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Plus: Franz West’s family win court battle over artist’s estate | Survey suggests that 98 per cent of Australians ‘engage with the arts’ | and George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art gets the go-ahead

Plus: Rome metro construction unearths 3rd-century ruins | Julia Joern to leave David Zwirner gallery | Stolen Belfast painting recovered in Chicago | and Merryn Schriever appointed director of Bonhams Australia

Plus: Antony Gormley demands ‘vandalised’ Crosby beach sculptures be cleaned | Sunday Painter gallery to move to Vauxhall | and recommended reading

Plus: Syrian refugees to be trained to restore damaged heritage sites | Thai soldiers censor exhibition at Bangkok gallery | and Erin B. Coe to leave Hyde Collection for Palmer Museum

Plus: Ei Arakawa work stolen from Skulptur Projekte Münster | Mass resignations at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | Kassel to build permanent Documenta institute | and Sylvie Patry to return to Musée d’Orsay

Plus: IMMA director Sarah Glennie to step down | $12m worth of art reported stolen from Queens storage facility | and known forger arrested on suspicion of resuming counterfeit operation

Plus: John Glen now responsible for arts and heritage at DCMS | Kevin Jennings appointed president of Tenement Museum | Sotheby’s Europe appoints Jans Prasens as managing director | and recommended reading

Plus: 119 Latin American colonial artworks donated to five museums | San Francisco’s $50 million Treasure Island ‘Arts Master Plan’ approved | Picasso painting among $1.7 billion of assets claimed for seizure in 1MDB case | and recommended reading

Plus: Getty returns ancient marble sculpture to Italy | Noguchi Museum director Jenny Dixon to retire