | Design unveiled for Statue of Liberty Museum

Plus: Former Tisch Asia students file lawsuit against New York University | Portland Art Museum announces Rothko partnership | Caruso St John wins Stirling Prize for Newport Street Gallery

Plus: Arrests in Greece over alleged antiquities smuggling | Local authority posits total funding cut to Lyon’s Musée des Confluences | ICA Miami closes due to Hurricane Matthew | and Tate acquires works at Frieze with WME | IMG Fund

Plus: 3Arts awards $250,000 to 10 Chicago artists | Hauser & Wirth announces worldwide representation of Arshile Gorky Estate | and Sam Gappmayer takes over at John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Plus: Met faces lawsuit over Picasso painting allegedly sold under duress | Activists claim British Museum ‘broke own rules’ over BP sponsorship | David Adjaye and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye join Serpentine board | and recommended reading

Plus: Centre Pompidou to open museum in Brussels | Diane Wilsey remains head of the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | Stolen icon returns to Russia | and recommended reading

Plus: Portuguese government decides to keep Miró works in Porto | Catherine Pégard to stay on as director at Versailles | Durham University and Auckland Castle join up to create £1.6 million research centre for Spanish art | and Tino Sehgal wins 2016 Hans Molfenter Prize

Plus: Neue Gallery reacquires Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s Nude | Antiquities museum opens in Basra | Vladimir Potanin makes major donation of Russian contemporary art to Pompidou Centre | and Daniel Crouch Rare Books to launch New York gallery

Plus: Wim Pijbes quits as director of Voorlinden Museum | Barcelona councillors call for toppling of ‘colonialist’ Columbus statue | Cologne to return work bought by Hildebrand Gurlitt in 1939 | and Pierre Huyghe wins Nasher Prize

Plus : Antiques dealers arrested as ivory seized in New York | Jock Sturges’ Moscow exhibition closes after ‘child pornography’ protests | Civil Rights Museum turns down visit from Trump visit | and recommended reading

Plus: Artist calls for boycott of show at St Louis Contemporary Art Museum | David Attenborough unveils portrait in Leicester’s New Walk Museum | and recommended reading

Plus: Future of Jonas Dahlberg’s Utøya massacre memorial in doubt | Sadiq Khan orders review into Garden Bridge procurement | Fire ravages Stockholm's Royal Institute of Art | and artists among recipients of MacArthur Foundation’s ‘Genius’ grant

Plus: Manuel Rabaté named director of Louvre Abu Dhabi | New impetus for Frank Gehry designed Eisenhower memorial | Neolithic statuette discovered in Turkey | and Roger Hiorns wins 2016 Faena Prize