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The week in art news – Kevin Young appointed director of Smithsonian’s African American history museum

The week in art news – Philip Guston show postponed to 2024

The week in art news – Brooklyn Museum to sell 12 works at auction

The week in art news – mining company chief resigns after destruction of sacred Australian sites

The week in art news – Art Basel Miami Beach cancelled

The week in art news – the Whitney cancels ‘Collective Actions’ exhibition after criticism

The week in art news – Tate to make almost half of its commercial staff redundant

Plus: houses in Old City of Sanaa collapse after heavy rains, and current and former MMFA staff support sacking of Nathalie Bondil

The week in art news – museums and galleries destroyed in blast that devastated Beirut

Plus: Southbank Centre staff castigate management, major US museums make more staff redundant and artefacts privately restituted to Ecuador

The week in art news – National Trust considering up to 1,200 redundancies

Plus: the House of Representatives has approved the National Museum for the American Latino, murals by Picasso have been removed from a building in Oslo, and more art news

The week in art news – arson suspected in Nantes Cathedral fire

Plus: Gavin Brown is shutting down his gallery, and the rest of the week’s art news

The week in art news – Hagia Sophia to be turned back into mosque

Plus: James Murdoch’s firm to invest in MCH Group, Frieze fairs in London cancelled, and more art news

The week in art news – UK government promises £1.57bn emergency funding for arts sector

Plus: Roselyne Bachelot named France's new culture minister, outdoor performances to resume in England, and more art news

The week in art news – UK museums and galleries announce plans for reopening

Plus: Milton Glaser (1929–2020), French dealer who sold gold coffin to the Met charged with fraud, and more art news

The week in art news – UK museums and galleries to reopen from 4 July

Plus: American Museum of Natural History to remove statue of Theodore Roosevelt | Guggenheim curatorial staff demand end of ‘discriminatory practices’ | Philadelphia Museum of Art to cut staff by more than 20 per cent | The Met plans to reopen at end of August

The week in art news – Oxford college backs calls to remove Rhodes statue

Plus: Amazon boss appointed director of Natural History Museum, and more art news

The week in art news – statue of slave trader toppled in Bristol in Black Lives Matter protest

Plus: Art Basel cancels 2020 edition of flagship fair, further redundancies at SFMOMA, and more art news

The week in art news – Governor of Virginia orders removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue

Plus: Christo (1935–2020), interior designer jailed for buying a Rothko with a stolen identity, and more art news

The week in art news – Gurlitt hoard investigation wound up

Plus: Turner Prize 2020 cancelled, Italian judges back right-wing institute against the ministry of culture, and more art news

The week in art news – Susan Rothenberg (1945–2020)

Plus: the MFA Houston is the first major US museum to reopen, the Venice Art and Architecture Biennales have been postponed, and Hobby Lobby is suing Christie's

The week in art news – UK galleries and auction houses to reopen from 1 June

The week in art news

The week in art news – MoMA takes a ‘chainsaw’ to its budget

Plus: auction houses prepare to reopen, Cathie Pilkington becomes keeper of the RA, and more art news

The week in art news – Germano Celant (1940–2020)

Plus: Zarina (1937–2020), museums in Italy and Belgium set reopening dates, and more art stories from around the world

The week in art news – museums in Germany prepare to reopen

The week in art news: 24 April