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Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) | Signac painting identified as seventh Nazi-looted work in Gurlitt collection | and recommended reading

Plus: Sheela Gowda awarded Maria Lassnig Prize 2019 | Lee Wen (1957–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Artists Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh recipients of Sharjah Biennial Prize | Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala to curate 13th Gwangju Biennale | Elizabeth Glassman resigns from Terra Foundation for American Art | Outset Partners award grant to The Whitworth and Van Abbemuseum

Plus: Leonor Antunes to represent Portugal at Venice Biennale 2019 | Collection of fugitive billionaire Nirav Modi to be auctioned | and Bob and Roberta Smith sends letter of protest to Hertfordshire council

Plus: Hiroshi Sugimoto to redesign Hirshhorn sculpture garden

Plus: Jorge M. Perez donates $1.5m to Reina Sofia | Robert Maguire (1931–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Don Nice (1932–2019) | Art Basel and UBS publish global art market report | and recommended reading

Plus: Venice Biennale releases list of artists | and funding granted for Hepworth sculpture in Hertfordshire

Plus: Blain Southern to open New York gallery | ArtCenter/South Florida announces plans for new $30m home | Todd Williamson wins Pollock Prize for Creativity

Plus: Arata Isozaki wins Pritzker Architecture Prize | Zeitz MOCAA appoints Koyo Kouoh as new executive director | Wim Pijbes named global chairman of vetting at TEFAF | and Lauren Halsey wins Frieze Art Award 2019

Plus: MOCA Cleveland to abolish admission fees | National Army Museum to return lock of Tewodros II’s hair to Ethiopia | Hank Willis Thomas to design MLK memorial in Boston | and recommended reading

Plus: Masterpiece Fair to open in Hong Kong with Fine Art Asia | Painting attributed to Caravaggio to be auctioned in June | Hon Chi Fun (1922–2019) | and recommended reading

Plus: Michael Cohen claims Trump used ‘fake bidder’ to purchase $60,000 portrait of himself | Rothko Chapel to close temporarily for restoration | Performance art festival Block Universe expands to Berlin

Plus: Emma Son appointed senior director of Lehmann Maupin Seoul | German man forgets Picasso ceramic on train | 'Burn after purchase' sculpture of Spanish king goes on sale at ARCO Madrid

Plus: Participants announced for Whitney Biennial 2019 | Jamie Crewe wins Margaret Tait Award | and Jack Burnham (1931–2019)

Plus: Ghana to present first national pavilion at Venice Biennale | A third of Armory show exhibitors relocated after safety concerns | and recommended reading

Plus: Hermitage Museum evacuated after bomb threats | Bronx Museum of the Arts appoints new board members | and recommended reading

Plus: Dallas Art Fair to open permanent exhibition space | and ivory smuggler jailed in Tanzania 

Plus: US investment firm sues artist Kristen Visbal | National Gallery’s newly acquired Cranach goes on display | and the Met appoints new deputy director for digital

Plus: Ai Weiwei-directed segment in Berlin film cut | and founding director of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art steps down

Plus: Nan Goldin threatens to boycott National Portrait Gallery show over Sackler funding | Royal Academy receives £10 million from Hans and Julia Rausing | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sells Rothko | and Recommended Reading

Plus: Radical Matriarchy group protests outside National Gallery of Art in Washington | National Endowment of the Arts announces more than $27m in grants | and recommended reading

Plus: Junya Ishigami to design Serpentine Pavilion 2019 | Christie’s helps return eight looted antiquities to Italy | Bisi Silva (1962–2019) | and fire breaks out at empty Northampton Museum & Art Gallery

Plus: Richard Green sued by US client over ‘high price’ of Old Masters | Cindy Sherman awarded 2019 Max Beckmann Prize | and Blanton Museum of Art receives $20m gift from the Moody Foundation