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Plus: Ruined Sebastiano del Piombo masterpiece has been restored | Gilbert & George announce plans for east London museum | Lynette Yiadom-Boakye wins Sky Arts award | Trevor Paglen wins Deutsche Börse photography prize | and Christie’s to auction the collection of Brian Sewell

Plus: Archaeologist accuses Syrian government forces of looting Palmyra | Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s private collection to be auctioned at Christie’s | Stanley Spencer Memorial Trust wins Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service | and Marion Lambert (1943–2016)

Plus: Report into private museums submitted to IRS | Shortlist announced for Sobey Award | Mellon Foundation grants V&A research institute £1.75 million | David Roche’s collection to go on show in Adelaide | and recommended reading

Plus: Dutch Museums to build joint collection centre | Artists call for boycott of Rio Olympics | National Media Museum remains silent over rebranding

Plus: Fifth canvas stolen from Westfries Museum returned | Portrait of Jane Seymour identified in Cambridge townhouse | Peter Brant assumes full control of art titles

Plus: Spanish court denies extradition request for Knoedler forgery suspect | Suspects arrested in connection with Francis Bacon thefts | and recommended reading

Plus: Russian artist gives human rights award to jailed guerrilla group | 100 works of art donated to Pérez Art Museum | Bronx Museum of the Arts plans major extension

Plus: Christie’s to lead 250th anniversary sale with Constable ‘masterpiece’ | Russia’s National Centre for Contemporary Arts absorbed into State Museum and Exhibition Center | Ai Weiwei studio member detained by Greek police | UC San Diego to convert university art gallery into classroom | Yuri Pattison wins 2016 Frieze Artist award | and Patrick George (1923-2016)

Plus: Christie’s to open exhibition space in Beijing | Art Basel announces winner of BMW Art Journey | Eva Birkenstock appointed director of Düsseldorf Art Foundation | and recommended reading

Plus: De Appel board of trustees resigns | Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art under fire for ‘anti-Christian’ painting | BADA and ABA form closer ties | and recommended reading

Plus: Protestors halt closure of Brazil’s culture ministry | Restoration of Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art receives go-ahead | Bowl looted from National Museum of Afghanistan returned | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation examines the civic role of the arts

Plus: Artists join campaign for the UK to stay in the EU | Lost Renaissance sculptures found in Moscow | Indianapolis Museum of Art slightly less in debt

Plus: Climate change protests force temporary closure of British Museum | Ai Weiwei: EU’s refugee deal with Turkey is ‘immoral’ | Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art signs deal with Louvre | Pratt Institute president to step down | Brooklyn Museum offers staff buyouts | Milwaukee Art Museum names new director | and recommended reading

Plus: Phillips raises threshold for buyer’s premium | Director of Scottish National Gallery to retire | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego names new director | and recommended reading

Plus: YouTube pranksters jailed for National Portrait Gallery stunt | Wang Zhongjun buys Song dynasty letter for $32 million | Five northern cultural institutions receive £730,000 Arts Council England award | Asbjørn Lunde donates two landscapes to the National Gallery | and Louisa Chase (1951–2016)

Plus: Sainsbury family members sign letter objecting to British Museum's BP sponsorship | Australia Council for the Arts to invest $112 million in arts organisations | Cheyenne Westphal joins Phillips | and recommended reading

Plus: Members of performance group arrested in Egypt | Sotheby’s contemporary sale rallies spirits | Paddle8 and Auctionata to join forces | Indiana University Art Museum receives $15 million donation | Winners announced for Jerwood/FVU awards

Plus: Sighs of relief at Christie’s Postwar & Contemporary sale | New Museum to double its space ahead of 40th birthday | Simchowitz and Ellis King settle legal dispute with Ibrahim Mahama | Thaddaeus Ropac to take over Mallett space in London | and recommended reading

Plus: Amateur antiques dealer jailed for theft | National Portrait Gallery saves Rejlander photographic album for the nation | Harold Cohen (1928–2016) | and Martin Friedman (1925–2016)

Plus: Van Gogh Museum to offer consultation services | All change at Santa Monica Museum of Art | recommended reading: auction fever in New York

Plus: Poland’s memory wars over Second World War museum | Marseille to host Manifesta 2020 | recommended reading

Plus: Aby Rosen reaches settlement over unpaid tax on works of art | Public art commission censored in Istanbul | Fire damages Rosemarie Trockel’s Cologne home | Victorian Society invites public to nominate UK’s top 10 endangered buildings | Plus recommended reading

Plus: Iranian artist released from prison | Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbarn granted £25,000 ‘lifeline’ | Istanbul’s Moving Image fair cancelled | and recommended reading