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Plus: Marble Dionysus head discovered in Rome | Art Institute of Chicago to auction off 300 works of Chinese art | and recommended reading

Plus: Lonnie G. Bunch III named secretary of Smithsonian Institution | Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art appoints João Laia as chief curator | and Horst H. Baumann (1934–2019)

Plus: Staff strike closes doors at Louvre | and former Macron aid appointed director of Pinault Collection

Plus: Rebecca Pow replaces Michael Ellis as UK arts minister | Aberdeen Art Gallery receives £1m from BP | Asian artefacts stolen from Bath museum returned broken | and recommended reading

Plus: Designs for Eiffel Tower parks revealed | and Joan Miró Prize awarded to Nalini Malani

Plus: Lawrence Carroll (1954­–2019) | Herzog & de Meuron to design Brooks Museum building | Harvard’s Peabody Museum appoints Jane Pickering as director | and US Supreme Court declines appeal over Norton Simon Cranachs

Plus: Notre-Dame found to be structurally unstable | Germany to return 15th-century cross to Namibia | and Serpentine announces inaugural augmented architecture commission

Plus: Who bought Koons’ Rabbit? | Museum of London shares previously unseen photos of Queen Victoria | Protestors march from Whitney to trustee’s home | and recommended reading

Plus: Toledo Museum of Art to return Attic vessel to Italy | and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize awarded to Susan Meiselas

Plus: Czech culture minister resigns | David Attenborough honoured at Museums + Heritage Award | $91m Jeff Koons sculpture sale breaks records | Lutz Bacher (1943–2019)

Plus: Budapest museum removes unflattering portrait of Hungarian prime minister | UK Parliament's art collection to include more women

Plus: Controversy over migrant boat at Venice Biennale | National Gallery’s Artemisia Gentileschi goes on view at secondary school | and recommended reading

Plus: Art exports from Britain at a 3-year high | Ethiopia renews demands for return of Ethiopian prince’s remains | Preserving Weeksville, former free black haven in New York City | Recommended reading

Plus: Thomas Nozkowski (1944-2019) | Wildenstein & Co sued over 1985 sale of alleged fake Bonnard | Guggenheim launches conservation fellowship endowed by Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin

Plus: Venezuela postpones opening of pavilion at Venice Biennale | and Tennessee Triennial to launch in 2021

Plus: Director of Brazil’s National Museum pleads for funding | Ancient Egyptian burial ground discovered near pyramids of Giza | and Canadian Artists in Venice Endowment receives $1m from the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation of Toronto

Plus: Vanja Mallory appointed director and chief curator of the Syracuse University Art Galleries | Hidden Cupid revealed in Vermeer painting | and recommended reading

Plus: Trevor Paglen’s satellite sculpture is lost in space | Facebook removes groups selling looted Syrian artefacts | Cattelan’s gold toilet goes to Blenheim

Plus: Pissarro painting looted by Nazis to remain in Spain | Berlinische Galerie closes due to structural problems | and Klaus Bussmann (1941–2019)

Plus: American art museum condemns use of painting by AfD | Asia Society announces new triennial | Berlin museum returns remains to New Zealand | and recommended reading

Plus: Open letter calls for MoMA and Larry Fink to divest from private prison companies | Protests at Whitney turn to Puerto Rico | Kraków City Council rejects museum merge | and Nancy Fouts (1945–2019)

Plus: UK Museum of the Year shortlist announced | Artists criticise Tate for resuming ties with Anthony d’Offay | Pretend heiress and art-philanthropist convicted of theft by New York court | and recommended reading

Plus: German court fines man for stealing discarded Gerhard Richter sketches | Counterfeit Rodin dealers sentenced after 18-year legal battle | and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to be completed around 2022