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This week in art news: New Orleans city officials consider inviting artists to appropriate the city's Confederate monuments, dismal queues plague Banksy's Dismaland, and avant-garde band Laibach became the first Western act to perform in North Korea.
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This week in art news: the FBI revealed that the suspects in the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist are dead, the Knoedler Gallery settled three of the 10 lawsuits stemming from its forgery fiasco, and Patti Smith's 2010 memoir Just Kids will become a television series.
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This week in art news: the FBI released security footage of the night before the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, a seven-year-old boy got stuck in a work of public art, and the Ashmolean Museum acquired a trove of illustrated correspondence between Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Helen Mary Gaskel
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This week in art news: The Rijksmuseum acquired a rare medieval chain, the UK wavered over issuing a visa for Ai Weiwei, and Peter Brant sold his ownership of Art in America.
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This week in art news: an Irma Stern painting that was being used as a noticeboard is found in a London flat, Rome's Trevi Fountain is crawling with rats, and Chinese authorities issued Ai Weiwei a new passport.
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This week in art news: George Baselitz threatened to withdraw all loans of his work from German museums, an artist was left dangling naked from a tree when a video piece went awry, and the Rutgers Geology Museum restored its specimen of an 11-foot giant spider crab.
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This week in art news: Egyptian citizens railed against an ugly statue of Nefertiti, Random International's "Rain Room" will travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn acquired the Art Workers' Coalition's iconic "Q. And babies?" poster.
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This week in art news: the Acropolis starts accepting credit cards amid Greek cash crisis, 8 million animal mummies found in Egyptian catacombs, and Marilyn Monroe's grave marker sells at auction for 100 times its pre-sale estimate.
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This week in art news: a number of rock paintings were documented for the first time in Colombia's Chiribiquete national park, David Shrigley designed a mascot for the Partick Thistle football club, and New York's Stonewall Inn received landmark status.
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This week in art news: The British Library provided free online access to all 239 issues of feminist zine Spare Rib (1972–93), Vice hired Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova as a columnist, and Israel's first museum devoted to contemporary Arab art opened.
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This week in art news: CBC News host Evan Solomon was fired for secretly brokering art sales, MCA Australia cancelled its Marina Abramović retrospective, and the world's earliest known cello went on display at the Met Museum.
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This week in art news: Art Spiegelman withdrew his cover for the New Statesman, the Frick Collection abandoned its expansion plans, and Glenn Lowry's $2.1 million salary was scrutinized in the wake of MoMA's staff protests.