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Plus: Mark Weiss reaches $4.2m settlement with Sotheby’s over disputed Frans Hals; and Art Institute of Chicago postpones exhibition of Mimbres pottery

Plus: Kochi-Muziris Biennale drops investigation into alleged sexual misconduct of co-founder | New report reveals art institutions have half the exhibition budget of science museums | and Frick announces four new trustees

Plus: Norway’s Kon-Tiki museum to return Easter Island artefacts | Latinx activists issue open letter to El Museo del Barrio | Erdogan announces plan to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque | Getty Trust announces $5m endowment grant to Courtauld Institute of Art | and recommended reading

Plus: Contractor accuse Kochi-Muziris Biennale of non-payment | and Algeria defers participation in Venice Biennale

Plus: Sackler-owned Purdue Pharma reaches $270m settlement with Oklahoma | German panel calls for return of Hitler’s Bellotto paintings to Jewish heirs | MoMA PS1 settles with curator alleging gender, pregnancy and caregiver discrimination | Tate Modern overtakes British Museum as UK’s top attraction | and Dallas Museum of Art receives major gifts for Latin American art

Plus: Italy agrees to repatriate 796 cultural artefacts to China | and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council announces arts centre on Governors Island

Plus: EU will allow UK art shippers into Europe without permits until end of year | and Decolonize This Place leads second protest at Whitney Museum

Plus: Van Gogh at Wadsworth Atheneum authenticated | US files suit to return Nazi-looted painting to Ukraine | Artory acquires and makes public Auction Club database | and recommended reading

Plus: Harvard University sued for ownership of slave daguerrotypes | and Monika Szewczyk to direct De Appel Center in Amsterdam

US Supreme Court will not hear case over National Gallery’s Matisse | Rose Hilton (1931–2019) | Kehinde Wiley announces new artist residency in Senegal

$2.8m of Met admissions revenues to go to 175 New York arts organisations | Trump’s 2020 budget proposal plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts | Lawsuit seeks return of Chagall sold to three London dealers by Ezra Chowaiki

Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) | Signac painting identified as seventh Nazi-looted work in Gurlitt collection | and recommended reading

Plus: Sheela Gowda awarded Maria Lassnig Prize 2019 | Lee Wen (1957–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Artists Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh recipients of Sharjah Biennial Prize | Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala to curate 13th Gwangju Biennale | Elizabeth Glassman resigns from Terra Foundation for American Art | Outset Partners award grant to The Whitworth and Van Abbemuseum

Plus: Leonor Antunes to represent Portugal at Venice Biennale 2019 | Collection of fugitive billionaire Nirav Modi to be auctioned | and Bob and Roberta Smith sends letter of protest to Hertfordshire council

Plus: Hiroshi Sugimoto to redesign Hirshhorn sculpture garden

Plus: Jorge M. Perez donates $1.5m to Reina Sofia | Robert Maguire (1931–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Don Nice (1932–2019) | Art Basel and UBS publish global art market report | and recommended reading

Plus: Venice Biennale releases list of artists | and funding granted for Hepworth sculpture in Hertfordshire

Plus: Blain Southern to open New York gallery | ArtCenter/South Florida announces plans for new $30m home | Todd Williamson wins Pollock Prize for Creativity

Plus: Arata Isozaki wins Pritzker Architecture Prize | Zeitz MOCAA appoints Koyo Kouoh as new executive director | Wim Pijbes named global chairman of vetting at TEFAF | and Lauren Halsey wins Frieze Art Award 2019

Plus: MOCA Cleveland to abolish admission fees | National Army Museum to return lock of Tewodros II’s hair to Ethiopia | Hank Willis Thomas to design MLK memorial in Boston | and recommended reading

Plus: Masterpiece Fair to open in Hong Kong with Fine Art Asia | Painting attributed to Caravaggio to be auctioned in June | Hon Chi Fun (1922–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Michael Cohen claims Trump used ‘fake bidder’ to purchase $60,000 portrait of himself | Rothko Chapel to close temporarily for restoration | Performance art festival Block Universe expands to Berlin