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Plus: Guillaume Cerutti to replace Patricia Barbizet as chief executive at Christie’s | Jennifer Scott appointed director of Dulwich Picture Gallery | Deborah de Robertis on trial for exhibitionism | Ilaria Bonacossa named director of ARTISSIMA | Nazy Vassegh to leave Masterpiece | and Christy MacLear to leave Rauschenberg Foundation for Sotheby’s

Plus: Iranian architects protest planned demolition of Gio Ponti villa | Harry Hyams collection bequeathed to the UK | Experts advocate putting Stormont’s art collection on public display | and Smithsonian acquires 93 works by self-taught artists

Plus: Right-wing activists protest against exhibit at Jaipur Art Summit | Philip Rylands to leave Peggy Guggenheim Collection | and Woodrow Kernohan appointed director of John Hansard Gallery

Plus: ACE report gives mixed picture of arts sector diversity, UK grants £2.5 million to preserve historic Kabul district; and recommended reading

Plus: Oakland mayor announces grant to create affordable spaces for artists | Kader Attia accuses Universal Music of plagiarism | New York’s ISE Cultural Foundation to close | and recommended reading

Plus: Leo Villareal gets commission to light up London’s bridges | Noordbrabants Museum acquires Van Gogh watercolour | and Brett Gorvy to leave Christie’s for Dominique Lévy

Plus: Bavaria sued by heirs of persecuted art dealer Alfred Flechtheim | Director of Berlin’s Polish Institute fired | Renzo Piano’s ‘Paddington Cube’ given approval | and director of Seattle’s Pop Culture Museum to step down

Plus: Sotheby’s buys scientific research department to combat forgery | Mexican authorities seize fugitive politician’s art collection | and three of Assemble’s Toxteth houses sell for £90,000 each

Plus: Vladimir Putin vows to stop artistic censorship in Russia | Artefacts reportedly stolen from Palmyra and Yemen seized in Geneva | Restituted Reinhold Begas sculpture to remain on display at Alte Nationalgalerie | and recommended reading

Plus: Kamiar Maleki to direct Contemporary Istanbul 2017 | Michał Siarek wins New East Photo Prize | and recommended reading

Plus: France to join protocol to protect cultural heritage in war zones | Pearson to offer Art History A-level | Helsinki rejects Guggenheim proposal | and Museum Ludwig awards 2017 Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Trisha Donnelly

Plus: Van Gogh Museum criticises scholars for ‘excessively easygoing’ attitude to authentication | Disputed Beethoven score fails to sell at auction | French government returns painting attributed to Joos Van Cleve to heirs of Jewish collectors | and Pérez Art Museum receives $10 million plus collection of Cuban art

Plus: Huge Bronze Age torc discovered in Cambridgeshire field | Artists march on Ivanka Trump’s Manhattan apartment | Mathias Ary Jan to direct Biennale des Antiquaires under new name | and Heather Phillipson wins 2016 Film London Jarman Award

Plus: Berlin forced to postpone exhibition of Tehran’s modern masters | Greek archaeologists rediscover ‘lost Elgin marbles’ | Salem University shuts down politically themed exhibition | and recommended reading

Plus: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces $16 million renovation | Estate of Tom Wesselmann to be represented by Gagosian and Almine Rech | Gabi Ngcobo to curate 10th Berlin Biennale | and Future Generation Prize shortlist unveiled

Plus: Falling pound threatens National Gallery’s plans to acquire Pontormo painting | Manifesta 12 announces OMA as ‘creative mediator’ | Artists named for Jerwood Makers Open | and Stefan Borchardt named director of Kunsthalle Emden

Plus: Jenni Lomax to step down as director of Camden Arts Centre | Frick names Joseph Shatoff deputy director | and plans announced for Bauhaus centenary

Plus: Jeff Koons reveals plans for Paris terror attack memorial | ICA Miami to open new permanent space in 2017 | Glasgow School of Art receives major donation to renovate campus | and Prada Foundation to open new photography gallery

Plus: Richard Prince sued for unauthorised appropriation | Whitney announces artist list for 2017 Biennial | Szczecin’s National Museum named World Building of the Year | Frank Gehry and Maya Lin receive Presidential Medal of Freedom | and recommended reading

Plus: Helen Marten wins Hepworth Sculpture Prize | Unauthorised Anselm Kiefer exhibition to go ahead in Beijing | Seoul police make arrests relating to Lee Ufan forgery ring | and Perdita Hunt to step down as director of Watts Gallery Trust

Plus: Adam Broomberg launches poster campaign to oppose the ‘rising right’ | Second World War Dutch and British shipwrecks ‘disappear’ in Java Sea | and Folkwang Museum receives multimillion dollar donation

Plus: Authenticity of newly discovered Van Gogh sketches in doubt | Export bar for Hogarth’s The Christening | Anglo Saxon graves discovered in Norfolk | Anne Barlow to replace Sam Thorne at Tate St Ives | and Claudio Rasano wins Taylor Wessing prize

Plus: Staff and students protest planned redundancies at RCA School of Architecture | Guatemala to open Holocaust Museum | Museum of Liverpool to close for ‘essential works’ | and Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2016 Emerging Artist Grants announced

Plus: Germany reveals changes to Limbach Commission | Alphonse Mucha’s heir files lawsuit against the city of Prague | MFA Boston announces $24 million renovation | and recommended reading