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: Sotheby’s has returned gems linked to the Buddha to India; and the artist, playwright and theatre director Robert Wilson has died at the age of 83
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
Plus: archaeologists uncover a 3,500-year-old city in Peru; and Wael Shawky will be the first artist to curate an Art Basel fair
Plus: Blum is closing its galleries in Los Angeles and Tokyo; and Heather Gerken will be the Ford Foundation’s next president
Plus: Vancouver Art Gallery lays off 30 staff, Xavier F. Salomon is new director of Gulbenkian Museum, and Ostend City Council cancels Hew Locke commission
Plus: UN report condemns Israeli destruction of cultural sites in Gaza strip, and Louvre staff stage spontaneous strike
Plus: Plus: French duo convicted of faking 18th-century furniture, and ZERO Group artist Günther Uecker has died at the age of 95
Plus: UK cultural institutions defend corporate sponsors, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director still in post after Trump’s firing by social media
Plus: lost Mayan city discovered in Guatemala, and investment company set to buy Artnet and take it private
Plus: chair of Creative Australia resigns in Venice Biennale controversy | directors of Jewish museum in Washington condemn murder of Israeli embassy staff outside building
Plus: UK government puts export bar on Botticelli painting | Lindokuhle Sobekwa wins Deutsche Börse photography prize
Helen Frankenthaler and Andy Warhol Foundations cover cancelled NEA grants, and Kress Foundation president and former Walters Museum director, Julia Alexander, has died at the age of 57
Plus: the video artist Dara Birnbaum has died; and the journalist Wolfram Weimer will be Germany’s next minister for culture
Plus: the Art Institute of Chicago has been ordered to surrender an Egon Schiele work; and Guy Ullens, a major collector of contemporary Chinese art, has died
Plus: the global value of art sales has fallen by 12 per cent, and Pierre Terjanian will be the next director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Plus: director of National Museum of African American History and Culture resigns, and Bavaria’s culture minister promises reform of State Paintings Collection after allegations of institutional failure
