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Plus: Experts suggest Botticelli ‘copy’ at National Museum Cardiff could be real | German parliament approves new €364m budget for Berlin museum | and Safani gallery files lawsuit to avoid returning ancient artefact to Italy

Plus: Met Museum announces bequest of $80m and 375 works from Jayne Wrightsman | Rio Art Museum could close due to funding delays | and Open Society Foundations pledges $15m to aid repatriation of African objects

Plus: Hurley Building in Boston may be demolished | and Connaissance des Arts bids for stake in two French fairs

Plus: Iraq’s pavilion at Venice Biennale closes in solidarity with youth protests | Gillian Jagger (1930-2019) | and Creative United release Future of the Art Market report 

Plus: National Gallery in London launches fundraising appeal to buy Orazio Gentileschi painting | Arts Council England criticised for leaving Paolozzi sculpture at building site | and Sotheby’s Prize goes to two Brazilian exhibitions of Indigenous art

Plus: Los Angeles police recover $800,000 of stolen lithographs | first archaeological evidence of prehistoric hunting traps discovered in Mexico | Sally Dixon (1932–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Marciano Art Foundation says it has ‘no present plans to reopen’ | Japanese embassy removes support for Vienna exhibition | former Stedelijk director Beatrix Ruf heads to Moscow’s Garage Museum | and Victor Obsatz (1925–2019)

Plus: Pat Martin named as winner of Taylor Wessing prize | Marciano Art Foundation lays off 60 staff members amid workers’ attempts to unionise | and editor-in-chief of British Vogue to present Turner Prize 2019 in Margate

Plus: UK government invests £10m in Cultural Protection Fund | Gallerists Graham Southern and Harry Blain end partnership | and Royal West of England Academy announces funding boost

Plus: Los Angeles County Museum of Art receives $4.6m funding boost at annual gala | and Monika Baer and Natascha Sadr Haghighian receive Hannah Höch awards

Plus: Italian Old Master forger appeals against arrest warrant and transfer to French courts | David Rubenstein donates $10m to build Jefferson Memorial Museum | and recommended reading

Plus: Fire destroys World Heritage Site of Shuri Castle in Japan | Phil Collins withdraws from MoMA PS1 show in support of prison divestment campaign | and Sandra Jackson-Dumont to direct Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

Plus: Pakistani authorities criticised for removing works addressing police brutality from Karachi Biennial | London’s Parasol Unit closes | and Getty Center closes following California wildfires

Plus: World Monument Fund announces 25 endangered sites

Plus: Sotheby’s appoints Charles F. Stewart as chief executive officer | Ancient cave paintings attributed to Neanderthals may have been misdated | Hugo Crosthwaite wins National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.’s triennial portrait prize

Plus: TeamLab to open galleries in Shanghai and Macao | Crowds scale Uluru Rock in Australia before ban | and recommended reading

Plus: FBI recovers Nazi-looted painting from Arkell Museum | Art organisations in Beirut close amid protests | and Karen Rifas wins Michael Richards award

Plus: Huntington Library appoints chief curator of American Art | Artcurial opens premises in Morocco| Francis Alÿs wins Whitechapel Gallery’s Art Icon award | Foundation dedicated to light art to launch in Berlin | and inaugural Helsinki Biennial announces artist list

Plus: Contemporary Istanbul chairman apologises for defending Turkish invasion of Syria | Pew Center awards more than $8.4m in grants | and Junya Ishigami wins inaugural Obel Prize for architecture

Plus: Ed Clark (1926–2019) | Polly Staple appointed director of Tate’s collection for British Art | Oxford professor alleged to have sold papyrus fragments | and unnamed art dealer arrested in Berlin

Plus: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive receive bequest of African American art | Protestors target MoMA trustee with ties to Puerto Rican debt crisis | and recommended reading

Plus: Brooklyn Museum offers Bacon Pope at Sotheby’s | and Carlos Celdran (1972–2019)

Plus: Stefan Edlis (1925–2019) | Arthur Jafa named as winner of Prix International d’Art Contemporain | thief steals $20,000 Salvador Dalí etching from San Francisco gallery | and E.A. Carmean, Jr. (1945–2019)

Plus: Anti-Columbus Day protestors gather at Metropolitan Museum of Art | and Enda Bowe named as recipient of Zurich Portrait Prize