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The Headlines
LEGAL AFFAIRS.  The man accused of stealing three big-name artworks from Greece’s  National Gallery  is now out of jail and wearing an electronic monitoring device as he  awaits a potential trial , the  National Herald  reports. The suspect was  arrested last year  and reportedly said that he took works by  Picasso ,  Mondrian , and  Caccia   in 2012 because of his “passion for art.” (One bit of evidence: He had the Twitter handle  ArtFreak , according to police.) Officials are still investigating and deciding whether to pursue a trial. In other crime news, three men in London  pleaded not guilty  to trying to sell a seven-figure, 15th-century Ming Dynasty vase stolen from the  Museum of Far Eastern Art  in Geneva,  Law360  reports, and six teens allegedly  smashed a stolen car  into an art space in Melbourne, Australia, damaging artworks, the  Age  reports.
THE FREE-THINKING BELGIAN ARCHITECT LUCIEN KROLL   has died ,  Dezeen  reports. He was 95. Kroll and his wife,  Simone Kroll , started  Atelier Kroll  in 1958, and made their name by emphasizing close collaboration with the people who would actually utilize their designs. For a campus extension of the  University of Louvain  in Belgium, for instance, they received input from students and made buildings with movable walls. In 2021, the couple were given the  Brussels Architecture Prize ‘s lifetime achievement award. A  statement accompanying that honor reads , in part: “Systematically drawn to complex situations, conflicts to be resolved and causes to be defended, Simone and Lucien Kroll never chose the easy path.”
The Digest
A major Orlando-area foundation said that it will no longer loan its collection of 18th- and 19th-century American paintings to the  Orlando Museum of Art , which was recently raided by the  F.B.I.  amid an investigation into disputed  Jean-Michel Basquiat  paintings it was exhibiting. Some OMA patrons are also said to be shifting their support to the nearby  Rollins Museum of Art .  [The New York Times]
President Biden  appointed 11 to the  National Museum and Library Services Board , including  Cameron Kitchin , the director of the  Cincinnati Art Museum , and  Monica Ramirez-Montagut , the director of the  Parrish Art Museum  in Water Mill, New York.  [Press Release/White House]
Kamoya Kimeu , a revered octogenarian fossil hunter from Kenya whose discoveries helped expand researchers’ understanding of early human history, has died. Perhaps Kimeu’s most important find was an almost completely intact 1.6 million-year-old juvenile Homo erectus.  [The New York Times]
The  U.S. National Park Service  is giving $2 million in grants to 20 museums and nine tribes to support efforts to return human remains and objects to Indigenous peoples.  [The Art Newspaper]
Journalist  Hilarie M. Sheets  looked at the ongoing debates about how to manage artist  Donald Judd ’s sites—and legacy—in Marfa, Texas. Speaking of the  Chinati Foundation , artist  Christopher Wool , a former trustee, said, “The board turned its back on deep institutional knowledge and instead insisted that Chinati be governed under a corporate model simply because that was their experience.”  [The New York Times]
The Kicker
HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CRYPTO CROWN.  In June,  Christie’s  NFT rainmaker  Noah Davis  announced that he was joining  Yuga Labs , the creators of the  Bored Ape Yacht Club  and the home of  CryptoPunks . In  an interview  with the  Observer , he recalled watching  Beeple ’s  Everydays  NFT, which he helped bring to the block at Christie’s,   go for $69.3 million . “I was totally shocked and a bit terrified,” Davis said. “I knew that my career had just taken a sharp, sharp turn. Immediately the pressure was on. There’s an old adage in the auction world: ‘You’re only as good as your last sale.’ ”  [The Creators/Observer]