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Plus: Hong Kong’s June 4th Museum to reopen | Martin Clark named director of Camden Arts Centre | Tate Modern extension to be named in honour of Len Blavatnik | and Rod Hebden appointed interim director of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery Trust

Plus: Police say terrorist suspect planned to target art collective | Alex Katz painting stolen from Munich gallery | and Dan Byers appointed director of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Plus: Orlan and Kader Attia speak out against Marine Le Pen | Cornelia Parker named official artist of 2017 general election | Vito Acconci (1940-2017) | and recommended reading

Plus: Iraqi forces capture ancient city of Hatra from ISIS | Works of art worth €27m stolen in northern Italy | Shortlist revealed for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award | and recommended reading

Plus: Two acquitted in Brett Whiteley forgery case | Jean Pigozzi plans foundation for contemporary African art | and World Monuments Fund launches Instagram initiative to protect modern buildings

Plus: MFA Boston in censorship dispute with Instagram | Marisol estate bequeathed to Albright-Knox Gallery | and Lindsay Pollock steps down as editor of Art in America

Plus: Painting looted by Nazis to be auctioned despite protests | LAXART founder to open production centre in Hollywood | and global online art sales grow by 15 per cent

Plus: Missing Festival of Britain sculpture identified in hotel garden | NEA report reveals economic impact of arts in all 50 states | Claire Doherty appointed director of Arnolfini | and recommended reading

Plus: National Gallery of Denmark scammed by fraudsters | Director of Swindon Museum project resigns | and Peggy Guggenheim’s heirs accuse Guggenheim Foundation of ignoring her wishes

Plus: Court rules that Yves Bouvier cannot be sued in Singapore | Marc Porter appointed chairman of Christie’s Americas | Ancient ruins discovered in Iran | and Alistair Burtenshaw appointed director of Watts Gallery Trust

Plus: Concerns over planned Academy Museum in LA | Ai Weiwei criticises Hong Kong after HSBC bank account refusal | Artists’ Pension Trust withdraws 18 lots from Sotheby’s | Getty Museum evacuated | Barkley L. Hendricks (1945–2017)

Plus: Musée d’Orsay accused of discrimination | Warhol Foundation files pre-emptive lawsuit over ‘Prince’ series dispute | and Robert Ryman donates 21 works to Dia Art Foundation

Plus: National Museum of Ireland pays out over historic staff complaints | Settlement reached over fake Rothko painting | Jeffrey Deitch to open Los Angeles gallery | and abc Berlin and Art Cologne in talks to start joint fair

Plus: Ownership dispute over Israel Museum’s Bird’s Head Haggadah | Uncertainty over Art Gallery of New South Wales director’s contract | and artists pen open letter to Documenta to protest evictions in Athens

Plus: National Gallery seeks £11m to save Bellotto landscape for the nation | Plans to reopen Lancashire museums in doubt | Paintings stolen from Auckland gallery | and recommended reading

Plus: Eran Neuman announces departure from Israel Museum | David Zwirner to open Upper East Side space | and recommended reading

Plus: Patrick Sears to step down as director of Rubin Museum | More than €150,000 worth of jewels stolen from Art Paris fair | Victoria Miro announces new gallery in Venice | and Roanne Dods (1966–2017)

Plus: Stolen Norman Rockwell painting recovered in Philadelphia | J.M.W. Turner’s Ehrenbreitstein to be auctioned at Sotheby’s | Okwui Enwezor wins 2017 International Folkwang Prize | Richard Parry to direct Glasgow International | and Leeds Art Gallery to reopen to the public in October

Plus: UK museums face ‘uncertain future’ | Archaeologists search for Caligula’s boat | UK arts councils and BBC announce new partnership

Plus: German government provides €1.2m to acquire looted Kirchner painting | William Kentridge work vandalised in Rome | Sky Arts launches ‘post Brexit’ art fund | and recommended reading

Plus: Arts advocates march in Boston | Artists clash with police in Beijing | Iron Age chariot discovered in Yorkshire | and recommended reading

Plus: Arts Council England to investigate benefit of the arts to children | Iranian gallery pulls out of Aipad Photography Show, citing travel ban | Restored Gainsborough painting returns to view after attack | and suspect arrested in connection with artist’s murder