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Plus: Berlin museums appeal to US Supreme Court over Guelph Treasure | Gagosian appoints Artsy co-founder as adviser | and recommended reading

Plus: Survey finds front-of-house staff in UK museums feel undervalued | Poster museum opens in New York | Illinois community college invests millions in expanded museum | and recommended reading

Plus: Whitney Museum senior curator Donna De Salvo resigns | Olafur Eliasson to illuminate Arc de Triomphe | and results of new survey weigh up salaries in visual arts

Plus: Putin grants Russian citizenship to grandson of collector whose property was allegedly seized by Lenin | Van Gogh's gun sells for €162,000 | and Union formed by security workers at Frye Art Museum

Plus: Robert Therrien (1947–2019) | and shortlist for Film London Jarman Award announced

Plus: Director of Berlin Jewish Museum steps down over controversial tweet | Valie Export named as recipient of The Roswitha Haftmann Prize | and rediscovered marble monument commemorating 19th-century humanitarian to go on display in New York

Plus: Hauser & Wirth to open arts centre in Menorca | World Monument Fund restores eastern half of Phnom Bakheng temple | and recommended reading

Plus: Opening of Humboldt Forum delayed until 2020 | and 2019 Sobey Art Award shortlist announced

Plus: activists occupy El Museo del Barrio on its 50th anniversary | and Guggenheim workers prepare to unionise

Plus: Gary Hume among artists calling for National Portrait Gallery to drop BP sponsorship | and Gagosian opens permanent gallery in Basel

Plus: Pierre Rosenberg collection to go to new museum in Saint-Cloud

Plus: Joseph Wright of Derby work purchased by Getty Museum may face export hurdles | With new content rules, ‘Triumph of the Will’ removed from YouTube | Security workers at Frye Art Museum in Seattle unionize | and recommended reading

Plus: David L. Lee elected president of Getty Trust board |  Flemish government to offer loans to contemporary art buyers | Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019) | Joe Overstreet (1933–2019)

Plus: National Trust buys Brackenthwaite Hows | Museumgoer discovers misidentified Rodin portrait | and recommended reading

Plus: Natural History Museum director to retire | and Camille Billops (1933–2019)

Plus: Lithuanian Pavilion faces financial shortfalls | Museum workers share salaries on anonymous spreadsheet | Tony DeLap (1927–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Debate sparked over 13th-century antisemitic relief on Lutheran church | RIAS announces winners of 2019 awards | and 22,000 photographs from Arab Image Foundation’s archive made available online  

Plus: Marble Dionysus head discovered in Rome | Art Institute of Chicago to auction off 300 works of Chinese art | and recommended reading

Plus: Lonnie G. Bunch III named secretary of Smithsonian Institution | Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art appoints João Laia as chief curator | and Horst H. Baumann (1934–2019)

Plus: Staff strike closes doors at Louvre | and former Macron aid appointed director of Pinault Collection

Plus: Rebecca Pow replaces Michael Ellis as UK arts minister | Aberdeen Art Gallery receives £1m from BP | Asian artefacts stolen from Bath museum returned broken | and recommended reading

Plus: Designs for Eiffel Tower parks revealed | and Joan Miró Prize awarded to Nalini Malani

Plus: Lawrence Carroll (1954­–2019) | Herzog & de Meuron to design Brooks Museum building | Harvard’s Peabody Museum appoints Jane Pickering as director | and US Supreme Court declines appeal over Norton Simon Cranachs

Plus: Notre-Dame found to be structurally unstable | Germany to return 15th-century cross to Namibia | and Serpentine announces inaugural augmented architecture commission