Anna Coliva, the director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome, has been reinstated after a public outcry over her suspension for alleged gym visits while clocked in at work. “I am happy with this agreement,” Coliva told our Italian sister newspaper, Il Giornale dell’Arte. “I have worked with the ministry for 30 years. Now I can return to work without the anguish of the past months, even if some bitterness remains for everything that happened.” (more…)

The Dia Art Foundation has acquired 155 works by the Minimalist artist Charlotte Posenenske from four series she created toward the end of her artistic career. “It is rare to have an opportunity to bring a single artist’s work into our collection in such volume,” Jessica Morgan, the director of Dia Art Foundation, said in a statement. “This major acquisition exemplifies Dia’s unique commitment to sustained engagement with an artist’s practice.” (more…)

Artist Tania Bruguera and Bienal de La Habana organizers Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Yanelys Nuñez were arrested Monday for planning a sit-in at the Ministry of Culture in Havana, protesting a recent state decision in Cuba to allow the government wider ability to censor artwork in the nation. “The new laws restrict the creativity of the Cuban people and criminalize independently produced art, limiting the ability to determine who can be an artist to a state institution,” the group said in a recent statement. (more…)

A federal jury in New Hampshire has ruled that a former college professor and her son defrauded Wall Street investor Andrew J. Hall by selling him a series of fake paintings they claimed were by Leon Golub. “I am even happier for Leon Golub and his legacy that was being impaired by this whole business,” says Hall. “I hope it’s cleared the air.” (more…)

The UK government has blocked the export of a JMW Turner painting while a buyer is sought to keep it in the UK, the Guardian reports. “Turner is one of Britain’s greatest ever artists, whose studies of British life still resonate with the public today, says arts minister Michael Ellis. “It has so much significance for artistic and historical reasons that it is right that we do all we can to save this masterpiece for the benefit of the nation.” (more…)

Whitney Director Adam Weinberg has responded to the calls to oust vice chair of the museum’s board Warren B. Kanders, a businessman who owns Safariland, a company that manufactures tear gas canisters and other products that have been used against asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border, opening the floor to discussion on the museum’s path forward. “This ‘space’ is not one I determine as director but something that we fashion by mutual consent and shared commitment on all levels and in many ways,” he says. (more…)

Adam Chinn will leave Sotheby’s at the end of the year, with two new officers taking over in his place. “Sotheby’s is pleased to announce the appointment of John Cahill to the role of Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer, and Ken Citron to the role of Executive Vice President, Operations & Chief Transformation Officer,” the auction house said in a statement. “The two new positions assume the previous role of Sotheby’s Chief Operating Officer held by Adam Chinn, who will be leaving the company at the end of the year. Cahill and Citron will join Sotheby’s in January, working closely with the Company’s leadership around the globe and reporting directly to Tad Smith, Sotheby’s CEO.” (more…)

Painter Alex Katz gets a profile in FT this week, as he reflects on his continued output and his relentless studio practice. “I’m fairly detached socially now. This is a real endgame,” he tells me, laughing. “I’m 91, for Chrissakes, and I’m cranking them out.” (more…)

Untitled San Francisco has unveiled its 55 exhibitor list for next year’s fair, featuring galleries from 16 Cities.“For our third edition of Untitled Art, San Francisco we continue to grow the presence of international galleries,” says Manuela Mozo, executive director of Untitled, Art. “The range of emerging to established galleries will present dynamic works that reflect global representation of the art world.” (more…)

Artist Ryan McNamara is interviewed in New York Magazine this week, as he opens a new show downtown and reflects on his recent practice. “I think it’s a little ridiculous right now that any of us are supposed to be thinking about one thing,” he says. “You know? I think there’s this formal artist thing where you’re supposed to have this easily recognizable idea that you’re presenting to the world. And this is just not that easily identifiable. That’s kind of like being a queer person. You’re at brunch with your family and then you’re at the sex club.”

