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Plus: Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko jailed for seven years for anti-war protest, Joe Tilson (1928–2023), and B.N. Goswamy (1933–2023)

Plus: director of Hungarian National Museum sacked, Odesa museum damaged by Russian missile strike, and the rest of the week’s top stories

Plus: Robert Irwin (1928–2023), Italy appoints right-wing journalist as Venice Biennale director and the rest of the week’s top stories

Plus: The Cleveland Museum of Art is suing the Manhattan DA’s office and bomb threats have led to multiple evacuations of Versailles and the Louvre

Plus: France and German set up a joint fund to research colonial provenance and hoard of coins with links to the Glencoe massacre discovered in Scotland

Plus: Carnegie Museum of Natural History will no longer show humans remains and US tourist smashes Roman statues in the Israel Museum

Plus: curator in Florida fired over provenance concerns, Guy Wildenstein on trial again in Paris, and the rest of the week’s top stories

Plus: British Museum appoints new acting deputy director amid scandal; Christie’s cancels further sales from the collection of Heidi Horten, and the rest of the week’s art news

Plus: South-east Asian countries are demanding return of looted objects from Denver Art Museum, and the rest of the week’s top stories

Plus: the gallerist Angela Flowers has died at the age of 90 and the Orlando Museum of Art is suing its former director over an alleged scheme to sell forged Basquiats

Plus: Ukrainian government releases online database of artworks in the possession of Russian nationals, and the rest of the week’s top stories

Plus: two looted sculptures returned to Libya, the Dutch national photography museum to receive a new home, and the rest of the week’s top stories

Plus: a Pistoletto sculpture has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack and Simon Lee Gallery has been placed under administration

Plus: report outlines destruction of cultural property in Sudan and Michael Kauffmann (1931–2023)

Plus: Austrian government proposes new restitution laws and the rest of the week’s top stories

Plus: climate activists smear paint on a Monet, Maurizio Cattelan’s banana wins a lawsuit, and the rest of the week’s top stories

Plus: Françoise Gilot (1921–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories