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The week in art news – Macklowe collection sells for record-breaking $922m

Plus: Angus Grossart has died at the age of 85 | Brazilian curator resigns amid MASP controversy | Protest takes place outside the Whitney | Ukrainian soldiers discover ancient artefacts in Odessa

The week in art news – Deborah Swallow to retire as director of the Courtauld Institute

Plus: Ukraine demolishes statue symbolising friendship with Russia and winners of the competition to renew the Barbican Centre announced

The week in art news – Turner Prize shortlist announced

Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival

The week in art news – Getty Trust appoints Katherine Fleming as president

Plus: Charles Darwin’s stolen notebooks returned to Cambridge University | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego reopens | Finland seizes art shipments from Russia worth €42m

US Supreme Court to rule on dispute over Warhol’s use of Prince photograph

Plus: The Met has returned two statues to Libya and Qatar is to build three new museums in Doha

The week in art news – Mariupol art school bombed with civilians sheltering inside

Plus: Bonhams acquires Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen | Budi Tek (1957–2022) | Planning permission granted for Madison Square Garden Sphere in East London 

The week in art news – France launches emergency fund for Ukrainian artists

Plus: MoMA to review security protocols after recent stabbings and Francis Kéré wins Pritzker Architecture Prize

The week in art news – Ukrainians try to safeguard cultural heritage

The week in art news – Unesco voices concern for Ukrainian heritage sites

The week in art news – Ukrainian museums try to protect their collections

Plus: a Neolithic site has been discovered in Jordan and the Weltmuseum’s audioguide was hacked by activitists

Met acquires much-coveted Renaissance roundel for $23m

The second most expensive purchase the Met has ever made is a stunning Italian bronze – and efforts to keep it in the UK have come to nothing

Belgium hands over full inventory of objects to DRC

Plus: Carmen Herrera (1915–2022) and David Zwirner becomes latest gallery to announce a branch in Los Angeles

The week in art news – SFMOMA appoints Christopher Bedford as director

Plus: Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale to merge and Jonathan Watkins to step down as director of Ikon

The week in art news – UK government announces ‘levelling-up’ plans

The week in art news – Art Basel owner bumps FIAC from its slot with a new Paris fair

Plus: Art Basel Hong Kong postponed to May and France to restitute 15 works looted by the Nazis

The week in art news – TEFAF Maastricht moves to June, now jam-packed with fairs

Plus: The Courtauld Institute and Kings College London have announced a 10-year ‘strategic partnership’

The week in art news – Colston Four cleared of criminal damage

Plus: Iwona Blazwick to step down as director of Whitechapel Gallery, and more of the week’s top stories

The week in art news – Danish and Dutch museums close in lockdowns

Plus: TEFAF and Salon du Dessin have been postponed, bell hooks (1952–2021), and more of the week’s top stories

The week in art news – Metropolitan Museum of Art to remove Sackler name from its galleries

Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts

The week in art news – Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021)

The week in art news – Austrian museums close in national lockdown

Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland

The week in art news – Jimmie Durham (1940–2021)

Plus: Etel Adnan (1925–2021); and more art news

The week in art news – UK government rejects ‘Tulip’ skyscraper

Plus: Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021); and more news