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Plus: Germany puts €1.9m towards research on colonial-era artefacts | Nabatean carved stones returned to Jordan | and Met curator wins $100,000 Vilcek Prize honouring immigrants in US

Plus: Annabelle Selldorf to design Forbidden City’s visitor centre | Ramiken Gallery awarded inaugural Armory Show prize | and recommended reading

Plus: Elmgreen & Dragset monument vandalised in Berlin | Georgia O’Keeffe Museum buys Ritz Tower painting | and Kimbell Art Museum names new European art curator

Plus: More than 75 New York galleries sued over disability access | and El Museo del Barrio cancels Alejandro Jodorowsky retrospective

Plus: Row over British Museum director’s comments on Elgin Marbles | London’s Royal College of Art launches regeneration programme | and Assyrian sculptures in Scottish mansion sold abroad

Plus: Banksy mural stolen from the Bataclan theatre | Fine Art Group buys the Falcon Group’s art lending division | and Johns Hopkins University to buy Newseum building

Plus: Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins Artes Mundi prize | New Museum workers vote to unionise | Van Gogh’s Sunflowers will no longer leave Amsterdam | and recommended reading

Plus: Tate and Hyundai launch research centre for non-Western art | and John Ashbery’s library donated to Harvard |

Plus: National Museum of Scotland to return Native American skulls | Aaron Fowler wins $10,000 prize from Seattle Art Museum | and Trevor Paglen’s space sculpture hindered by US shutdown

Plus: Stolen Spanish stone carvings recovered in England | Designs for London Centre of Music revealed | Arts Council publishes guide for ‘no deal’ Brexit | and new prize for art history doctorates in France

Plus: Hayward Gallery names Zoe Whitley as senior curator | Lamia al-Gailani (1939–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: American Alliance of Museums announces new museum leadership diversity initiative | UK government pledges £20m culture fund for five English regions | Haifa removes McJesus sculpture after continuing protests | and recommended reading

Plus: MOCA Los Angeles to close Pacific Design Center | and Warhol Foundation announces latest grants

Plus: Global fund Aliph announces its first cultural heritage projects in Iraq and Mali | 'Michelangelo' painting stolen from Belgian church | Bloomberg awards $1m to Tulsa, Oklahoma | and winners of Creative Capital Awards 2019 announced

Plus: Installation featuring Saudi Arabian flag to be relocated away from Ground Zero | Doyle auction house appoints new CEO and president | and Montreal contemporary art foundation announces rebrand

Plus: Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019 shortlist announced | and Sean O’Harrow to direct Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Plus: El Museo del Barrio cancels plans to honour German princess | New Museum workers start process of unionising | and recommended reading

Plus: Robert Kret steps down as director of Georgia O’Keeffe Museum | Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro disbands ministry of culture | French state rejects option to buy work attributed to Caravaggio | and VIA Art Fund announces 2018 grant recipients

Plus: Art dealer Mary Boone cites early-life trauma as reason for tax fraud | US Supreme Court refuses Hungarian restitution case filed by Jewish heirs | and five arts organisations shortlisted for Ampersand Foundation Award

Plus: Nazi-looted painting in Gurlitt collection returned to Jewish heirs | Stedelijk Museum confirms Beatrix Ruf will not return as director | and Artadia and Marciano Art Foundation establish new award for LA artists

Plus: Gaurav Bhatia resigns permanently as managing director of Sotheby’s India | and Ruth Estévez to be senior curator-at-large of Rose Art Museum

Plus: Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum closes in federal shutdown | Warren MacKenzie (1924–2018) | Lauren Wittels named partner of Luhring Augustine Gallery | and recommended reading

Plus: Artworks seized from residence of former president of Argentina | Nicola L. (1937–2018)