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Plus: UNESCO places 34 sites in Lebanon under ‘enhanced protection’; Berlin to cut its arts budget by €130m; and an armed heist at the Musée Cognacq-Jay

Plus: Art Basel reported to be in talks to run Abu Dhabi Art; Ashmolean acquires rare work by Fra Angelico; and Daniel Spoerri (1930–2024)

Plus: the UK budget announced, with mixed news for the arts; and archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city in Mexico

Plus: the Whitney Museum of American Art is making admission free for under-26s after a donation from Julie Mehretu; and Gary Indiana has died at the age of 74

Plus: National Gallery in London bans liquids, Lisa Schiff pleads guilty to defrauding clients, and Darren Walker is the next president of the NGA in Washington, D.C.

Plus: Lebanon’s culture minister calls for the country’s heritage sites to be protected from Israeli bombing; and a shield looted by the British in 1868 will be returned to Ethiopia

Plus: Unesco describes ‘unprecedented’ threat to Sudan’s cultural heritage, and Volodymyr Zelensky calls for ‘the decolonisation of Ukrainian art’

Plus: the Netherlands returns 288 objects seized from Indonesia during colonial rule; and LACMA postpones opening new building to visitors to 2026

Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum

Plus: British museum shortlists five architects for major refurbishment, and the art historian David Anfam has died at the age of 69

Plus: Staff at the Noguchi Museum stage a walk-out over its dress code; and Alain Delon (1935–2024)

Plus: the British Museum admits that it broke the law; and Kasper König (1943–2024)

Plus: Harvard refuses to remove Sackler name from university art museum, and Slovak culture minister fires director of the national gallery

UK government scraps Stonehenge tunnel, and American Museum of Natural History repatriates the remains of 124 individuals

Plus: US officials recover $1.2m Picasso drawing and Venice’s tourist tax has raised much more than expected

Plus: UK government reintroduces Holocaust Memorial Bill; and video artist Bill Viola has died at the age of 73

Plus: Eike Schmidt loses bid to become mayor of Florence; and US Supreme Court reverses a ruling that protected Sackler family from civil lawsuits

Plus: Matthew Teitelbaum, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is stepping down; and the art dealer Barbara Gladstone has died