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7/25/17
Syrian Film Collective Accuses Milan Triennale of Screening Its Works Sans Consent- Merion Estes and Mario Martinez Given 2017 Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Awards
- University of Chicago Library Receives Nearly Five Hundred Vivian Maier Photographs
- Condo Fair to Launch in Mexico City and Shanghai Next Year
- Berkshire Museum Faces Uproar over Sale of Artworks from Collection
7/24/17
Robert Loder (1934–2017)- Fire at French Maritime Museum Destroys Three Paintings from the Louvre
- BAM Names Ashley Clark Senior Programmer of Cinema
- University of Michigan Museum of Art Hires New Director
- Raymond Sackler (1920–2017)
- Istanbul Biennial Announces Artists for Fifteenth Edition
- Lygia Pape’s Daughter Sues LG Electronics for Copyright Infringement
7/21/17
Neil MacGregor, Director of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum, Extends Contract- Bavaria Returns Nazi-Looted Painting to Heirs of Jewish Collector
- Australian Center for the Moving Image Names Paul Bowers Director of Exhibitions and Collections
- Baltimore’s Clayworks Closes Its Doors After Thirty-Seven Years
- House Committee Approves Bill that Continues to Fund NEA and NEH
- Private Museum of Arab Art to Open in Beirut
7/20/17
Centre Pompidou Moves Forward with Launch of Shanghai Outpost- Spanish Police Recover Three Francis Bacon Paintings from 2015 Heist
- Daisuke Tsuda Appointed Artistic Director of Aichi Triennale 2019
- Getty Announces Major Acquisition of Sixteen Master Drawings
- Oklahoma City Museum of Art Names J. Edward Barth Board Chair
- Vandals Attack Nicole Eisenman Work at Skulptur Projekte Münster
- Richard Prince’s Motion to Dismiss Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Is Denied
- Tang Museum Awarded $160,000 in Grants
- NYC Unveils Cultural Plan to Expand and Diversify the Arts
7/19/17
Nazarian Family Gifts CSUN’s Valley Performing Arts Center $17 Million- Biennale of Sydney 2018 Announces Artists and Theme
- Wall Street Journal Sued by Antiquities Dealer Over ISIS Story
- Construction Begins on New Affordable Artist Studios in New York
- Cultural Leaders Fight to Protect Free Movement of Artists Post-Brexit
7/18/17
Off Vendome Closes in New York- Eight Arts Writers Awarded $50,000 Rabkin Prize
- Arts Council England Funds New Sculpture Triennial
- Untitled Art Fair Appoints Manuela Mozo as Director
- Trial Postponed for Bardo Museum Attack That Left At Least Twenty Dead
- Rampa in Istanbul Has Shuttered Its Doors
- Salon Art + Design Fair Announces 2017 Exhibitor List
7/17/17
Agnes Gund Awards Parrish Art Museum $500,000 for New Social Justice Fund- Paris Thunderstorms Damage Several Louvre Masterpieces
- Italian Authorities Confiscate Twenty-One Modigliani Works After Several Confirmed as Fakes
- Wim Wenders Receives Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Raising Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage
- Columbia University Settles Lawsuit over Art Student’s Mattress Performance
7/14/17
Charles McGill (1964–2017)- Turkish Police Arrest Director of Film Featuring President Erdogan at Gunpoint
- Kim Sun-Jung Appointed President of Gwangju Biennale Foundation
- Michael Auping, Chief Curator at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Steps Down
- Mali’s Rencontres de Bamako Biennial Announces Details for Eleventh Edition
- Oregon’s Newspace Center for Photography Closes
- Pierrette Bloch (1928–2017)
7/13/17
Daniel LaRue Johnson (1938–2017)- German Gallery Share Program to Kick Off in September
- University of New Mexico’s Art Museum Names Mary Statzer Curator
- The Bessie Awards Announce 2017 Nominees
- Heirs of Jewish Collector Sue Madrid Museum for Return of Pissarro Painting
7/12/17
Nanne Dekking to Succeed Willem Van Roijen as Chairman of TEFAF- Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Launches Diversity Fellowship
- Christie’s Appoints New Cochairs of Impressionist and Modern Art
- Elizabeth Chodos Named Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Miller Gallery
- Suspects in $4.5 Million Gold Coin Heist Case Arrested
- Denis Johnson Posthumously Awarded Library of Congress Prize
7/11/17
Fashion Designer Agnès B. Reveals Plan to Open Art Foundation in Paris- Ilya Glazunov (1930–2017)
- New York’s Washburn Gallery Leaves Midtown for Chelsea
- New York’s The Shed Appoints Emma Enderby as Curator
