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Plus: RIAS secretary and treasurer Neil Baxter quits | North Carolina Museum of Art director Lawrence J. Wheeler announces retirement | Berkshire Museum collections committee member resigns over planned sale | and multiple clients sue New York dealer Ezra Chowaiki for fraud

Plus: The Met receives $80m gift from the Irving family | City of Kassel will cover Documenta’s financial deficit | Darsie Alexander is appointed chief curator of the Jewish Museum | and Art for Justice makes its first round of grants

Plus: Düsseldorf state museum cancels Max Stern exhibition | 2017 Taylor Wessing prize goes to portrait of 16-year-old migrant | Edvard Munch Art Award goes to Kerstin Brätsch | Laura Owens responds to anti-gentrification protests | and Laura Copelin is appointed executive director of Ballroom Marfa

Plus: Jerwood Charitable Foundation appoints Lilli Geissendorfer as director | Seven-figure settlement finalised in Ross Bleckner painting case | and Christie’s Impressionist and modern art sale records highest total in a decade

Plus: Düsseldorf state art collection uncovers Malevich forgery | Karl Katz (1929–2017) | Stolen photographs are mailed back to MoMA PS1 | and recommended reading

Plus: Studio Museum announces 2018 artists-in-residence | HTC launches virtual-reality art initiative | and court orders release of all Mugrabi collection artworks from storage

Plus: Armory director Benjamin Genocchio is replaced over sexual harassment reports | Washington National Gallery of Art director Rusty Powell is to resign | Stolen Matisse bronze is recovered by Art Loss Register | and Nelson-Atkins adds 800 photographs to collection

Plus: Lisa Le Feuvre is appointed first executive director of Holt-Smithson Foundation | Prehistoric Greek sealstone is discovered in Bronze Age tomb | Museum of Arts and Design introduces $50,000 artist prize | and recommended reading

Plus: Art historians protest UK museum image reproduction fees | Sharjah Biennial 14 curators are announced | €425,000 Botero bronze is stolen from Paris gallery | and Swiss museum returns Nazi-looted 17th-century ornaments

Plus: Republican tax plan seeks to close ‘like-kind’ exchange loophole | Art Dealers Association of America names Maureen Bray as executive director | City of London returns Nazi-looted Dutch Old Master painting | and recommended reading

Plus: Hito Steyerl tops ArtReview’s 2017 Power 100 | Ancient coin collection is discovered at National Trust’s Scotney Castle | ADAA Foundation announces grants for four US museums | and recommended reading

Plus: Frieze appoints Andrew Durbin as US senior editor | Dalloul Art Foundation raises collection authenticity concerns | Artforum contributing editors condemn publishers’ handling of Landesman allegations

Plus: Richard Hambleton (1952–2017) | Grundy Art Gallery names Paulette Terry Brien as new curator | Simone Leigh wins $50,000 Studio Museum in Harlem prize | and Leo Xu and Jennifer Yum will co-direct David Zwirner in Hong Kong

Plus: 14th-century cave art found on uninhabited Caribbean island | Massachusetts attorney general files to halt Berkshire Museum sale | Dia Art Foundation directorship is endowed by Nathalie and Charles de Gunzburg | and recommended reading

Plus: British Museum ends co-operation deal with stalled Abu Dhabi museum | Art industry figures sign open letter denouncing sexual harassment | V&A acquires Wilton’s Music Hall archive | Five UK cities bid for European Capital of Culture title | and recommended reading

Plus: Hidden portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots portrait is found | Berkshire Museum members file second suit over deaccession sale | Mellon Foundation grants $3.5m to Seattle Art Museum for Asian art conservation centre | and activists target Roosevelt statue outside American Museum of Natural History

Plus: 2017 Sobey Art Award goes to Ursula Johnson | Knight Landesman resigns from Artforum following sexual harassment suit | David Velasco will succeed Michelle Kuo as Artforum editor | and sixth Nazi-looted artwork is identified in Gurlitt collection

Plus: Queens University of Charlotte receives $10m for arts building renovation | Mugrabi collection artworks will be released from storage by court order | Reports emerge of sexual misconduct by Artforum publisher Knight Landesman | and German museums return human remains to Australia and Hawaii

Plus: Creative Time’s Nato Thompson departs for new Philadelphia institution | Wesleyan University launches residency for hurricane-affected artists | Researchers uncover new source for medieval and Renaissance alabaster statues | and recommended reading

Plus: Agnieszka Polska wins Germany’s National Gallery Prize | Fundació Joan Miró closes exhibition rooms due to strike action | Ancient Greek vases exhibited at Frieze Masters come under scrutiny | and recommended reading

Plus: Victory for Matisse family in long-running court battle | Lebanese police seize painting thought to be a stolen Dalí work | Deborah de Robertis acquitted of sexual exhibitionism charges | and recommended reading

Plus: Omer Fast responds to critics of his New York show | Pyotr Pavlensky goes on hunger strike following incarceration | and Fernando Mignoni to open gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Plus: Berkshire Museum criticised by Rockwell family over deaccession plans | Warhol and Rauschenberg foundations team up with Lin-Manuel Miranda to aid Puerto Rico relief efforts | and charity auction for Grenfell Tower survivors raises £1.9m