Art News Daily

Plus: Petworth House paintings to be restored | and division mounts over ICOM museum definition

Plus: David H. Koch (1940–2019) | National Portrait Gallery puts portrait of Jane Seymour on display | and recommended reading

Plus: Di Rosa Center urged to change deaccession plans | and Simon Preston appointed senior director at Pace

Plus: Kiluanji Kia Henda chosen for 1–54 courtyard commission | and UK-based curator loses appeal against prison sentence in Iran

Plus: Eighteenth-century Scottish castle goes up for sale | Rebecca Wei resigns as Christie’s Asia chairman | and UK export bar placed on early Millais painting

Plus: Santiago Calatrava fined €86,000 over Venice bridge | Betti-Sue Hertz appointed director of Wallach Art Gallery | and recommended reading

Plus: Istanbul Biennial announces new venue in former warehouse | and recommended reading

Plus: US tariff on Chinese art and antiquities to take effect in September | and National Gallery reveals underdrawings beneath Leonardo painting

Plus: Central Park monument to women’s suffrage redesigned | Pace Gallery launches art tech platform | and Daniela Rivera wins DeCordova’s Rappaport Prize

Plus: Sadiq Khan backs calls for slavery museum in London | Artists request removal of work from Aichi Triennale | and UK government places export bar on £28m Monet

Plus: Nancy Reddin Kienholz (1943-2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Monique Barbier-Mueller (1929–2019) | Mead Art Museum receives anonymous gift of 170 contemporary works

Plus: Gordon Rintoul will step down as NMS director | and Jamaican minister calls for restitution of artefacts in British Museum collection

Plus: Kamal Boullata (1942–2019) | Aichi Triennale artists sign statement calling for restoration of censorship exhibition | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures director resigns

Plus: Pérez Art Museum acquires 46 works of vernacular American art | and recommended reading

Plus: Child ‘thrown’ from Tate Modern in critical but stable condition | Aspen Institute announces centre dedicated to Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer | and Don Suggs (1945–2019)

Plus: medieval bridge dismantled in Belgium despite protests | Baltimore Museum of Art pledges year of exhibitions dedicated to women artists | and 16th-century painting back on display at London’s National Gallery after seven-year conservation project

Plus: art dealer Joseph Nahmad could face jail time after pleading guilty to assault charges | Whitney Museum promotes two curators | and recommended reading

Plus: British art dealer gets prison sentence for grand larceny and fraud | Portuguese authorities seize art from debt-ridden businessman | Europe's tallest artwork set to rise above Belgian motorway | and Wendell Dayton (1938–2019)

Plus: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts receives grant from Netherlands for new centre | Italian lawsuit over $800m estate threatens NYU collection | and recommended reading

Plus: Neil deGrasse Tyson keeps job at American Museum of Natural History after closure of sexual-misconduct investigation | Archaeologists discover temple belonging to sunken ancient city

Plus: Paris heat wave threatens Notre Dame with collapse | Schiele drawing discovered in New York thrift store | Damian Ortega wins inaugural ICA Miami prize for sculpture | and recommended reading

Plus: Nicky Morgan named UK Culture Secretary | Paolo Giuerini reconfirmed as director of Naples museum of archaeology | and Baltimore Museum of Art to establish centre for Matisse studies

Plus: the Netherlands establishes endowment fund at MFA Boston | and Portland Museum of Art awarded $4.6m in lawsuit