National Gallery acquires Bellotto masterpiece
Plus: Documenta 14 director responds to far-right politician’s comments on Kassel obelisk | Charlottesville to shroud Confederate statues | and shortlisted plans for Clandon Park restoration revealed
Mass resignation of the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Plus: Shipwrecks given protected status | David Somerset, Duke of Beaufort (1928-2017) | and recommended reading
Malian radical ordered to pay €2.7m for Timbuktu destruction
Plus: National Portrait Gallery acquires 37 portraits of black Britons | Chiara Fumai (1978–2017) | and recommended reading
Donald Trump weighs in on fate of Confederate monuments
Plus: Blanton Museum receives seven Leon Polk Smiths | New York’s Queens Museum in Israel row | Worker strikes cause Barcelona museums to close | and new culture fund for Hull and Humber region
Tudor palace remains discovered in Greenwich
Plus: Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old tombs in Egypt | Design Museum announces Designs of the Year shortlist | Indianapolis Museum of Art campus is renamed | Confederate statues removed in Baltimore | and fears for future of Scotland Yard’s art and antiques unit
North Carolina protesters pull down Confederate statue
Plus: David Roberts to close London gallery and open Somerset sculpture park | Promotions and appointment at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. | and Hockney writes preface for forthcoming Kitaj memoir
Garden Bridge project is officially scrapped
Plus: Stolen de Kooning painting returns to Arizona museum | Yayoi Kusama museum to open in Tokyo | Susan Dackerman is the new director of Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center | and recommended reading
New photography museum to come to London
Plus: Herzog & de Meuron took reduced fees for Tate Switch House | Artist stages graffiti protest outside Twitter offices in Hamburg | and recommended reading
£4m funding boost for Glasgow tea room
Plus: Elmhurst Art Museum appoints John McKinnon as executive director | Works missing from Air India’s £200m art collection | Christie’s sues Delta Airlines for Gerhard Richter painting damage | and French Academy in Rome removes upper age limit for Villa Medici fellows
Presumed lost Giacometti drawings found in antiques shop
Plus: Inaugural Battersea sculpture commission winners announced | Sadiq Khan says £46.6m spent on aborted Garden Bridge will not be recovered | MoMA to auction over 400 photographs at Christie’s | and Henry Wrong, Barbican’s first managing director, dies
Big Ben is the least of the Palace of Westminster’s problems