Art News Daily

Plus: Members of performance group arrested in Egypt | Sotheby’s contemporary sale rallies spirits | Paddle8 and Auctionata to join forces | Indiana University Art Museum receives $15 million donation | Winners announced for Jerwood/FVU awards

Plus: Sighs of relief at Christie’s Postwar & Contemporary sale | New Museum to double its space ahead of 40th birthday | Simchowitz and Ellis King settle legal dispute with Ibrahim Mahama | Thaddaeus Ropac to take over Mallett space in London | and recommended reading

Plus: Amateur antiques dealer jailed for theft | National Portrait Gallery saves Rejlander photographic album for the nation | Harold Cohen (1928–2016) | and Martin Friedman (1925–2016)

Plus: Van Gogh Museum to offer consultation services | All change at Santa Monica Museum of Art | recommended reading: auction fever in New York

Plus: Poland’s memory wars over Second World War museum | Marseille to host Manifesta 2020 | recommended reading

Plus: Aby Rosen reaches settlement over unpaid tax on works of art | Public art commission censored in Istanbul | Fire damages Rosemarie Trockel’s Cologne home | Victorian Society invites public to nominate UK’s top 10 endangered buildings | Plus recommended reading

Plus: Iranian artist released from prison | Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbarn granted £25,000 ‘lifeline’ | Istanbul’s Moving Image fair cancelled | and recommended reading

Plus: Has the wreck of the HMS Endeavour been discovered? | Baltimore Museum of Art announces new director | Marisol Escobar (1930–2016) | and recommended reading

Plus: Museums under scrutiny over sponsorship arrangements | Recommended weekend reading

Plus: Ai Weiwei to make documentary about refugee crisis | Labour protests continue at Guggenheim | Wim Delvoye plans museum in Iran | Matteo Del Fante announced as new president of Palazzo Strozzi | Armory Show to merge contemporary and modern sections | Recommended reading

Plus: Finaldi: potential for expansion at National Gallery | Romanian culture minister resigns | LACMA receives combined donation of $75 million | 18th century state bed saved from Clandon Park ruins | Recommended reading: Gagosian on Gagosian and how A.I. could kill great art

Plus: St Petersburg City Court set to close case against Pyotr Pavlensky | Long Museum to open third space | Ron Arad announced for St Pancras station commission | Recommended reading: Moscow’s ‘tacky’ public art

Plus: Reports of gallery closures at MoMA scotched | Lisson and Gagosian galleries send work to Tehran | plus other recommended reading

Plus: Culture secretary accused of political bias over National Gallery appointment | Walton Family Foundation donates $10 million to the National Gallery of Art | Unseen Freud self-portrait to go on display at National Portrait Gallery | Istanbul’s Art International Fair postponed | Myrna Ayad appointed as director of Art Dubai

Plus: Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery to be restored | Joint exhibition of Gurlitt collection delayed | Smithsonian American Art Museum director to step down | Shortlist announced for Art Mill international design competition | William Kentridge makes major donation to EYE | Recommended reading: Zaha Hadid’s legacy and a golden flush at the Guggenheim?

Plus: Manchester Museum receives £400,000 towards major redevelopment | Canadian Museum of Inuit Art to close | Recommended reading: censorship in Egypt

Plus: Database reveals 23,000 items missing from French national collections | The Art Newspaper announces change of leadership | Bow Arts Trust receives £600,000 from social investment programme | Miami rejects major Zaha Hadid proposal | Entertainment agency WME | IMG buys stake in Frieze fairs | Mark Bradford to represent US at 2017 Venice Biennale

Plus: Roman villa unearthed in Wiltshire garden | Richard Smith (1931–2016) | Recommended reading

Plus: Tate Modern reveals extension plans | A request to rename the Musée du Quai Branly | Belgium scraps anti-trafficking taskforce | Villa Antonori put up for sale | Malick Sidibé (1935/36–2016)

Plus: Protests in Iran over mooted privatisation of Tehran Art Museum | Artist arrested in Zimbabwe over play casting light on political scandal | Auction house withdraws Dutch Old Master painting from sale over looting fears | Recommended reading: ‘Border Wall’ competition sparks outrage

Plus: FBI offers $25,000 for Springfield Museum’s stolen Warhols | Egyptian authorities move to demolish Townhouse Gallery | Daniel Libeskind reveals plans for Kurdish museum in Irbil | Australia deports Oscar Murillo after artist destroys passport | Two men arrested in connection with murder of Oxford art dealer | Could there be a second ‘lost Caravaggio’ hidden away in France? | and Elmgreen & Dragset appointed curators of 15th Istanbul Biennial

Plus: Singapore’s Pinacothèque de Paris closes doors | Austrian government plans to seize Hitler's birthplace | the weekend’s best news and comment