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Plus: new appointments at the National Gallery of Ireland and RIBA | Design Miami Paris cancelled amid security fears | Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan museum | Oxford and Cambridge universities agree to give back Benin Bronzes

Plus: Documenta removes artwork at centre of anti-Semitism allegations | Marble head of Hercules found in wreck off Greek island | and a round-up of recent museum appointments and art-world moves

Plus: Smithsonian board votes to return 29 Benin Bronzes | UK places a temporary export bar on £19m Poussin painting | Marina Lambraki-Plaka, the director of the National Gallery in Athens, has died at the age of 83

Plus: the Tate is returning Barry Joule’s Francis Bacon archive | the Ivory Act has now come into effect in the UK | Sasha Suda has been appointed director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art | and a new contemporary art fair is coming to Tokyo

Plus: Charles Darwin’s stolen notebooks returned to Cambridge University | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego reopens | Finland seizes art shipments from Russia worth €42m

Plus: Museums review security protocols after recent  MoMA stabbings | Francis Kéré wins Pritzker Architecture Prize | Frida Escobedo to design Met’s Modern and Contemporary wing | and parliamentary report calls UK’s £120 ‘Festival of Brexit’ a waste of public money

Ukraine’s museums try to protect their collections | director of the Whitworth Art Gallery said to have been asked to resign | Neolithic site uncovered in Jordan | Weltmuseum’s audio guide hacked by activists

The second most expensive purchase the Met has ever made is a stunning Italian bronze – and efforts to keep it in the UK have come to nothing

Plus: Art Basel Hong Kong postponed to May and France to restitute 15 works looted by the Nazis

Plus: The Courtauld Institute and Kings College London announce 10-year ‘strategic partnership’ | Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover (1927–2022) | and a round-up of recent museum appointments