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Plus: Maria Inés Rodriguez faces dismissal from Bordeaux’s musée d’art contemporain | French high court rules in favour of Guggenheim Foundation in long running dispute | Lower Manhattan Council appoints Lili Chopra director of cultural programs, grants, and services | and recommended reading

Plus: BAE withdraws from Great Exhibition of the North | US Holocaust Museum revokes human rights award from Aung San Suu Kyi | Artist-in-residence at Tate quits over ‘invisible inequalities’ | Balkrishna Doshi awarded Pritzker Prize for Architecture

Plus: Rhode Island School of Design refutes claim to Picasso painting  | Art Newspaper launches French edition | and Yoko Ott named executive director of Portland’s Yale Union art centre

Plus: Mondrian heirs claim ownership of four paintings in German museum | Eva Franch i Gilabert elected director of Architectural Association | French culture minister hints that Mona Lisa could be set for tour | and Trump nominates John Parrish Peede to chair NEH

Plus: Ten charged in $50million fraud involving a painting by Picasso | Max Beckmann painting to remain at Städel Museum | French court annuls sentence for electrician in possession of missing Picasso works | National Portrait Gallery announces new painting prize | Andrew Schoelkopf appointed president of Art Dealers Association of America | and recommended reading

Plus: Kurimanzutto Gallery to open space in New York | National Gallery of Victoria discharges security firm | and Pamela Joyner named chair of Tate Americas Foundation

Plus: Over 200 inaccuracies in Avedon biography, foundation claims | Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller receive honour | and Creative Scotland chief promises review of funding processes

Plus: Church of Holy Sepulchre reopens | Getulio Alviani (1939–2018) | Lost Monet discovered in Louvre storage | and Michelle Kuo is appointed a curator at MoMA

Plus: Arcadia Missa relocates to Soho | Imprisoned artist goes on trial in Equatorial Guinea today | Expert supports the authentication of a previously unknown Dalí

Plus: Outsider Art Fair launches edition in Basel | Stolen Degas discovered near Paris | Proposed Jeff Koons sculpture finds French supporters | and recommended reading

Plus: US court prevents bomb victims from seizing Iranian artefacts | Sou Fujimoto wins competition to build Swiss learning centre | Experimenter announces second space in Kolkata | and recommended reading

Plus: Frieze to launch in LA next year | Madrid art fair removes photographs of Catalan politicians | Sherri Geldin to retire as director of Wexner Center

Plus: Petition calls for reinstatement of Beatrix Ruf at Stedelijk | Ghent returns controversial artworks to the Dieleghem Foundation | Campaigners urge Tate to ‘sever ties’ with Anthony d’Offay | and Liverpool Waters scheme due for review

Plus: Peter Gorschlüter appointed director of Museum Folkwang | Man charged for stealing part of ancient Chinese sculpture | and Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947–2018)

Plus: National Portrait Gallery closes for fashion show | Scans reveal hidden landscape beneath Picasso painting | Finland’s National Gallery releases collections online | and recommended reading

Plus: Prussian Cultural Foundation calls for guidelines on restitution of colonial objects | Long-lost Klimt drawing rediscovered | West Virginia resident admits to fraud in connection with Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft | and recommended reading

Plus: Investigation criticises conduct of Queens Museum ex-director | Aaron I. Fleischman endows curatorial position at the Met | Jef Geys (1934–2018) | and Hirshhorn postpones projection following Florida shooting

Plus: France returns three Joachim Patinir paintings to heirs of dispossessed Jewish collectors | NADA takes in 16 new members | Feitler family donates $5m to Smart Museum of Art | and Met’s Michelangelo show attracts more than 700,000 visitors

Plus: Italian extreme-right party attacks Turin museum’s discount for Arabic speakers | Leni Riefenstahl estate donated to Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation | and grafitti artists awarded $6.7 million after works are destroyed

Plus: Grand Palais to close for renovations from December 2020 | Kawamura Museum of Art announces plan to sell holdings | Harry ‘Hunk’ Anderson (1922–2018) | and recommended reading

Plus: UK government promises crackdown on unpaid arts internships | Frida Escobedo to design this year’s Serpentine pavilion | and recommended reading

Plus: Picasso’s Actor will stay in Met museum collection | Export bar placed on album of Julia Margaret Cameron photographs | Amy Sherald wins 2018 David C. Driskell Prize | and initial designs for £1.6bn Stonehenge tunnel released

Plus: Simon Schama leads call to save Europe’s historic synagogues | Tate awarded historic research grant from Andrew Mellon Foundation | Selldorf Architects to spearhead reinstallation of collection at the High Museum of Art | and Catherine Hutin-Blay plans new Picasso museum in Provence

Plus: Ivory trade investigator found murdered in Nairobi | Mark Grotjahn declines MOCA honour | Halifax removes statue of colonial founder | Brett Littman named director of Noguchi Museum | and recommended reading