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Plus: Southbank Centre receives certificate of immunity from listing | Artists organise major political billboard project | and Irving Sandler (1925–2018)

Plus: Dallas Museum of Art acquires Derick Baegert panel | Robert J. Fisher appointed chair of SFMoMA board | and winners of inaugural Pax Art Award announced

Plus: Federal investigators close probe on Yves Bouvier | Plans to relocate Escher Museum in doubt | and Thomas Dane to represent Anthea Hamilton

Plus: Opinions divided on Frick project at public hearing | Emperor Constantine’s finger identified in the Louvre | Shortlist announced for Sobey Art Award | and Leon Black named chairman of MoMA board of trustees

Plus: Painting of Ivan the Terrible vandalised in Moscow | Original site scrapped for Jeff Koons’s Paris memorial | Berkshire and La Salle University museums face sanctions over deaccessioning | and Swiss pavilion awarded Golden Lion at Venice Architecture Biennale

Plus: Robert Indiana’s house to become a museum | Elizabeth Duggal appointed deputy director at the Guggenheim | and recommended reading

Plus: Painting in Italian museum reattributed to Andrea Mantegna | Berkshire Museum’s deaccession auctions fall short of target | Art Gallery of Ontario retitles painting by Emily Carr | and Gerhard Richter donates works to raise funds for housing charity

Plus: Amanda Levete appointed as architect of £42m Paisley Museum project | Swedish court blocks plans for Chipperfield-designed Nobel Centre | Herb Alpert award winners announced

Plus: Getty Foundation awards grants to prints and drawings departments | Interview magazine folds | Rothko Chapel in Houston vandalised

Plus: Berlin State Museums return nine artefacts to Alaska | and recommended reading

Plus: Luke Willis Thompson wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize | Architects announced for the V&A Research and Collection Centre announced | German culture minister has plans for 23 per cent hike in arts funding | and recommended reading

Plus: Richard Gray (1928–2018) | Forensic Architecture and Borderland win European Cultural Foundation prize | and report finds Western Australia’s state art collection at risk of loss and damage

Plus: Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) | and Germany announces code of conduct on handling colonial-era objects

Plus: Italian police seize $1 million of stolen artefacts | Sam Nzima (1934–2018) | Design Museum named European Museum of the Year | Corcoran Gallery distributes former collection | and LGBTQ supporters attacked in Beijing art district

Plus: Rockefeller collection breaks auction record | MoMA appoints Rob Giampietro as Director of Design | and recommended reading

Plus: Anonymous donor steps in to pay penalty incurred by National Gallery of Canada | Yvette Coppersmith wins Australia’s Archibald Prize for portraiture | Leslie Brothers appointed director of Ulrich Museum of Art | and recommended reading

Plus:  Nicolas Bourriaud to curate 2019 Istanbul Biennial | UK culture minister pledges to distribute works of art to the regions | and report urges France to reform Nazi-era restitution approach

Plus: Artists express concern over UK education policy | Christie’s first Rockefeller sale pulls in $646m | Fund announced for community arts projects in northern England  | and Met issues call for information about jewel-theft suspect

Plus: Stolen paintings recovered in Italy | New York art dealer pleads guilty to fraud | and online petition calls for Anna Coliva’s reinstatement at Galleria Borghese

Plus: British Council arts employee detained in Iran | US government could subject art dealers to financial regulations | Margaret McDermott (1912–2018) | and recommended reading

Plus: Collectors join forces to launch $800,000 art prize | New Artangel fund established with artists’ gifts | and Charlotte Amelia Poe wins inaugural Spectrum Prize

Plus: Temporary export bar placed on Joseph Wright of Derby painting | Collector sues Sotheby’s over sale of Mahmoud Mokhtar sculpture | Freya Simms named chief executive of LAPADA | and David Zwirner to represent Joan Mitchell Foundation

Plus: NEA chair Jane Chu to step down | Columbia MFA students demand refunds | Hollywood producer sues Gagosian over non-delivery of Koons sculpture | and David Zwirner proposes to ‘subsidise’ small galleries at art fairs