Plus: Vatican Museums employees bring legal action over working conditions, and the film-maker Mohammad Rasoulof has been smuggled out of Iran
Plus: two Just Stop Oil protestors in their eighties attempt to break the glass protecting the Magna Carta, and 3,000-year-old gold jewellery has been stolen from Ely Museum
Plus: the historic Copenhagen stock exchange building has been devastated by a fire
Plus: Christie’s withdraws four Greek vases from auction and strike at National Museums Liverpool is set to continue
Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator
The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
Plus: Met employees and volunteers call for the museum to defend Palestinian cultural heritage, and Russian security forces raid artists’s homes before the presidential elections
Plus: tax relief for museums and galleries in the UK is made permanent, and Lucas Samaras (1936–2024)
Plus: The Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben has died after being unable to leave Gaza for medical treatment
Plus: The V&A gets another chance to keep its 12th-century walrus ivory carving
Plus: Mick Moon (1937–2024), and a round-up of the week’s most important museum appointments
Plus: a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll has been decoded and the CEO of Bonhams has resigned
Plus: Rubin Museum to sell its building and move to touring model | Pompidou staff settle three-month strike and claim victory
Plus: V&A and British Museum lend Asante regalia to Ghana for the first time | Temple to Ram inaugurated on site of Mughal-era mosque in Ayodhya
Plus: art dealer Brent Sikkema found dead in Brazil | Scottish museums face funding crisis
Plus: artists in Berlin protest against funding requirement to sign anti-Semitism clause | and Freeman’s and Hindman auction houses are to merge
Plus: Poland withdraws its Biennale submission | swingeing cuts to UK arts budgets by local councils cuts continue | and Ian Wardropper to retire as Frick director
Plus: the Academy of Arts in Berlin warns against violations of civil liberties in Germany and the Met returns 14 trafficked artefacts to Cambodia and Thailand
Plus: the new president of Argentina has abolished the ministry of culture | and Notre-Dame is to reopen in December 2024
Plus: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts restitutes 44 antiquities | Jesse Darling wins the Turner Prize | and more art news
Plus: Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) | Dutch museum returns Scythian gold artefacts to Ukraine | and the rest of the week’s art news
