Art News Daily

Plus: NEA chair Jane Chu to step down | Columbia MFA students demand refunds | Hollywood producer sues Gagosian over non-delivery of Koons sculpture | and David Zwirner proposes to ‘subsidise’ small galleries at art fairs

Plus: Director of Galleria Borghese faces trial for absenteeism | Golden leaves stolen from dome of Vienna’s Secession building | Princess Margriet Award for Culture 2018 goes to Forensic Architecture and Borderland | and recommended reading

Plus: Natural History Museum disqualifies award-winning photographer | Initial line-up announced for 2019 Sharjah Biennial | and Galerie Samy Abraham in Paris to close

Plus: Abbas (1944–2018) | Documenta appoints new CEO | Laura Aguilar (1959–2018) | Peter Bläuer retires from Liste art fair | and Bowdoin College Museum of Art receives more than 1,500 artworks

Plus: UAE to finance $50m Mosul reconstruction project | Knight Foundation donates $1m to US museums | Cristian Valsecchi named general manager of Fondazione Prada | and New York dealers challenge antique ivory sales law

Plus: Lindsay Pollock joins Whitney Museum | ‘Selfie monkey’ not eligible to hold photo copyright | and Millicent Fawcett statue unveiled in Parliament Square

Plus: Former MoMA director Richard E. Oldenburg has died | CB1 gallery in Los Angeles to close after artists’ complaints | and recommended reading

Plus: Cache of James Castle drawings discovered in artist’s home | SALT Beyoğlu reopens after two-year hiatus | and Sam Francis’s catalogue raisonné made available online

Plus: Artefacts stolen from Museum of East Asian Art in Bath | Art Institute of Chicago receives $70m in gifts | Artist accuse Los Angeles gallery of not paying them | Statue of 19th-century gynaecologist removed from Central Park

Plus: Max Mara Art Prize for Women awarded to Helen Cammock | Jerry Saltz wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |  and Tate announces plans for new trustee and ticket prices for young visitors

Plus: Joseph Beuys estate obtained by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | London museums in Grenfell Tower tribute discussions | High Museum unveils plans for reinstallation of collection | and recommended reading

Plus: FBI recover stolen Chagall painting | Ellen Salpeter resigns from ICA Miami | Jean de Loisy to curate 2019 Lyon Biennale | and recommended reading

Plus: Gillian Ayres (1930–2018) | Smithsonian governing body approves plans for London collaboration | Berkshire Museum marks first tranche of works for auction | and Outsider Art Fair cancels plans for Basel edition

Plus: Documenta appoints music business executive as interim CEO | Max Uhlig donates entire oeuvre to Saxony’s Cultural Foundation | National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers closes | and NEH awards $18.6m in grants

Plus: Looted Egon Schiele drawings restored to the heirs of original owner | First round of partners and programmes announced by Terra-Art Bridges Initiative | Judge throws out lawsuit against Agnes Martin Authentication Committee | Francis Alÿs wins EYE Art and Film Prize | Ellen Stofan appointed director of Smithsonian Air and Space Museum | and recommended reading

Plus: Jean-Luc Martinez signs on for further three-year term at Louvre | Theaster Gates named inaugural visiting artist at Maine’s Lunder Institute | Brooklyn Museum under fire over hiring of white curator of African art | Three new professorships announced at future Documenta Institute | and Suad Garayeva-Maleki appointed artistic director of Yarat

Plus: Montréal Biennial files for bankruptcy | Justine Ludwig appointed director of Creative Time | and Christopher Scoates to direct Museum of Arts and Design in New York

Plus: Budi Tek reveals plans to form a foundation with LACMA | Stephanie Wiles named director of Yale University Art Gallery | Laura Sillars appointed director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art | Donald Trump signs bill forbidding federal funding of oil portraits of politicians | Em’kal Eyongakpa wins inaugural Henrike Grohs Art Award | and regeneration fund grants £4m towards new museum in Blackpool

Plus: Julia Kristeva accused of Cold War espionage | and Michael Rakowitz commission for fourth plinth unveiled

Plus: Louvre reportedly rejects plans for Mona Lisa tour | Rare annotated copy of Ben Jonson play Epicœne saved for nation | and Nicholas Nixon retires from MassArt following misconduct allegations