Art News Daily

Plus: Worcester Art Museum receives $10m donation | and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain Bordeaux appoints new director

Plus: Marisa Merz (1926–2019) | César Pelli (1927–2019) | Palais de Tokyo names Emma Lavigne as president | and recommended reading

Plus: Kurdish artist Zehra Doğan detained in Berlin following protest-performance | Charles Dickens Museum buys back portrait lost for 133 years | and recommended reading

Plus: Notre-Dame reconstruction bill passes into law | Tate declares climate emergency, promising broad reevaluation of practices | and recommended reading

Plus: Two Egyptian pyramids reopen to public | Benin to open museum to house looted artefacts

Plus: Study suggests lard was used in Stonehenge construction | and Frieder Burda (1936–2019)

Plus: Co-chairmen of Paris Biennale vetting committee resign | Tate acquires archive of surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun | and recommended reading

Plus: Judge rules in favour of Agnes Martin authentication committee members | and recommended reading

Plus: David Zwirner to open Paris space, citing Brexit concerns | Himali Singh Soin wins 2019 Frieze Artist Award | New York court rules that Nazi-looted Schiele works will remain with victim’s heirs | and Eberhard Havekost (1967–2019)

Plus: Egypt to sue over Christie’s Tutankhamun bust sale | Open letter opposes destruction of George Washington mural in San Francisco high school | Philip Freelon (1952–2019)

Plus: Pace Gallery closes Beijing outpost | Tania Bruguera to launch investigative journalism initiative in Cuba | and recommended reading

Plus: Douglas Crimp, 1944–2019 | British Museum defends relationship with BP | and recommended reading

Plus: Lobby group Europa Nostra criticises UNESCO’s support of cruise ships in Venice | and recommended reading

Plus: France returns group of 445 ancient stolen artefacts to Pakistan | and Krefeld rejects artist’s heirs claim to Mondrian paintings

Art news daily: 3 July

Plus: Nan Goldin leads protest against Sackler wing at Louvre | Bartomeu Marí named executive director of Museo de Arte de Lima | and Heidi Zuckerman to step down as director of Aspen Art Museum

Plus: Wellcome Collection names Melanie Keen as new director | Designs for extension to New Museum revealed | Aliph fund announces $6.3m for war-zone heritage projects | and recommended reading

Plus: Goodman Gallery names Jo Stella-Sawicka as London director | and Paris Photo to launch fair in New York in 2020

Plus: Sotheby’s must face Rybolovlev lawsuit | Arrest warrant issued for dealer Angela Gulbenkian

Plus: Medieval Scottish town receives £1.2m regeneration fund | and collector Agnes Gund signs letter supporting wealth tax

Plus: Berlin museums appeal to US Supreme Court over Guelph Treasure | Gagosian appoints Artsy co-founder as adviser | and recommended reading

Plus: Survey finds front-of-house staff in UK museums feel undervalued | Poster museum opens in New York | Illinois community college invests millions in expanded museum | and recommended reading

Plus: Whitney Museum senior curator Donna De Salvo resigns | Olafur Eliasson to illuminate Arc de Triomphe | and results of new survey weigh up salaries in visual arts