Plus: the White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts; and a US climate protestor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
Plus: the Louvre director offers to resign in the wake of the jewel theft, and plans to build a tunnel under Stonehenge have been quashed
Masked thieves broke into the Gallery of Apollo on Sunday and made off with eight priceless pieces
Plus: Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant, and Manhattan DA’s Office returns 29 antiquities to Greece
Plus: Frieze is launching its first fair in the Middle East, and the film-maker Ken Jacobs has died at the age of 92
Plus: a Moscow court has sentenced the director of a museum in Estonia to 10 years in prison in absentia
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: 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
