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Ai Weiwei prevented from boarding flight to Brazil
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
World Monuments Fund announces 2018 watch list
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
Beatrix Ruf to leave the Stedelijk Museum
Plus: Pyotr Pavlensky arrested after setting fire to the Banque de France | Omer Fast exhibition picketed by anti-racist activists | Museum dedicated to Einstein to open in Jerusalem | and Vincent Honoré and Cliff Lauson appointed senior curators at the Hayward Gallery
Audrey Azoulay elected director general of UNESCO
Plus: Controversial sculpture rejected by Louvre finds home at Centre Pompidou | German cultural figures protest appointment of right wing parliament representative | Arabic script discovered on Viking funeral costumes | and recommended reading
Met president condemns US withdrawal from UNESCO
Plus: Eli Broad retires | Kader Attia to receive 2017 Joan Miró prize | Alyson Baker steps down as director of Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum | and recommended reading
US and Israel withdraw from UNESCO
Plus: MFA Boston receives major gift of Dutch and Flemish art | Alistair Hudson appointed head of Manchester Art Gallery and Whitworth | Tobias Meyer to advise on Newhouse Collection | and three artists awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants
Christie’s to auction Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi
Plus: Fires in northern California force closure of arts institutions | Controversy over heritage funding in France | Rem Koolhaas to design New Museum expansion | and Dr Tarnya Cooper joins National Trust as curatorial and collections director
Architect selected for London’s new concert hall
Plus: Art world mourns Holly Block | UCCA sold to Chinese investors | Münster locals begin fundraising to keep Nicole Eisenman sculpture | and shortlist announced for Griffin Prize
Tristram Hunt calls for Exhibition Road to be pedestrianised
Plus: Imperial War Museum expresses concerns over Holocaust memorial | Munich’s Haus der Kunst appoints executive to deal with its finances | Marina Abramovic cancels plans for performance art institute | and recommended reading
The Rubin Museum appoints Jorrit Britschgi as its new director
Plus: Moray Council proposes to sell items from museum collections | Hitler painting attacked by visitor with screwdriver | Former employee files ‘whistleblower’ lawsuit against Grand Rapids Art Museum | Marrakesh Biennale cancelled | and recommended reading
Preserving Prussia’s royal palaces