- Judge Orders Glafira Rosales to Pay $81 Million to Victims of Knoedler Forgery Scandal
- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Names 2017 Artist as Activist Fellows
- Amid Controversy, Bolshoi Theater Postpones Gay-Themed Ballet About Rudolf Nureyev
- Phillips Auction House Promotes Jean-Paul Engelen to Deputy Chairman of the Americas
- Düsseldorf Museum Pulls Painting that Nazis May Have Looted
- South African Artist Assaulted by Airbnb Host
7/10/17
Dallas’s Aurora Names Curators and Reveals Theme- French Police Destroy Art Installation After Mistaking It for a Cannabis Farm
- Castello di Rivoli Acquires Francesco Federico Cerruti’s $570 Million Collection
- Dia Foundation Expands Its Collection of Asian Art
- Eleventh Kaunas Biennial Announces List of Participating Artists
- More Than One Thousand Artifacts from San Francisco’s Mexican Museum May Be Fake, Report Finds
7/7/17
LACMA Names Guadalupe Rosales as Its First-Ever Instagram Artist in Residence- Professor Resigns from SAIC, Citing a “Toxic Environment”
- Queer|Art Launches New Grant in Support of Lesbian Filmmakers
- Berlin’s Haus am Waldsee Begins $3.3 Million Renovation
- Lala Rukh (1948–2017)
- NYFA Announces 2017 Fellows
- Hobby Lobby Forfeits 5,500 Illicit Iraqi Antiquities and Agrees to Pay $3 Million Fine
- Naseem Khan (1939–2017)
7/6/17
Turkey Condemns German Art Installation Featuring President Erdoğan- Collector Roberto Polo to Donate 7,000 Works to Spain
- New Orleans Museum of Art Acquires Works from Souls Grown Deep Foundation
- ADAA Welcomes Four New Member Galleries
- Hirshhorn Elects Isaac Applbaum as Newest Trustee
- Artists Urge Lincoln Center to Cancel Israel-Backed Play
- Hepworth Wakefield Named Winner of UK’s Museum of the Year Award
7/5/17
José Luis Cuevas (1934–2017)- Sprüth Magers London to Reopen After Eighteen-Month Refurbishment
- Met Museum’s Financial Troubles Delay Exhibition of Leonard Lauder’s Cubist Art Gift
- China Bans Online Portrayals of Homosexuality, Raising Questions for Artists
- Artists Rally Against Venezuelan President in New Wave of Anti-Government Protests
7/4/17
Olu Oguibe Wins Documenta’s Arnold Bode Prize- Photographer Matthias Bruggmann Wins 2017 Prix Elysée
- Anri Sala Selected to Create Sydney’s 2017 Kaldor Public Art Project
- Middle East’s Cultural Sector Fears Repercussions of Qatar Boycott
- Jan Fontein (1927–2017)
7/3/17
China’s New Cybersecurity Law Goes Into Effect Amid Some Apprehension- Collector Pulls Works from Exhibition at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
- Estelle Berg (1940–2017)
- Berlin’s Brücke Museum Announces New Director
6/30/17
Guy Tillim Wins 2017 HCB Award- New Website Compiles Provenance Data for Individual Artworks
- London Launches Citywide Contest to Boost Cultural Initiatives
- Le Corbusier Museum Founder Files Lawsuit Against Zurich’s Culture Minister
- Xavier Douroux (1956–2017)
- Philadelphia Gallery Vox Populi Closes Temporarily Following Building Fire
6/29/17
Canada’s New Remai Modern Museum to Open in October- Terra Foundation for American Art Awards $2.5 Million in Grants to Art Design Chicago
- New Study Reveals Increasing Salaries in Museum Field
- VIA Art Fund Announces 2017 Grant Recipients
- Chicago Launches $1 Million Initiative to Create Public Art
- Arts Council England’s Grant Program Shifts Focus from London to Regions
6/28/17
Hammer Museum Names Erin Christovale Assistant Curator- Family of Franz West Wins Court Battle Over Artist’s Estate
- Norway Abandons Jonas Dahlberg’s Memorial to Victims of Utøya Massacre
- Berlin’s Silberkuppe Gallery Closes
- Russian Artist Arrested for Wearing VR Headset in Moscow
- Condo New York Opens Thursday
6/27/17
Art Gallery of Ontario Appoints Four New Curators- New York’s MoMA Receives $50 Million Gift
- Palais de Tokyo Names Artists for Its First US Exhibition with Expo Chicago 2017
- Shortlist Announced for 2017 Jarman Award
- Arts Council England Grant Saves Arts Space in Walsall
- François Pinault Reveals Plans for New Contemporary Art Museum in Paris
6/26/17
Merryn Schriever Appointed as Director of Bonhams Australia- Judge Orders Exhumation of Salvador Dalí’s Body for Paternity Suit
- German Collector Announces Plans for New Museum in Bavaria
- Anthony Goicolea to Design First LGBTQ Monument Commissioned by New York State
- Julia Joern Leaves David Zwirner Gallery
- Hans Breder (1935–2017)
- Marco Scotini Named Curator of Second Yinchuan Biennale
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