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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
Experts confirm Edvard Munch wrote secret message on The Scream
Experts have confirmed that the writing on The Scream is in Munch’s handwriting
The week in art news – head of Indianapolis Museum of Art resigns after controversial job ad
Plus: National Gallery in London launches design competition to rethink Sainsbury Wing | Guggenheim Museum reaches deal with unionised workers | Cy Twombly Foundation rages against the Louvre | and Dolly Parton asks not to be put on a pedestal
The week in art news – far-right French mayor reopens museums in defiance of Covid shutdown
Plus: Getty Trust launches $38.5m LA arts recovery fund | Neal Benezra to depart as head of SFMOMA | Mayor of London announces members of diversity commission | CEO of Royal British Columbia Museum resigns after investigation into racism
The week in art news – US Supreme Court rules for Germany in Guelph Treasure case
Plus: Germany announces a second €1bn bailout for culture | Dutch government agrees to return all stolen objects to former colonies | and French museums press for reopening
The week in art news – Botticelli painting sells for $92m at auction
Plus: Centre Pompidou to close for three years of renovations | TEFAF Maastricht postponed to September | City of Bruges to build major new exhibition space
The week in art news – Art Basel postponed to September
Plus: Bozar damaged by fire | and City of London to remove statues with slavery links
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