Art News Daily

Plus: Conservative culture minister attacks Labour’s arts manifesto | David Hurn donates his archive to the National Museum of Wales | and Hal Foster to give 2018 A.W. Mellon Lectures

Plus: Museums join forces to digitise collections | Estorick director awarded Italy’s top honour | and Cincinnati Art Museum receives gift of $12m

Plus: Mies van der Rohe Award goes to ‘heroic yet ordinary’ housing block redevelopment | Lost Camden Town Group painting discovered | and shortlist announced for John Ruskin Prize

Plus: Anne Imhof awarded Golden Lion at Venice | Luis A. Croquer appointed director of Rose Art Museum | ELEMENTAL wins commission to design Qatar’s Art Mill project | and recommended reading

Plus: Ancient Egyptian tomb discovered in Dahshur | Los Angeles planning department approves Lucas Museum development | and recommended reading

Plus: White House curator William Allman to retire | Louvre Abu Dhabi tipped to open in November | Thomas W. Gaehtgens to retire from Getty Research Institute in 2018 | and Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker appointed director and CEO of Biennale of Sydney

Plus: Hundreds protest arts funding cuts in San Diego | Tamara Winikoff stands down as director of NAVA | Diamond encrusted tiara stolen from Karlsruhe museum

Plus: Gallo-Roman era necropolis discovered in Pas-de-Calais | National Gallery of Canada receives major gift | Sotheby’s launches $250,000 award for museum sector innovation | Cécile Debray to direct Musée de l’Orangerie

Plus: Tracey Emin and Lehmann Maupin part company | Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève named European Museum of the Year | and recommended reading

Plus: MFA Boston settles lawsuit over porcelain figures | Pyotr Pavlensky granted asylum in France | and recommended reading

Plus: Hong Kong’s June 4th Museum to reopen | Martin Clark named director of Camden Arts Centre | Tate Modern extension to be named in honour of Len Blavatnik | and Rod Hebden appointed interim director of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery Trust

Plus: Police say terrorist suspect planned to target art collective | Alex Katz painting stolen from Munich gallery | and Dan Byers appointed director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Plus: Orlan and Kader Attia speak out against Marine Le Pen | Cornelia Parker named official artist of 2017 general election | Vito Acconci (1940-2017) | and recommended reading

Plus: Iraqi forces capture ancient city of Hatra from ISIS | Works of art worth €27m stolen in northern Italy | Shortlist revealed for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award | and recommended reading

Plus: Two acquitted in Brett Whiteley forgery case | Jean Pigozzi plans foundation for contemporary African art | and World Monuments Fund launches Instagram initiative to protect modern buildings

Plus: MFA Boston in censorship dispute with Instagram | Marisol estate bequeathed to Albright-Knox Gallery | and Lindsay Pollock steps down as editor of Art in America

Plus: Painting looted by Nazis to be auctioned despite protests | LAXART founder to open production centre in Hollywood | and global online art sales grow by 15 per cent

Plus: Missing Festival of Britain sculpture identified in hotel garden | NEA report reveals economic impact of arts in all 50 states | Claire Doherty appointed director of Arnolfini | and recommended reading

Plus: National Gallery of Denmark scammed by fraudsters | Director of Swindon Museum project resigns | and Peggy Guggenheim’s heirs accuse Guggenheim Foundation of ignoring her wishes

Plus: Court rules that Yves Bouvier cannot be sued in Singapore | Marc Porter appointed chairman of Christie’s Americas | Ancient ruins discovered in Iran | and Alistair Burtenshaw appointed director of Watts Gallery Trust

Plus: Concerns over planned Academy Museum in LA | Ai Weiwei criticises Hong Kong after HSBC bank account refusal | Artists’ Pension Trust withdraws 18 lots from Sotheby’s | Getty Museum evacuated | Barkley L. Hendricks (1945–2017)

Plus: Musée d’Orsay accused of discrimination | Warhol Foundation files pre-emptive lawsuit over ‘Prince’ series dispute | and Robert Ryman donates 21 works to Dia Art Foundation