Briefing

Rodney McMillian awarded the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize; Theaster Gates announces his latest initiative

Herzog & de Meuron wins competition to build a new museum in Berlin; LACMA receives a USD$25m donation towards its ambitious extension

Sadiq Khan plans a Creative Land Trust to help artists in London; Lawrence Abu Hamdan wins the Nam June Paik award 2016

Petition launched to save the New Art Gallery Walsall; Galerie Perrotin to open a Tokyo space

Yayoi Kusama to be immortalized in wax; Anicka Yi awarded the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize; Edinburgh's Inverleith House to close

Tania Bruguera announces that she is running for president of Cuba; Kader Attia opens an exhibition and events space in Paris

Parisian museum comes under fire for its descriptions of slavery; free art school OSE relocates from London to the coast

Arts Council England increases funding for regional art institutions; CAM St Louis loses its chief curator following a period of public outrage

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and David Adjaye join the Serpentine Galleries board; former students of Tisch School of the Arts Asia file lawsuit

85 Joan Miró works to stay in Portugal following public outcry; Barbican to host the UK's first large-scale show of Jean-Michel Basquiat

David Shrigley's Fourth Plinth commission is unveiled in London; Pompidou set to establish a Brussels outpost

Glenstone to become the largest private museum in the US; Cardi Gallery readies its London space after a two-year renovation

Vincent Fecteau and Mary Reid Kelley are awarded MacArthur genius grants; Ulay victorious in court case against ex-partner Marina Abramović

Hassan Sharif passes away; ICA London appoints a new director

Finland cuts state funding for Guggenheim’s proposed Helsinki museum; Barack Obama to inaugurate new Washington D.C. museum

kamel mennour announces a new space in London; LA's Ibid Gallery relocates to Boyle Heights

Sir Nicholas Serota set to leave Tate after nearly 30 years; plans are unveiled for new arts venue at the World Trade Center site

The Çanakkale Biennial in Turkey is cancelled; the director of London's V&A steps down following Brexit

Unesco takes no action over Venice while thieves break into Anselm Kiefer’s studio

The Antarctic Biennale suffers an early setback, while Peter Doig prevails in bizarre authentication case