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Liverpool loses Unesco World Heritage status
Plus: France requires vaccine passports for cultural venues and more than 1,000 Polish cultural figures criticise dismissal of museum director
The week in art news – Christian Boltanski (1944–2021)
Plus: Charlottesville removes statue of Robert E. Lee | Ann Demeester to direct Kunsthaus Zürich | Selldorf Architects to lead National Gallery’s major building project | and atom bomb artwork in Essex removed after complaints from local councillors
The week in art news – White House sets terms for sales of Hunter Biden’s paintings
Plus: South Korea to build new museum to house Samsung art collection | James Lingwood and Michael Morris step down from Artangel after 30 years | Met appoints new head of European paintings | Noah Horowitz to leave Art Basel
The week in art news – In Canada, protestors topple statues of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II
Plus: Berlin Museums may return Benin Bronzes as early as next year and a construction worker has admitted stealing a Picasso and a Mondrian from the National Gallery in Athens
The week in art news – George Osborne to chair the board of the British Museum
Plus: Teddy Roosevelt’s statue will lose its spot outside the American Museum of Natural History, and more stories
The week in art news – Artes Mundi Prize awarded to all six shortlisted artists
Plus: MacKenzie Scott donates to 60 cultural organisations | Art-world figures recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list | Germany returns pre-Columbian artefacts to Mexico
The week in art news – staff accuse Barbican Centre of being institutionally racist
Plus: the Met returns two Benin Bronzes, Donald Judd’s office in Marfa severely damaged in fire, and more stories
The week in art news – frustrated Belgian experts issue their own restitution guidelines
Plus: The Whitney has voluntarily recognised a union and Hobby Lobby is suing Dirk Obbink over alleged papyrus theft
The week in art news – Laurence des Cars becomes first woman to lead Louvre
Plus: chairs of the National Gallery and the National Trust have resigned | Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1929–2021) | and Biden removes Trump-appointed board members from the Commission of Fine Arts
The week in art news – in Oxford, Rhodes won’t fall after all
Victoria Pomeroy to head up the Box in Plymouth | TEFAF Maastricht cancelled for 2021 | Banksy fails to trademark an image of a monkey
The week in art news – UK government approves Whitechapel Bell Foundry becoming a boutique hotel
Plus: NGA Washington appoints E. Carmen Ramos chief curator | Cerne Abbas Giant may date to Saxon times | Turner Prize-nominated collective criticises Tate in open letter
Five artist collectives – and no individuals – shortlisted for Turner Prize
Plus: Istanbul Biennial postponed to 2022 | Colosseum to get a wooden floor | and Karl Wirsum (1939–2021)
Germany to return Benin Bronzes from 2022
Plus: Samsung heirs donate 23,000 artworks to South Korean state in tax settlement | Marie-Josée Kravis is MoMA’s new chairman | and Nathalie Bondil moves to the Institut du Monde Arabe
The week in art news – Florida makes toppling statues a felony
Plus: German museums to close again this weekend | Harriet Tubman’s Maryland home has been discovered | and Peabody Essex Museum appoints Lynda Roscoe Hartigan as new director
The week in art news – Jean-Luc Martinez appointed ‘interim’ president of the Louvre
Plus: French court rules that commercial galleries must remain closed | Unesco report on museum funding pressures makes for grim reading | Cambodian government condemns altered photographs of Khmer Rouge victims
The week in art news – Spain stops a suspected Caravaggio from leaving the country
Plus: French galleries are suing the government to reopen, Egypt moves its royal mummies in a a televised extravaganza, and more stories
The week in art news – V&A revises plan to restructure departments
Plus: Mali and Unesco receive symbolic reparations for Timbuktu destruction | France pledges €500,000 for Sursock Museum repairs | Gianluigi Colalucci (1929–2021) | Leon Black will not seek re-election as MoMA chair | and Detroit Institute of Arts trustees resign after criticisms of director
The week in art news – German culture minister calls for national strategy on Benin Bronzes
Plus: M+ Museum promises to comply with Hong Kong national security law | Donald R. Sobey (1934–2021) | Serpentine Galleries remove Sackler name | and Nicolas Bourriaud ousted as director of Montpellier museum
Germany moves closer to returning Benin Bronzes
The German government has reportedly been in talks about the return of German-held Benin Bronzes, raising hopes of their imminent restitution
The week in art news – US museums vote against permanent easing of deaccessioning guidelines
Plus: V&A pauses plans to make National Art Library staff redundant | Lacaton & Vassal win Pritzker Architecture Prize | and David Alan Harvey resigns from Magnum
The week in art news – Christie’s sells jpeg by digital artist for a record $69m
Plus: Metro Pictures in New York to close | Paris Biennale folds | and National Trust’s colonialism report deemed lawful by Charity Commission
The week in art news – museums in Germany to open from Monday
Plus: V&A to merge departments and cut 140 jobs | UK government announces £390m to help arts venues reopen | Alan Bowness (1928–2021) | and missing Jacob Lawrence painting discovered in Manhattan
Missing Jacob Lawrence painting discovered in Manhattan apartment
The panel from one of the American painter’s great narrative series is the second to have shown up by chance in quick succession
The week in art news – Amnesty report points to massacre in Ethiopian town of Axum
Plus: Swiss museums reopen next week, while UK museums must wait until May | Experts confirm message on The Scream is by Munch | and National Gallery in London and Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin update Hugh Lane bequest deal
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