Art News Daily

Plus: Met appoints Huma Bhabha for its summer roof-garden commission | LACMA’s Japanese art pavilion closes for two-year renovation | Yellowstone Art Museum names Brian W. Knicely executive director | and recommended reading

Plus: Manchester Art Gallery takes down Waterhouse painting | Art world figures sign open letter in support of Laura Raicovich | and Iran court sentences art dealer to 27 years in prison

Plus: Ancient Syrian temple damaged by air strikes | Minnesota Museum of American Art commences major expansion project | and Lacma’s expansion plans approved by LA council

Plus: Queens Museum director Laura Raicovich resigns | Ghent museum closes Russian art exhibition | and UK government places export bar on Turner painting

Plus: Pace to open new space in Geneva | Robert Pincus-Witten (1935–2018) | Digital art museum to open in Tokyo | and recommended reading

Plus: João Ribas appointed director of Portugal’s Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art | Trump offered functioning gold toilet instead of Van Gogh painting | Museum devoted to disputed islands opens in Tokyo | and recommended reading

Plus: Maggie Appleton elected new president of Museums Association | Christo sculpture set for installation in Hyde Park | Prospect New Orleans names Nick Stillman executive director | and Dutch Museum removes bust copy of its founder

Plus: Simon Baker appointed director of the Maison Européene de la Photographie | LACMA plans to open satellites in South LA | Westminster rejects revised plans for Margaret Thatcher statue | and Brian O’Doherty to receive Freedom of Roscommon

Plus: Berlin museums return eleven works to Jewish collector’s heirs | William B. Jordan (1940–2018) | Zuza Golińska wins inaugural ArtePrize 2017 | and Jakarta maritime museum reopens

Plus: Stedelijk Museum cancels Ettore Sottsass exhibition | Sotheby’s to auction Titian painting sold to Charles I’s plumber | TEFAF cancels annual art-market report | and recommended reading

Plus: Report recommends transforming Toronto’s Old City Hall into museum | Frank Lloyd Wright building destroyed in Montana | Hamburg museum pulls Bruce Weber retrospective | Dennis Oppenheim sculpture destroyed in Busan | and recommended reading

Plus: Claire and James Hyman gift 125 photographs to Yale Center for British Art |  Anish Kapoor donates $1m prize money to refugee charities | Anderson Ranch Arts Center director steps down | and Jonny Yarker becomes named partner of Lowell Libson gallery

Plus: Leeds to host ‘Year of Culture’ celebrations despite exclusion from European programme | Aquitaine town demands restitution of bust from the Met | and Joseph Seipel named interim director of Richmond’s Institute for Contemporary Art

Plus: Two new drawings confirmed as by Van Gogh | Markus Lüpertz sculpture stolen from Düsseldorf foundry | and Simon de Pury wins suit for $10m Gaugin painting commission

Plus: Historic Environment Scotland issues climate-change risk warning for numerous sites | New York releases report on future of city’s monuments | Open letter questions works on loan to Ghent’s Museum of Fine Arts | and Isabella Stewart Gardner museum extends $10m reward for stolen art

Plus: Rhizome awarded $1m grant by Mellon Foundation | Michael Ellis appointed UK culture minister | Justin Maciejewski appointed director general of National Army Museum | and recommended reading

Plus: Letter raises concern over future of John Clare archive | ‘Modigliani’ paintings seized in Genoa are declared fakes | Philadelphia Museum of Art gets 24 new works from Souls Grown Deep Foundation | and David Zwirner plans new $50m Renzo Piano-designed space in New York

Plus: La Salle University's president defends decision to deaccession | MoMA receives major gift of Latin American art | Taft Museum of Art receives $5m gift | Scottish museums receive £700,000 in development funding | and Stephen Reily appointed director of Louisville’s Speed Art Museum

Plus: Kynaston McShine (1935-2018) | Morgan Library & Museum receives $5m conservation and restoration grant | Belfast MAC receives £275,000 in emergency public funding | and US court orders release of Sotheby’s documents in Rybolovlev lawsuit

Plus: Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn may leave present site | DCMS places export bar on Guardi Venice scene | Bruce Halle (1930-2018) | and recommended reading

Plus: King Abdulaziz Center World Culture moves closer to full opening | Hartwig Fischer makes first visit to Iran | Manhattan Children’s Museum completes purchase of prospective new venue | and recommended reading

Plus: Met museum will charge admission for out-of-state visitors | Thomas Roma is accused of sexual misconduct | Massachusetts AGO’s Berkshire Museum inquiry will be done by end of January | UCLA art department appoints Andrea Fraser as chair | and National Museums Liverpool director retires

Plus: Betty Woodman (1930–2018) | La Salle University plans to sell works from its art collection | Lahore Biennale confirms March opening date | Museums Association calls for ivory ban exemption for UK museums | Thorsten Sadowsky is appointed director of Salzburg’s Museum der Moderne

Plus: Investigators recover stolen Hans Hofmann works | British Museum acquires Joseph Anton Koch drawing | Susan Moldenhauer retires as director of University of Wyoming Art Museum | and recommended reading