Art News Daily

Plus: The Art Newspaper publishes international visitor figures survey for 2017 | Centre Pompidou announces architects for Brussels satellite | Petition urges Hertfordshire Council to reconsider selling public art collection | Former Studio Museum building to be demolished | Andreas Rumbler to join Lévy Gorvy | and recommended reading

Plus: Lottery grant boosts multimillion redevelopment of the Museum of Oxford | Inaugural Riga Biennial announces artist list | Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize awarded | and recommended reading

Plus: Ancient Olmec statues returned to Mexico | Civil rights leader to be honoured with US Capitol statue | V&A removes advert for volunteer curatorial position | and Australian Senate publishes report on Burrup Peninsula rock art

Plus: Rio de Janeiro’s Modern Art Museum plans to sell Pollock | and Hauser & Wirth announces representation of Amy Sherald

Plus: New art fair to launch in Taipei | and group organises against Memphis College of Art closure

Plus: Shenzhen Biennale fires curator over sexual misconduct allegations | Gallerist donates James Joyce holdings to Morgan Library | Sotheby’s to bring first Old Master painting to Middle East | Kairos prize awarded to Frankfurt director | and recommended reading

Plus: Cooper Union votes to reintroduce free tuition | Convictions in Russian avant-garde forgery case | French court dismisses case on Facebook ‘censorship’ | National Museum of Scotland to put entire collection online | and recommended reading

Plus: Art Basel and UBS publish global art market report | UCL Culture restructuring proposal draws criticism | Adel Abdessemed withdraws video of burning chickens from exhibition in Lyon | and Michael Morgner wins inaugural Schmidt-Rottluff Art Prize

Plus: MOCA fires Helen Molesworth as chief curator | Michelangelo Pistoletto receives Roswitha Haftmann Prize | Waddington Custot to represent Jedd Novatt

Plus: Hubert de Givenchy (1927—2018) | Open letter condemns dismissal of Bordeaux director | New Rotterdam exhibition space to honour Dutch emigrants | Guggenheim Museum to acquire controversial Xu Bing work

Plus: Dresden receives gift of 1,200 contemporary works | Director of Museum Morsbroich to step down | Hauser + Wirth to represent Zeng Fanzhi | and recommended reading

Plus: Maria Inés Rodriguez faces dismissal from Bordeaux’s musée d’art contemporain | French high court rules in favour of Guggenheim Foundation in long running dispute | Lower Manhattan Council appoints Lili Chopra director of cultural programs, grants, and services | and recommended reading

Plus: BAE withdraws from Great Exhibition of the North | US Holocaust Museum revokes human rights award from Aung San Suu Kyi | Artist-in-residence at Tate quits over ‘invisible inequalities’ | Balkrishna Doshi awarded Pritzker Prize for Architecture

Plus: Rhode Island School of Design refutes claim to Picasso painting  | Art Newspaper launches French edition | and Yoko Ott named executive director of Portland’s Yale Union art centre

Plus: Mondrian heirs claim ownership of four paintings in German museum | Eva Franch i Gilabert elected director of Architectural Association | French culture minister hints that Mona Lisa could be set for tour | and Trump nominates John Parrish Peede to chair NEH

Plus: Ten charged in $50million fraud involving a painting by Picasso | Max Beckmann painting to remain at Städel Museum | French court annuls sentence for electrician in possession of missing Picasso works | National Portrait Gallery announces new painting prize | Andrew Schoelkopf appointed president of Art Dealers Association of America | and recommended reading

Plus: Kurimanzutto Gallery to open space in New York | National Gallery of Victoria discharges security firm | and Pamela Joyner named chair of Tate Americas Foundation

Plus: Over 200 inaccuracies in Avedon biography, foundation claims | Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller receive honour | and Creative Scotland chief promises review of funding processes

Plus: Church of Holy Sepulchre reopens | Getulio Alviani (1939–2018) | Lost Monet discovered in Louvre storage | and Michelle Kuo is appointed a curator at MoMA

Plus: Arcadia Missa relocates to Soho | Imprisoned artist goes on trial in Equatorial Guinea today | Expert supports the authentication of a previously unknown Dalí

Plus: Outsider Art Fair launches edition in Basel | Stolen Degas discovered near Paris | Proposed Jeff Koons sculpture finds French supporters | and recommended reading

Plus: US court prevents bomb victims from seizing Iranian artefacts | Sou Fujimoto wins competition to build Swiss learning centre | Experimenter announces second space in Kolkata | and recommended reading

Plus: Frieze to launch in LA next year | Madrid art fair removes photographs of Catalan politicians | Sherri Geldin to retire as director of Wexner Center

Plus: Petition calls for reinstatement of Beatrix Ruf at Stedelijk | Ghent returns controversial artworks to the Dieleghem Foundation | Campaigners urge Tate to ‘sever ties’ with Anthony d’Offay | and Liverpool Waters scheme due for review