[rmrector]

I see animatedkeyart.gif, animatedfanart.gif and so forth appearing on my file system folders beside the movies, eventhough I set "Artwork Download Configuration" to "Kodi cache only" for all media types. I would expect to see no downloaded images at all here.

This propably has to do with the new KyraDB options for animatedposter, animatedkeyart and animatedfanart - which I totally use because they are awesome

Animated artwork only works if it is downloaded locally, so Artwork Beef downloads it if selected.
 

I run Kodi Leia 18.5.

I'd like to remove all MovieSets artwork, so that the 'No art' Poster displays for collections in the UI.
I'd also like to set that selection/choice as Default for NEW sets/collections.

at

 https://kodi.wiki/view/Movie_sets#Movie_Set_Artwork
  "v18 introduces scraping of Movie Set artwork. v19 will allow scanning local Movie Set artwork."


Does AB _currently_ support the 'No art' selection/default?  If so, how's it set/exec'd?

No. This should be a possibility later in v19.