Plus: the British Museum admits that it broke the law; and Kasper König (1943–2024)
Plus: Harvard refuses to remove Sackler name from university art museum, and Slovak culture minister fires director of the national gallery
UK government scraps Stonehenge tunnel, and American Museum of Natural History repatriates the remains of 124 individuals
Plus: US officials recover $1.2m Picasso drawing and Venice’s tourist tax has raised much more than expected
Plus: UK government reintroduces Holocaust Memorial Bill; and video artist Bill Viola has died at the age of 73
Plus: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a new president, and a 4,000-year-old temple and theatre complex is unearthed in northern Peru
Plus: Documenta appoints new search committee for an artist director | Jacqueline de Jong (1939–2024)
Plus: Eike Schmidt loses bid to become mayor of Florence; and US Supreme Court reverses a ruling that protected Sackler family from civil lawsuits
Plus: Matthew Teitelbaum, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is stepping down; and the art dealer Barbara Gladstone has died
Plus: Dealers Robilant+Voena hit by employee lawsuit, and French Fluxus artist Ben Vautier has died at the age of 88
Plus: the classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman has died at the age of 96
Plus: the Manhattan District Attorney returns 133 antiquities to Pakistan | and Brooke Lampley, global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby’s, is moving to Gagosian
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
