Briefing

Stockholm’s Magasin III to open Israel space; Hayward name senior curators; Prada Foundation opens in Shanghai

Beatrix Ruf resigns as Stedelijk director over alleged conflicts of interest; Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to paint the Obamas

Alistair Hudson appointed director of Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth; Tate St Ives reopens; Kader Attia wins Joan Miró Prize

Beijing’s UCCA sold to investors; anti-Columbus Day tour descends on American Museum of Natural History; David Geffen's USD$150 million gift to LACMA

Contemporary Art Society and Frieze Tate Fund acquisitions at Frieze London; protests over MAM São Paulo performance

Lis Rhodes and Nottingham Contemporary awarded Freelands Prize; Susanne Pfeffer named director of MMK Frankfurt

Police end Volksbühne occupation in Berlin; Thomas Dane to open a space in Naples

Guggenheim pull pieces from Chinese art show after animal rights protests; Berlin’s Volksbühne occupied; vandalism at Skulptur Projekte Münster

Mexico City Gallery Weekend postponed following earthquake; Hauser & Wirth to open new gallery in Hong Kong

Documenta curatorial team respond to financial mismanagement report; Gwangju Biennale announces 2018 theme

Queer art exhibition in Brazil shut down; Micky Schubert closes; Pierre Bergé dies at 86

Opening date set for Louvre Abu Dhabi; London’s Carroll/Fletcher closes; Kate Millett dies at 82

Haegue Yang awarded 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize; poet John Ashbery dies at 90; Edinburgh’s Inverleith House saved

Miranda July curates interfaith charity shop; Trevor Paglen wants to launch world’s first space sculpture; Rashid Rana quits Lahore Biennale

Calls to release Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov; documenta 14 cancels Berardi piece; Village Voice ends print edition

Far-right politician attacks documenta work; US President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigns; Queens Museum backtracks over Israel

Yayoi Kusama to open her own museum; Confederate monuments removed in Baltimore; David Roberts Art Foundation to leave London

‘Trumpy the Rat’ mocks US president; artists evicted from Beijing’s Caochangdi; Latin American galleries launch cooperative model in LA

Pussy Riot members detained; Pope.L launches ‘Flint Water Project’; Ghetto Biennale participating artists announced

Former V&A director Martin Roth has died; Montreal Biennale struggles with debt; National Academy artists defend Dana Schutz