Art News Daily

Plus: Irene McAra-McWilliam appointed director of Glasgow School of Art | and recommended reading

Plus: school in Brazilian rainforest is the world’s best new building | Victorian Society criticises high-rise development plan in East London | MAD Architects to design panoramic viewpoint in Rotterdam | Plus recommended reading

Plus: Spike Island wins the Freelands Award 2018 | and Francis Outred resigns as Christie’s head of post-war European art

Plus: Descendant of Jewish art dealers sues Dutch government | Leon and Debra Black donate $40m to MoMA | and Joanna Mytkowska wins Igor Zabel Award

Plus: Macron’s report recommends full restitution of African art in France | $1m grant for arts projects awarded to Coral Springs, Florida | and Ateneum names Marja Sakari as director

Plus: Easter Islanders to hold talks with British Museum | Gavin Turk arrested at climate change protest | National Trust has £30 million invested in fossil fuels | and recommended reading

Plus: Hockney sold for $90.3m at Christie’s sets new record for living artist | Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam granted bail | Jean Mohr (1925–2018) | and recommended reading

Plus: Kapwani Kiwanga wins 2018 Sobey Art Award | Annie Fletcher appointed director of IMMA | and Everson Museum of Art gets $4.8m fundraising campaign boost

Plus: Pace Gallery announces new ‘partnership’ with Christo | and Stephanie Cristello, Jeff Rhodes and Kathleen Rapp given new positions at Expo Chicago

Plus: Oskar Rabin (1928–2018) | Sandra Lagumina appointed non-executive director of Agence France-Muséums | and Souls Grown Deep Foundation places works at five institutions

Plus: Sondra Perry wins the 2018 Nam June Paik Award | Pérez Art Museum Miami to launch Latin American and Latinx Art Fund | Njideka Akunyili Crosby now represented by David Zwirner Gallery | and college museum exhibition closes after veterans groups complaints

Plus: €660m funding boost for Berlin’s Natural History Museum | Andrea Bayer appointed deputy director for collections at the Met

Plus: New York court orders Sotheby’s to be repaid for fake Parmigianino painting | Figurative painting in cave in Borneo dated to 40,000 years ago | and Dallas Museum of Art receives $4m gift from Beverly and Donald S. Freeman

Plus: Italian populist government to introduce harsher penalties for cultural heritage crimes | WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize 2018 awarded to Agence Christiane Schmuckle-Mollard | and Cannupa Hanska Luger awarded Museum of Arts and Design’s inaugural Burke Prize

Plus: Sadaharu Horio (1939–2018) | and David Hockney receives lifetime achievement award for printmaking

Plus: Sally Tallent appointed Director of New York’s Queens Museum Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 announce shortlist | and Nam June Paik Art Center Prize 2018 awarded to Trevor Paglen

Plus: Sotheby’s reports losses of $27.8m for third quarter of 2018 | Finnish dealers fined and jailed for five-year forgery scam | World’s tallest statue unveiled in India | and recommended reading

Plus: Restitution committee says Stedelijk can keep Kandinsky | and Kimerly Rorschach to retire as director of Seattle Art Museum

Plus: Alfredo Jaar announced as winner of 11th Hiroshima Art Prize | and Venice museums reopen following city’s worst flood in a decade

Plus: Bill Arning resigns as director of Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | and Institut du Monde Arabe receives gift of 1,300 works 

Plus: The National Museum in Damascus has reopened after six years | David Kordansky announces plans to expand his LA gallery | 2018 MAXXI Bulgari Prize awarded to Diego Marcon

Plus: Mary Corse artwork damaged by fire at Dia:Beacon | Hito Steyerl wins 2019 Käthe Kollwitz Prize | and recommended reading

Plus: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation criticised after performance cancellation | and Studio Voltaire in London announces £2.3m capital project

Plus: Norman Foster withdraws from Saudi tech-city project | Museum of the Bible's Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are forgeries | Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev wins Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence