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Plus: Oskar Rabin (1928–2018) | Sandra Lagumina appointed non-executive director of Agence France-Muséums | and Souls Grown Deep Foundation places works at five institutions

Plus: Sondra Perry wins the 2018 Nam June Paik Award | Pérez Art Museum Miami to launch Latin American and Latinx Art Fund | Njideka Akunyili Crosby now represented by David Zwirner Gallery | and college museum exhibition closes after veterans groups complaints

Plus: €660m funding boost for Berlin’s Natural History Museum | Andrea Bayer appointed deputy director for collections at the Met

Plus: New York court orders Sotheby’s to be repaid for fake Parmigianino painting | Figurative painting in cave in Borneo dated to 40,000 years ago | and Dallas Museum of Art receives $4m gift from Beverly and Donald S. Freeman

Plus: Italian populist government to introduce harsher penalties for cultural heritage crimes | WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize 2018 awarded to Agence Christiane Schmuckle-Mollard | and Cannupa Hanska Luger awarded Museum of Arts and Design’s inaugural Burke Prize

Plus: Sadaharu Horio (1939–2018) | and David Hockney receives lifetime achievement award for printmaking

Plus: Sally Tallent appointed Director of New York’s Queens Museum Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 announce shortlist | and Nam June Paik Art Center Prize 2018 awarded to Trevor Paglen

Plus: Sotheby’s reports losses of $27.8m for third quarter of 2018 | Finnish dealers fined and jailed for five-year forgery scam | World’s tallest statue unveiled in India | and recommended reading

Plus: Restitution committee says Stedelijk can keep Kandinsky | and Kimerly Rorschach to retire as director of Seattle Art Museum

Plus: Alfredo Jaar announced as winner of 11th Hiroshima Art Prize | and Venice museums reopen following city’s worst flood in a decade

Plus: Bill Arning resigns as director of Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | and Institut du Monde Arabe receives gift of 1,300 works 

Plus: The National Museum in Damascus has reopened after six years | David Kordansky announces plans to expand his LA gallery | 2018 MAXXI Bulgari Prize awarded to Diego Marcon

Plus: Mary Corse artwork damaged by fire at Dia:Beacon | Hito Steyerl wins 2019 Käthe Kollwitz Prize | and recommended reading

Plus: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation criticised after performance cancellation | and Studio Voltaire in London announces £2.3m capital project

Plus: Norman Foster withdraws from Saudi tech-city project | Museum of the Bible's Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are forgeries | Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev wins Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence

Plus: Jac Leirner wins the Wolfgang Hahn Prize | and Harold Gregor (1929–2018)

Plus: Co-founder of Kochi-Muziris Biennale resigns | Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha reveals plans to expand | Brooklyn’s Signal gallery to close | and recommended reading

Plus: Glasgow’s Winter Gardens will shut indefinitely for repairs at the end of the year | Simone Leigh wins Hugo Boss Prize | Diedrick Brackens wins $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Prize | Niels van Tomme leaves de Appel Museum for Argos Centre for Art and Media | and recommended reading

Plus: Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens appoints Adam Levine as director and CEO | Banksy video claims artwork was intended to shred entirely | Autry Museum of the American West receives grant from Native tribe | and Jacques Monory (1924–2018)

Plus: Alice Mann wins Taylor Wessing prize 2018 | Franck Riester appointed as French culture minister | and Mel Ramos (1935–2018)

Plus: Filmmaker Clément Cogitore receives Marcel Duchamp Prize | and Frontier Art Prize awarded to Tavares Strachan

Plus: Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018) | Prizes go to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Postcommodity at Carnegie International 2018 | and recommended reading

Plus: Location confirmed for Jeff Koons’ Bouquet of Tulips in Paris | and sale of shredded Banksy work confirmed

Plus: Open letter criticises suspension of Catherine de Zegher | Persian relic is taken to Tehran museum by Iranian President Rouhani | and CEO and Executive Director of Peabody Essex Museum retires after 25-year tenure | National Gallery receives £4 million to refurbish Room 32