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The week in art news – Marian Goodman closes London gallery
Plus: Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning sales | Lost Jacob Lawrence painting found after six decades | Stéphane Aquin appointed director of Montreal Museum of Fine Art | Deana Lawson wins 2020 Hugo Boss Prize
The week in art news – museums in Northern Ireland to close for four weeks
Plus: Brooklyn Museum to sell more works from its collection | French museum postpones Genghis Khan show after pressure from China | Art Fund announces Museums of the Year | and Chris Killip (1946–2020)
The week in art news – National Trust cuts 1,300 jobs
Plus: Nancy Spector resigns from the Guggenheim | France passes bill to restitute 27 colonial-era artefacts to Benin and Senegal | Baltimore Museum of Art plans to sell three paintings
The week in art news – Kevin Young appointed director of Smithsonian’s African American history museum
Plus: V&A to cut 10 per cent of workforce | RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal goes to David Adjaye | and Clore Duffield Foundation announces £2.5m grants for cultural organisations
The week in art news – Philip Guston show postponed to 2024
Plus: Agreement reached in dispute over Robert Indiana’s estate | Two Manhattan antiquities dealers charged with fraud | and ARCO Madrid and London Art Fair postponed
The week in art news – Brooklyn Museum to sell 12 works at auction
Plus: Royal Academy to cut 40 per cent of staff | FIAC cancels 2020 edition | and Terence Conran (1931–2020)
The week in art news – mining company chief resigns after destruction of sacred Australian sites
Plus: The French government announces a €2bn culture fund | DCMS Committee argues for extension to UK furlough scheme | and Tate cuts ties with Anthony d'Offay
The week in art news – Art Basel Miami Beach cancelled
Plus: Siah Armajani (1939–2020) | and SFMOMA is cutting the pay of all full-time staff
The week in art news – the Whitney cancels ‘Collective Actions’ exhibition after criticism
Plus: Dallas Art Fair exhibitors demand refunds | Heinz Frank (1939–2020) | Man who attacked Picasso painting gets 18-month sentence
The week in art news – Tate to make almost half of its commercial staff redundant
Plus: houses in Old City of Sanaa collapse after heavy rains, and current and former MMFA staff support sacking of Nathalie Bondil
The week in art news – museums and galleries destroyed in blast that devastated Beirut
Plus: Southbank Centre staff protest against redundancies | Major US museums announce further job losses | and dozens of artefacts privately restituted to Ecuador
The week in art news – National Trust considering up to 1,200 redundancies
Plus: House of Representatives votes to create a National Museum for the American Latino | Picasso murals removed from government building in Oslo | Two museums cancel shows by Jon Rafman | Senate report finds Russian businessman bypassed US sanctions by buying art
The week in art news – arson suspected in Nantes Cathedral fire
Plus: Gavin Brown to shut down his gallery and join Gladstone Gallery | the government of Quebec investigates Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | and Martin Parr resigns from Bristol Photo Festival after racism row | Birmingham Museums Trust places half its staff at risk of redundancy
The week in art news – Hagia Sophia to be turned back into mosque
Plus: James Murdoch’s firm to invest in MCH Group | Frieze fairs in London cancelled | Frank Popper (1918–2020) | Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation to be disbanded | Delphine Lévy (1969–2020) | Statue of Black Lives Matter protester erected in Bristol | Met to open five days a week from August | TEFAF New York has been cancelled
The week in art news – UK government promises £1.57bn emergency funding for arts sector
Plus: Roselyne Bachelot named France's new culture minister | Outdoor performances to resume in England | Leonie Bell announced as new director of V&A Dundee | Executive director of MOCAD placed on leave | Royal College of Art leadership loses vote of no confidence
The week in art news – UK museums and galleries announce plans for reopening
Plus: Milton Glaser (1929–2020) | French dealer who sold gold coffin to the Met charged with fraud | US Supreme Court to hear Guelph Treasure appeal
The week in art news – UK museums and galleries to reopen from 4 July
Plus: American Museum of Natural History to remove statue of Theodore Roosevelt | Guggenheim curatorial staff demand end of ‘discriminatory practices’ | Former Louvre curator arrested over sale of looted antiquities | Philadelphia Museum of Art to cut staff by more than 20 per cent | The Met announces plan to reopen at end of August
The week in art news – Oxford college backs calls to remove Rhodes statue
Plus: Amazon boss appointed director of Natural History Museum | Nanne Dekking steps down as chair of TEFAF | Marlborough closes gallery in New York
The week in art news – statue of slave trader toppled in Bristol in Black Lives Matter protest
Plus: Art Basel cancels 2020 edition of flagship fair | Leopold II statue removed in Antwerp after protests | SFMOMA makes more staff redundant | Commission set up to review landmarks in London
The week in art news – Governor of Virginia orders removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue
Plus: Christo (1935–2020) | Interior designer jailed for buying a Rothko with a stolen identity | Walker Art Center ends contract with Minneapolis police department | German stimulus package allocates €1bn for the arts
The week in art news – Gurlitt hoard investigation wound up
Turner Prize 2020 cancelled | Philadelphia Museum of Art workers unionise | Italian judges rule in favour of right-wing institute against the culture ministry | Emmanuel Kasarhérou appointed director of the Quai Branly | Roland Rudd to chair the Tate
The week in art news – Susan Rothenberg (1945–2020)
MFA Houston first major US institution to reopen | Venice Art and Architecture Biennales postponed | Hobby Lobby is suing Christie's
The week in art news – UK galleries and auction houses to reopen from 1 June
Thomas Sokolowski (1950–2020) | Allan Schwartzman leaves Sotheby’s | Photo London announces new dates and new venue | Austrian culture minister resigns
The week in art news – MoMA takes a ‘chainsaw’ to its budget
Sotheby’s prepares to reopen | MFA Boston sets up diversity fund | Cathie Pilkington elected keeper of the RA | Arts Council England lobbying for extra museum funding
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