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Plus: Has the wreck of the HMS Endeavour been discovered? | Baltimore Museum of Art announces new director | Marisol Escobar (1930–2016) | and recommended reading

Plus: Museums under scrutiny over sponsorship arrangements | Recommended weekend reading

Plus: Ai Weiwei to make documentary about refugee crisis | Labour protests continue at Guggenheim | Wim Delvoye plans museum in Iran | Matteo Del Fante announced as new president of Palazzo Strozzi | Armory Show to merge contemporary and modern sections | Recommended reading

Plus: Finaldi: potential for expansion at National Gallery | Romanian culture minister resigns | LACMA receives combined donation of $75 million | 18th century state bed saved from Clandon Park ruins | Recommended reading: Gagosian on Gagosian and how A.I. could kill great art

Plus: St Petersburg City Court set to close case against Pyotr Pavlensky | Long Museum to open third space | Ron Arad announced for St Pancras station commission | Recommended reading: Moscow’s ‘tacky’ public art

Plus: Reports of gallery closures at MoMA scotched | Lisson and Gagosian galleries send work to Tehran | plus other recommended reading

Plus: Culture secretary accused of political bias over National Gallery appointment | Walton Family Foundation donates $10 million to the National Gallery of Art | Unseen Freud self-portrait to go on display at National Portrait Gallery | Istanbul’s Art International Fair postponed | Myrna Ayad appointed as director of Art Dubai

Plus: Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery to be restored | Joint exhibition of Gurlitt collection delayed | Smithsonian American Art Museum director to step down | Shortlist announced for Art Mill international design competition | William Kentridge makes major donation to EYE | Recommended reading: Zaha Hadid’s legacy and a golden flush at the Guggenheim?

Plus: Manchester Museum receives £400,000 towards major redevelopment | Canadian Museum of Inuit Art to close | Recommended reading: censorship in Egypt

Plus: Database reveals 23,000 items missing from French national collections | The Art Newspaper announces change of leadership | Bow Arts Trust receives £600,000 from social investment programme | Miami rejects major Zaha Hadid proposal | Entertainment agency WME | IMG buys stake in Frieze fairs | Mark Bradford to represent US at 2017 Venice Biennale

Plus: Roman villa unearthed in Wiltshire garden | Richard Smith (1931–2016) | Recommended reading

Plus: Tate Modern reveals extension plans | A request to rename the Musée du Quai Branly | Belgium scraps anti-trafficking taskforce | Villa Antonori put up for sale | Malick Sidibé (1935/36–2016)

Plus: Protests in Iran over mooted privatisation of Tehran Art Museum | Artist arrested in Zimbabwe over play casting light on political scandal | Auction house withdraws Dutch Old Master painting from sale over looting fears | Recommended reading: ‘Border Wall’ competition sparks outrage

Plus: FBI offers $25,000 for Springfield Museum’s stolen Warhols | Egyptian authorities move to demolish Townhouse Gallery | Daniel Libeskind reveals plans for Kurdish museum in Irbil | Australia deports Oscar Murillo after artist destroys passport | Two men arrested in connection with murder of Oxford art dealer | Could there be a second ‘lost Caravaggio’ hidden away in France? | and Elmgreen & Dragset appointed curators of 15th Istanbul Biennial

Plus: Singapore’s Pinacothèque de Paris closes doors | Austrian government plans to seize Hitler's birthplace | the weekend’s best news and comment

Plus: ‘Panama Papers’ shine light on art world’s offshore dealings | Leopold Museum returns Schiele drawings to descendants of former owner | Ben Rivers wins EYE art & film prize | Recommended reading – Donald Trump’s taste in art and Palmyra after ISIS

Plus: Police recover stolen Munch lithograph | Structural collapse at Cairo's Townhouse gallery | Artist sues Mapplethorpe Foundation and others for $65 million | A poor reception for the new-look Les Halles

Plus: Edinburgh International Festival and BP to part ways | Swedish court finds Wikimedia in violation of copyright law | Norwegian police arrest two in connection with Munch theft | Leonard A. Lauder awarded inaugural Whitney Collection award | Recommended reading - ‘toxic provenance’

Plus: Rembrandt’s portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet goes on display in Cardiff | Another ‘Rembrandt’ is unveiled in Amsterdam | Jan Fabre resigns as artistic director of Athens and Epidaurus Festival | Has a ‘lost’ Caravaggio painting been discovered in France? | and Klaus Biesenbach awarded Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit

Plus: Celebrities petition British Museum to abandon BP partnership | Derain’s Les Voiles Rouges comes up for sale at Sotheby’s New York | Pompidou ‘pop ups’ for Seoul and China | The weekend’s best reviews and comment

Plus: Durham Light Infantry Museum closes doors for the last time | Cheyenne Westphal to leave Sotheby’s | Former Pompidou managing director pleads guilty to misuse of public funds | Panthéon’s dome reopens after renovation | a profile of the BM’s new director, Hartwig Fisher

Plus: Taipei triumphs with visitor figures | Further comment on Palmyra | Elisabeth Murdoch launches £100,000 art prize for women | Increased security for Italy’s cultural attractions | and the Getty awards $8.45 million for new edition of Pacific Standard Time