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The week in art news – Germany and Nigeria sign draft agreement for return of Benin Bronzes

Plus: Atta Kwami (1956–2001) and Biden restores federal protections for Utah national monuments

The week in art news – City of London to keep statues with slavery links

Plus: Biden nominates chairs of the NEA and NEH and Mark Roglán, director of the Meadows Museum, has died

The week in art news – Spanish government finally approves funds for Prado expansion

Plus: Danish museum and artist in dispute over two blank canvases; and more stories

The week in art news – Firstsite wins Artfund Museum of the Year award

Plus: John Booth appointed chair of the National Gallery in London and more stories

The week in art news – Nadine Dorries appointed UK culture secretary

Plus: Christophe Leribault appointed director of the Musée d’Orsay; and more stories

The week in art news – Klaus Biesenbach appointed director of Neue Nationalgalerie

Plus: Maqdala objects privately restituted to Ethiopia | Cao Fei wins Deutsche Börse photography prize

Art Basel seeks to reassure nervous exhibitors ahead of fair

Plus: MOCA LA names its first executive director, the Robert E. Lee statue can be removed from Richmond, and more stories

The week in art news – fears grow for the safety of cultural workers in Afghanistan

Plus: Amsterdam is to return a Kandinsky to the heirs of its former owner

The week in art news – Chuck Close (1940–2021)

The week in art news – deputy leader of Westminster Council resigns over Marble Arch Mound fiasco

Plus: new directors of the Southbank Centre in London and ICP in New York, and other stories

The week in art news – Stonehenge road tunnel ruled unlawful, but plans still going ahead

Plus: More than 17,000 looted artefacts returned to Iraq

The week in art news – Science Museum signed gagging clause in sponsorship agreement with Shell

Plus: Phillip King (1934–2021) and Xavier Rey appointed director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris

Liverpool loses Unesco World Heritage status

Plus: France requires vaccine passports for cultural venues and more than 1,000 Polish cultural figures criticise dismissal of museum director

The week in art news – Christian Boltanski (1944–2021)

Plus: Kunsthaus Zürich appoints Ann Demeester as its new director and Charlottesville takes down statue of Robert E. Lee

The week in art news – White House sets terms for sales of Hunter Biden’s paintings

Plus: South Korea is to build a new museum for the Samsung art collection and the co-directors of Artangel are stepping down after 30 years

The week in art news – In Canada, protestors topple statues of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II

Plus: Berlin Museums may return Benin Bronzes as early as next year and a construction worker has admitted stealing a Picasso and a Mondrian from the National Gallery in Athens

The week in art news – George Osborne to chair the board of the British Museum

Plus: Teddy Roosevelt’s statue will lose its spot outside the American Museum of Natural History, and more stories

The week in art news – Artes Mundi Prize awarded to all six shortlisted artists

Plus: MacKenzie Scott donates $2.7bn to a host of charities, including more than 60 cultural organisations

The week in art news – staff accuse Barbican Centre of being institutionally racist

Plus: the Met returns two Benin Bronzes, Donald Judd’s office in Marfa severely damaged in fire, and more stories

The week in art news – frustrated Belgian experts issue their own restitution guidelines

Plus: The Whitney has voluntarily recognised a union and Hobby Lobby is suing Dirk Obbink over alleged papyrus theft

The week in art news – Laurence des Cars becomes first woman to lead Louvre

Plus: chairs of the National Gallery and the National Trust resign; and more stories

The week in art news – in Oxford, Rhodes won’t fall after all

The week in art news – UK government approves Whitechapel Bell Foundry becoming a boutique hotel

Plus: NGA Washington appoints E. Carmen Ramos chief curator and more stories