The team in charge of Barcelona's Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) has clearly decided to forgive and forget after appointing Valentin Roma as its new director 11 years after he was dismissed in a bizarre controversy involving then-Spanish king Juan Carlos.

Roma takes over from Elvira Dyangani Ose who was herself dismissed because museum's leaders felt her appointment to direct the Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial was incompatible with her role in Barcelona.

A former chief curator at MACBA, Roma was dismissed in 2015 after curating a show featuring an explicit sculpture by Austrian artist Ines Doujak that showed the monarch having sex with Bolivian labor leader Domitila Chungara and a dog.

He has spent the last nine years in charge of the Virreina Image Center in the city and previously curated the first Catalan pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

The gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to Washington DC's Phillips Collection - the largest in the museum’s history.

The CEO of the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) said he put a painting damaged in a deliberate attack back on show as a rejection of "silence through violence".

John Guess Jr. said the museum "halted the restoration process" and returned Clarence Heyward's painting, Eden, to the gallery so "the public should see what happens when disagreement gives way to destruction."

A museum spokesperson said they believed the damage to the painting, a slash mark several inches long, was "intentional".

It is believed the painting was damaged on May 21. The museum has filed a police report.

The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague has won its legal case to keep 25 works by the likes of Rembrandt and Jan Steen after they were claimed by their donor's heirs.

The family of the museum's former director Abraham Bredius accused it of breaching the rules of the donation by not having the pictures permanently on display and demanded their return.

But the museum argued it could keep the works, which include Rembrandt's Saul and David, as long as they were not loaned out and had no obligation to keep them on show.

The family said they will appeal against the judgment.

1 - Ronan Day-Lewis makes his solo European debut today at Nino Mier Gallery in Brussels with a show including painting, installation, and video. The son of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and filmmaker Rebecca Miller, he used old Flickr uploads as "a new collective memory bank" for a series of monumental paintings.

2 - Photography by Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Lauren Greenfield and Bruce Weber are among images in an exhibition opening today at the Fahey/Klein gallery in Los Angeles. The show, called Double Take, pairs pictures that share similarities despite being from different eras and locations including a Nik Wheeler image of fellow photographer Don McCullin during the Vietnam War and a Tom Bianchi image from 1970s New York.

3 - Hauser & Wirth's new show, Frank Bowling. Like Water, is the painter's first solo exhibition in East Asia. Opening today in Hong Kong, it brings together work from the 1960s to as recently as 2020 in the case of the monumental There Be Dragons.

4 - Alex Prager's take on the myths surrounding Los Angeles is on show in New York with an exhibition opening today at Lehmann Maupin. It consists of four large-scale photographs and according to the gallery "serves as a prelude" to another solo show in New York next year which coincides with what it says is an as yet unannounced "major museum exhibition".

1 - A $4 million gift from the foundation of businessman Bob Walter will be used to offer free admission to Ohio's Columbus Museum of Art to anyone aged 25 and under from next month. The money will also allow free admission to any adult accompanying a child 16 years or younger, which the museum said would "broaden access and turn first visits into lasting relationships".

2 - The Dependance gallery in Brussels has announced it will shut on June 27 after 23 years in business. A message posted online said its current shows which include work by Alexandra Metcalf will be the last.

3 - The death of photographer Duane Michals has been announced by his gallery DC Moore. In a statement, they said the 94-year-old would be remembered as "one of the most influential photographic innovators of the 20th century". He was known for his images of his adopted home city, New York, as well as a series of portraits he did of Rene Magritte.

4 - Pace Gallery is giving up its London space in Hanover Square to look for a smaller building. CEO Marc Glimcher told the Financial Times the firm would maintain its seven global galleries but would look to operate them with "tight teams" like it does in Seoul, Tokyo and Berlin. The gallery recently cut ties with around 50 artists and announced staff redundancies in a bid to save money.

5 - Around 300 galleries from 48 different countries are expected to take part in this year's Frieze London and Frieze Masters. The 2026 fairs will be in Regent's Park from October 14 to 18.