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Rachel Whiteread wins the Whitechapel Gallery’s Art Icon award
Plus: Art dealer Mary Boone cites early-life trauma as reason for tax fraud | US Supreme Court refuses Hungarian restitution case filed by Jewish heirs | and five arts organisations shortlisted for Ampersand Foundation Award
Marc-Olivier Wahler resigns as director of MSU Broad Art Museum
Plus: Nazi-looted painting in Gurlitt collection returned to Jewish heirs | Stedelijk Museum confirms Beatrix Ruf will not return as director | and Artadia and Marciano Art Foundation establish new award for LA artists
Temple of ‘Flayed Lord’ discovered in Mexico
Plus: Gaurav Bhatia resigns permanently as managing director of Sotheby’s India | and Ruth Estévez to be senior curator-at-large of Rose Art Museum
Las Vegas casino buys 60-foot-high sculpture by Damien Hirst
Plus: Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum closes in federal shutdown | Warren MacKenzie (1924–2018) | Lauren Wittels named partner of Luhring Augustine Gallery | and recommended reading
National Gallery of Art closes to public in Washington, D.C.
Plus: Artworks seized from residence of former president of Argentina | Nicola L. (1937–2018)
Uffizi Gallery asks Germany to return Nazi-looted painting
Plus: Smithsonian sites in Washington, D.C. close due to government shutdown | Venice to introduce new tourist entry fee | Invisible ink drawings discovered on Basquiat work | Sister Wendy Beckett (1930–2018) | and recommended reading
Renzo Piano designs for Genoa bridge revealed
Plus: Ivory Coast requests restitution of 148 artefacts from France | and bill on ivory ban receives Royal Assent to become UK law
Tania Bruguera files lawsuit against Cuban government
Plus: Hashim Sarkis to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2020 | Amale Andraos to design Beirut Museum of Art | and Shortlist for Margaret Tait Award announced
Excavations begin at newly discovered ancient Egyptian tomb
Plus: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to be renamed | Loic Gouzer to leave Christie’s New York | and Vanessa German wins $200,000 Don Tyson Prize
New York performing arts centre receives $89m grant
Plus: Dalí lobster telephone acquired by National Galleries of Scotland | Troels Wörsel (1950–2018) | and recommended reading
Anthea Hartig to direct Smithsonian Museum of American History
Plus: Strasbourg Biennale postponed after Christmas market shooting | Subodh Gupta steps down as curator of Goa arts festival over sexual misconduct claims | and recommended reading
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo appoints a new president
Plus: Mario Merz Prize 2019 finalists announced | and Joan Mitchell Foundation announces 2018 grants
Kaywin Feldman named first female director of National Gallery of Art in Washington
Plus: Julie Finch to direct Compton Verney Art Gallery | Leonor Antunes wins Zurich Art Prize 2019 | Anonymous Was a Woman 2018 grants awarded to 10 female artists
Easter Island mayor suggests Moai statue should stay in Britain
Plus: Robin Nicholson named director of Telfair Museums | Update on recovery of objects from National Museum of Brazil | and Tania Bruguera cancels appearance at Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Activist group stages protest at Whitney Museum
Plus: DRC to seek restitution of objects in Africa Museum in Belgium | and Carol Rhodes (1959–2018)
Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018)
Plus: ICA LA director Elsa Longhauser to step down | Tania Bruguera and other artists released in Cuba | and recommended reading
Anish Kapoor reaches out-of-court settlement with the NRA
Plus: European Court of Human Rights rules that Russian government must pay compensation to Pussy Riot | Pieter Bruegel the Elder may have engraved earliest known Scottish landscape
Charlotte Prodger wins 2018 Turner Prize for iPhone films
Plus: Tania Bruguera detained in Cuba | Italian court rules that Getty museum must return ancient statue | Anna Coliva reinstated as director of Galleria Borghese | and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures wins Sotheby’s Prize
Whitney Museum director responds to concerns over vice chair’s business ties
Plus: Sotheby’s chief operating officer Adam Chinn to depart | and Andy Warhol Foundation arts writing grant recipients announced
Several Paris museums close amid Yellow Vest protests
Plus: Staff members at Whitney Museum demand action over vice chair’s ties to tear gas production | Raqs Media Collective to be artistic director of 2020 Yokohama Triennale | and Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announces two art education funding initiatives
Robert Morris (1931–2018)
Plus: Andrew Hall wins legal battle over fake Leon Golub paintings | Final audit of Documenta finds bigger budget deficit | Nicola Calderón joins Timothy Taylor Gallery New York | and recommended reading
Photograph long thought to be of Van Gogh is artist’s brother
Plus: Renoir painting stolen from Vienna’s Dorotheum auction house | Ivory Coast and Senegal request the return of artefacts from France | Head of Sotheby’s India takes ‘leave of absence’ following sexual harassment claims | and Nan Goldin awarded The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal
Berkshire Museum completes controversial deaccessioning sales
Plus: Daria Martin wins 2018 Film London Jarman Award | Archaeologists authenticate Stone Age rock paintings in Finland | and Adam Lerner to step down as director of MCA Denver
Hauser & Wirth opens non-profit institute for artists’ archives
Plus: Banksy works confiscated from exhibition in Brussels | and French court settles dispute over Majorelle trademark
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