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Collectors Leon and Debra Black have donated $40 million to MoMA for the construction of the Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center. “As a lifelong lover of film,” Mr. Black said in a statement, “my family and I are honored to have our name associated with the Film Center of this great institution.” (more…)

Marianne Boesky Gallery and Paula Cooper will share representation of artist Jennifer Barlett, showing her work this year at Art Basel Miami Beach and scheduling a show for the artist next year. “I admire Jennifer’s ambition and her courage to constantly challenge herself and her audience through painting,” Boesky said in a statement. “She began her career as a rare female minimalist painter during the 1970s and has maintained an ever-evolving practice. Her most recent works continue to showcase her unbound curiosity and ability as a painter—something that is markedly difficult to find. Her work deserves much greater visibility.”

Koji Inoue will join Hauser & Wirth as international senior director of postwar and contemporary art newt summer, Art News reports. “We have always successfully combined activities across the primary and secondary markets, the historical and the new,” says president Iwan Wirth. “A core principle of our approach is that a strong 20th century program contextualizes the art of today, and the art of the present re-contextualizes the art of the past. It’s a full circle, and we look forward to tracing it in many interesting ways with a dedicated space for historical exhibitions at our 69th Street gallery.” (more…)

The New York Times traces the lives of dealers Benjamin and Nathan Katz, the sales their artworks to Nazi officials, and the lawsuit filed by the Katz family to reclaim it. “The Dutch have a vested interest in keeping this art, the United States only has a vested interest in what’s fair,” said Joel Androphy, the lawyer for Katz heir, Bruce Berg, who filed the lawsuit in the states. (more…)

Artists Phyllida Barlow and Anna Maria Maiolino are interviewed in the New York Times this week, covering their time in New York, their work, and their interests in other modes of art. “I think all artists are political because they put out into the world their emotional response, however intellectualized it is,” Barlow says. “They put out into the world an opinion about being alive, and that is political.” (more…)

Damien Hirst’s installation of 14 immense statues depicting gestating fetuses outside a Qatar Hospital is now up. “You know culturally, it’s the first naked sculpture in the Middle East,” the artist said. “It’s very brave.” (more…)

Arshile Gorky will come to Venice next year, opening his first Italian retrospective at the Ca’ Pesaro museum of modern art. “What we can see from our perspective now, and what this retrospective survey seeks to demonstrate,” says co-curator Edith Devaney, “is that Gorky’s artistic voice can be detected from the very start—even when he appears to be immersed in an interrogation of the work of others.” (more…)

A study on UK arts and diversity has found a substantial barrier caused by class in the nation, Arts Professional notes. “Language, attitudes and the prevailing ‘excellence’ narrative in the arts can be seen as divisive in terms of engaging a broader audience in arts,” the report reads. (more…)

The Guardian has an interview this week with artist Nick Cave, as he opens a commanding show of new work and reflects on the violent landscape of modern America, and how work like his Soundsuits address some of these issues. “You are liberated: it hides gender, race, class – so you’re forced to look at something without judgment,” he says. “It’s about getting outside of yourself and surrendering to this other.” (more…)

The Swiss Institute has elected three new members to its board: Monique Burger, John Garcia, and Florian Gutzwiller, Artforum reports. “I am immensely grateful for the continuing support we have been receiving as we create the very first long-term home for SI after more than three decades,” says chair Maja Hoffmann. (more…)

A piece in Art Newspaper looks at the recent trend toward auction guarantees, and the damage some say it’s causing to larger art market health. “Guarantees have the potential to be the next big art-market scandal, if they are not carefully managed,” says Harry Smith, the executive chairman and managing director of the London-based art advisory firm Gurr Johns. “We seem to have one every 20 years, so maybe we’re due for another. And most crises come out of conflicts of interest.” (more…)

A prank by a Romanian theater group led many in Europe to believe a Picasso stolen from the Rotterdam Kunsthal in 2013 had been found under a tree.  “We never assumed this would be easy, but wanted to find out at which point in the process things would falter, with whom and why,” a statement by the theater group read. “The work is one of the storylines of a performance, which as a whole focuses on the value of truth. What is real and what is not?” (more…)

MassMoCA will add another decade to the run-time of its iconic Sol LeWitt wall-drawing show, Art Newspaper reports. They will now be exhibited until 2043. (more…)

Glenn Lowry will remain at the helm of MoMA through 2025, the NYT reports.  “There is no better leader with whom we can expand upon MoMA’s success,” Museum Board president Ronnie Heyman said this week. (more…)