Plus: the 120-year-old California College of the Arts will close in 2027; and the Colombian painter and sculptor Beatriz González has died at the age of 93
Plus: United States withdraws from two UN cultural heritage bodies; and Louvre workers strike over working conditions and redevelopment plans
Plus: V&A director Tristram Hunt knighted for services to museums; and resignation of Istanbul Biennial curator cuts event short by two years
Plus: an independent report finds that Arts Council England should overhaul its funding model; and the National Museum of Libya has reopened after nearly 14 years
Plus: Pace Gallery is joining forces with Emmanuel Di Donna and David Schrader for a new ‘super gallery’; and more French institutions are increasing ticket costs for non-EU residents
Plus: four more arrests made over Louvre heist and Philadelphia Art Museum accuses fired former director of awarding herself unauthorised pay rises
Plus: a Klimt painting has sold for $236.4m in New York; and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has deaccessioned ten works from its collection
Plus: Hauser & Wirth has been charged with selling luxury goods to Russia, and the sacked director of the Philadelphia Art Museum is suing for unfair dismissal
Plus: Getty Images has lost a landmark case against an AI image generator; and Sasha Suda, CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum, has been fired
Plus: the White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts; and a US climate protestor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
Plus: the Louvre director offers to resign in the wake of the jewel theft, and plans to build a tunnel under Stonehenge have been quashed
Masked thieves broke into the Gallery of Apollo on Sunday and made off with eight priceless pieces
Plus: Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant, and Manhattan DA’s Office returns 29 antiquities to Greece
Plus: Frieze is launching its first fair in the Middle East, and the film-maker Ken Jacobs has died at the age of 92
Plus: a Moscow court has sentenced the director of a museum in Estonia to 10 years in prison in absentia
Plus: thieves steal €600,000 of gold from the natural history museum in Paris
After attracting the biggest-ever cash donations to any cultural institution, the museum has announced a new extension and a big change in collecting policy
Plus: former Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery director to head Milwaukee and UK Museums Association publishes new draft code of ethics warning against fossil-fuel sponsorship
Plus: Amy Sherald condemns Trump administration’s interference at the Smithsonian, and Art Gallery of New South Wales staff protest against cutting of 51 jobs
Plus: Dallas Museum of Art appoints Brian Ferriso director; Tanya Bonakdar to close LA space
Eight museums will be scrutinised to ensure their practices are in line with ‘the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism’
Plus: Manhattan DA returns 31 antiquities to Spain, Italy and Hungary, and Kasmin Gallery announces its closure
Plus: Amy Sherald cancels show at Smithsonian and the US withdraws from UNESCO again
Phillips sues a guarantor of a Pollock for not paying up, and Yale University Art Gallery withdraws two federal grant applications
