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Plus: New report suggests Garden Bridge funding plan ‘optimistic at best’ | New non-profit organisation to carry out technical analysis of Modigliani works  | and Artangel launches Oscar Wilde-inspired art project at Reading Prison

Plus: First World War-era submarine wrecks given protected status | Gurlitt: collector allegedly held more than 90 works ‘likely to have been looted’ | and unlucky recipient of Van Gogh’s ear identified

Plus: Nathaniel Gee to mastermind Estorick refurb | New York State to collect $4.3 million in back taxes from Gagosian Gallery | Christie’s reports mixed half year results | and Grimshaw Architects chosen to design Heathrow’s future expansion plans

Plus: Arts Council England announces changes to museum funding | Ed Vaizey removed as UK culture minister | Redundancies at the Met ‘could exceed 100’ | Louise Hearman wins Archibald Prize for Barry Humphries portrait | and Damien Hirst formaldehyde works ‘not harmful’

Plus: Artists petition Israel to release Palestinian poet | Agustín Arteaga appointed director of Dallas Museum of Art | Irish Museum of Modern Art and Hennessy establish acquisition fund

Plus: Pavlensky stripped of Human Rights Foundation award | Julius von Bismarck wins Wolfsburg art prize | and David Bowie’s art collection comes up for auction

Plus: Art 'expert' disappears with possible Leonardo work | Export bar for 16th-century Book of Hours | Olivier Thomas called for further questioning in art theft case | and Getty and Rothschild Foundations come together to support new fellowship

Plus: Niels Van Tomme to take over at De Appel Arts Center | Aarhus to host new triennial in 2017 | World Monuments Fund forced to cut almost 25 per cent of jobs

Plus: Michael Simpson wins John Moores Painting Prize | Valeria Napoleone to exhibit collection in travelling exhibition | Peter Doig sued for denying authorship of painting | and Timothy Taylor to open US gallery

Plus: New museum to open in Los Angeles | Vice Media acquires majority share in Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Magazine | ISIS release further footage of Palmyra destruction | and New Museum and K11 Foundation announce residency for emerging Chinese artists

Plus: Lee Ufan refuses to certify contested works as forgeries | Prosecutors seize Giacometti works from Swiss museum | and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum agrees to return archaeological artefacts to Italy

Plus: £30 million Cultural Protection Fund calls for applications | Turner Contemporary announces Clive Stevens as new chair | Woodward Gallery refutes collector lawsuit | and Jean-Pierre Bertrand (1937–2016)

Plus: Iranian artist prevented from leaving the country | Ellsworth Kelly Foundation donates $1 million to FCA for new award | Mami Kataoka named artistic director of 21st Sydney Biennale | and K.G. Subramanyan (1924–2016)

Plus: Justine Simons appointed London’s deputy mayor for culture | UK memorials to war dead listed to mark anniversary of the Somme | Tod Williams and Billie Tsien selected to design Obama Presidential Library | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac confirms plans for Mayfair gallery | and Guy Ullens announces intention to hand over ownership of UCCA

Plus: Liverpool Biennial site damaged in suspected arson attack | Thomas Borgmann donates 600 works to Stedelijk Museum | Italian consumer group accuses Christo of wasting taxpayers’ money | and Rauschenberg Foundation announces 2016 Artist as Activist fellowships

Plus: Hartwig Fischer reveals ambitious plans for BM reading room | Kier Group to repair Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building | Soviet memorials in Poland to be moved to a museum | Ray Entwistle appointed chairman of Bonhams Scotland | and Ben Patterson (1934–2016)

Plus: Post-Brexit auction at Phillips produces mixed results | Kean University receives permission to buy Michael Graves residences | Hugh Honour (1927–2016) | and recommended reading

Plus: Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum forced to close basement displays due to leaks | Québec City fine art museum unveils $103 million expansion | and Future Generation Art Prize calls for entries

Plus: Mixed auction results in London ahead of EU referendum | Léon Cligman donates 1,200 works of art to Tours’s musée des Beaux-Arts | and Christo’s Floating Piers to close at night for repairs

Plus: Roman coins discovered in Devon shed new light on empire | Clara Drummond wins BP Portrait Award | Contemporary Art Society and Frieze launch acquisition fund for UK museums | State Hermitage Museum to open Barcelona outpost | Picasso’s Femme Assise sets record for Cubist painting at Sotheby’s | and Art Cologne reschedules due to clash with Berlin Gallery Weekend

Plus: Sotheby’s plans modern and contemporary African art sales | Volksbühne Theatre staff protest Chris Dercon’s appointment as director | MoMA PS1 extends free admission period | and Zaha Hadid honoured on Iraqi postage stamp