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Plus: British art dealer gets prison sentence for grand larceny and fraud | Portuguese authorities seize art from debt-ridden businessman | Europe's tallest artwork set to rise above Belgian motorway | and Wendell Dayton (1938–2019)

Plus: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts receives grant from Netherlands for new centre | Italian lawsuit over $800m estate threatens NYU collection | and recommended reading

Plus: Neil deGrasse Tyson keeps job at American Museum of Natural History after closure of sexual-misconduct investigation | Archaeologists discover temple belonging to sunken ancient city

Plus: Paris heat wave threatens Notre Dame with collapse | Schiele drawing discovered in New York thrift store | Damian Ortega wins inaugural ICA Miami prize for sculpture | and recommended reading

Plus: Nicky Morgan named UK Culture Secretary | Paolo Giuerini reconfirmed as director of Naples museum of archaeology | and Baltimore Museum of Art to establish centre for Matisse studies

Plus: the Netherlands establishes endowment fund at MFA Boston | and Portland Museum of Art awarded $4.6m in lawsuit

Plus: Worcester Art Museum receives $10m donation | and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain Bordeaux appoints new director

Plus: Marisa Merz (1926–2019) | César Pelli (1927–2019) | Palais de Tokyo names Emma Lavigne as president | and recommended reading

Plus: Kurdish artist Zehra Doğan detained in Berlin following protest-performance | Charles Dickens Museum buys back portrait lost for 133 years | and recommended reading

Plus: Notre-Dame reconstruction bill passes into law | Tate declares climate emergency, promising broad reevaluation of practices | and recommended reading

Plus: Two Egyptian pyramids reopen to public | Benin to open museum to house looted artefacts

Plus: Study suggests lard was used in Stonehenge construction | and Frieder Burda (1936–2019)

Plus: Co-chairmen of Paris Biennale vetting committee resign | Tate acquires archive of surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun | and recommended reading

Plus: Judge rules in favour of Agnes Martin authentication committee members | and recommended reading

Plus: David Zwirner to open Paris space, citing Brexit concerns | Himali Singh Soin wins 2019 Frieze Artist Award | New York court rules that Nazi-looted Schiele works will remain with victim’s heirs | and Eberhard Havekost (1967–2019)

Plus: Egypt to sue over Christie’s Tutankhamun bust sale | Open letter opposes destruction of George Washington mural in San Francisco high school | Philip Freelon (1952–2019)

Plus: Pace Gallery closes Beijing outpost | Tania Bruguera to launch investigative journalism initiative in Cuba | and recommended reading

Plus: Douglas Crimp, 1944–2019 | British Museum defends relationship with BP | and recommended reading

Plus: Lobby group Europa Nostra criticises UNESCO’s support of cruise ships in Venice | and recommended reading

Plus: France returns group of 445 ancient stolen artefacts to Pakistan | and Krefeld rejects artist’s heirs claim to Mondrian paintings

Art news daily: 3 July

Plus: Nan Goldin leads protest against Sackler wing at Louvre | Bartomeu Marí named executive director of Museo de Arte de Lima | and Heidi Zuckerman to step down as director of Aspen Art Museum

Plus: Wellcome Collection names Melanie Keen as new director | Designs for extension to New Museum revealed | Aliph fund announces $6.3m for war-zone heritage projects | and recommended reading