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Plus: British Museum extends its Endangered Material Knowledge Programme | The Met appoints two co-chairs of its board of trustees | The state of New York is suing Sotheby’s for alleged tax fraud | Aldo Tambellini (1930–2020)

Plus: new dates announced for Philip Guston show | French senate approves restitution of 27 colonial-era artefacts | director of communications at the MNBAQ dies in Quebec City attack | Gagosian director fired after investigation into misconduct

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)

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

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

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

Plus: Royal Academy to cut 40 per cent of staff | FIAC cancels 2020 edition | and Terence Conran (1931–2020)

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

Plus: Siah Armajani (1939–2020) | and SFMOMA is cutting the pay of all full-time staff

Plus: houses in Old City of Sanaa collapse after heavy rains, and current and former MMFA staff support sacking of Nathalie Bondil

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

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

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