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Plus: Smithsonian sites in Washington, D.C. close due to government shutdown | Venice to introduce new tourist entry fee | Invisible ink drawings discovered on Basquiat work | Sister Wendy Beckett (1930–2018) | and recommended reading

Plus: Ivory Coast requests restitution of 148 artefacts from France | and bill on ivory ban receives Royal Assent to become UK law

Plus: Hashim Sarkis to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2020 | Amale Andraos to design Beirut Museum of Art | and Shortlist for Margaret Tait Award announced

Plus: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to be renamed | Loic Gouzer to leave Christie’s New York | and Vanessa German wins $200,000 Don Tyson Prize

Plus: Dalí lobster telephone acquired by National Galleries of Scotland | Troels Wörsel (1950–2018) | and recommended reading

Plus: Strasbourg Biennale postponed after Christmas market shooting | Subodh Gupta steps down as curator of Goa arts festival over sexual misconduct claims | and recommended reading

Plus: Mario Merz Prize 2019 finalists announced | and Joan Mitchell Foundation announces 2018 grants

Plus: Julie Finch to direct Compton Verney Art Gallery | Leonor Antunes wins Zurich Art Prize 2019 | Anonymous Was a Woman 2018 grants awarded to 10 female artists

Plus: Robin Nicholson named director of Telfair Museums | Update on recovery of objects from National Museum of Brazil | and Tania Bruguera cancels appearance at Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Plus: DRC to seek restitution of objects in Africa Museum in Belgium | and Carol Rhodes (1959–2018)

Plus: ICA LA director Elsa Longhauser to step down | Tania Bruguera and other artists released in Cuba | and recommended reading

Plus: European Court of Human Rights rules that Russian government must pay compensation to Pussy Riot | Pieter Bruegel the Elder may have engraved earliest known Scottish landscape

Plus: Tania Bruguera detained in Cuba | Italian court rules that Getty museum must return ancient statue | Anna Coliva reinstated as director of Galleria Borghese | and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures wins Sotheby’s Prize 

Plus: Sotheby’s chief operating officer Adam Chinn to depart | and Andy Warhol Foundation arts writing grant recipients announced

Plus: Staff members at Whitney Museum demand action over vice chair’s ties to tear gas production | Raqs Media Collective to be artistic director of 2020 Yokohama Triennale | and Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announces two art education funding initiatives

Plus: Andrew Hall wins legal battle over fake Leon Golub paintings | Final audit of Documenta finds bigger budget deficit | Nicola Calderón joins Timothy Taylor Gallery New York | and recommended reading

Plus: Renoir painting stolen from Vienna’s Dorotheum auction house | Ivory Coast and Senegal request the return of artefacts from France | Head of Sotheby’s India takes ‘leave of absence’ following sexual harassment claims | and Nan Goldin awarded The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal

Plus: Daria Martin wins 2018 Film London Jarman Award | Archaeologists authenticate Stone Age rock paintings in Finland | and Adam Lerner to step down as director of MCA Denver

Plus: Banksy works confiscated from exhibition in Brussels | and French court settles dispute over Majorelle trademark

Plus: Irene McAra-McWilliam appointed director of Glasgow School of Art | and recommended reading

Plus: school in Brazilian rainforest is the world’s best new building | Victorian Society criticises high-rise development plan in East London | MAD Architects to design panoramic viewpoint in Rotterdam | Plus recommended reading

Plus: Spike Island wins the Freelands Award 2018 | and Francis Outred resigns as Christie’s head of post-war European art

Plus: Descendant of Jewish art dealers sues Dutch government | Leon and Debra Black donate $40m to MoMA | and Joanna Mytkowska wins Igor Zabel Award

Plus: Macron’s report recommends full restitution of African art in France | $1m grant for arts projects awarded to Coral Springs, Florida | and Ateneum names Marja Sakari as director