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Plus: Nottingham Castle Trust goes into liquidation | National Gallery of Canada lays off four senior staff members | Kathleen Soriano named new chair of Art UK board

Plus: German government introduces €200 Kulturpass scheme | American couple accused of smuggling in Guatemala | Divya Mehra wins Sobey Award in Canada

Plus: museum directors denounce Just Stop Oil protests | Paul Allen collection sells for more than $1.5bn | Brian O’Doherty (1928–2022) | World’s oldest Canaanite sentence discovered on head-lice comb

Plus: Subhash Kapoor sentenced to ten years in prison | National Palace Museum in Taipei admits to breaking objects worth £66m | Fire breaks out at the American Museum of Natural History | Hirshhorn Museum reveals architects for renovation

Plus: Pierre Soulages (1919–2022) | Marc Spiegler to step down from Art Basel, with Noah Horowitz the fair’s new global director | Arts Council England delays investment announcement | Climate protestors target more museums

Plus: more looted objects connected to art dealer Subhash Kapoor returned to India | first known map of the night sky thought to have been discovered | Lowry painting acquired by Salford museum | Winner of Marcel Duchamp prize and shortlist for Deutsche Börse prize announced

Plus: climate protestors arrested at National Gallery | restitution loophole in the new Charities Act likely to be closed | Angus Trumble (1964–2022) | this year’s RIBA Stirling prize announced

Plus: Museums have realised that the Charities Act of February 2022 has granted them new powers over restitution |  Bard College establishes endowment of $50m for the study of Indigenous art | Phillips teams up with Beijing auction-house Yongle | British art dealer Robert Newland pleads guilty to conspiring with Inigo Philbrick to commit fraud

Plus: Dimitrios Pandermalis (1940–2022) | and the Prado investigates its holdings for works seized during the Spanish Civil War

The United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch served as patron of numerous arts organisations

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