Plus: Berlin Museums may return Benin Bronzes as early as next year and a construction worker has admitted stealing a Picasso and a Mondrian from the National Gallery in Athens
Plus: Teddy Roosevelt’s statue will lose its spot outside the American Museum of Natural History, and more stories
Plus: MacKenzie Scott donates $2.7bn to a host of charities, including more than 60 cultural organisations
Plus: the Met returns two Benin Bronzes, Donald Judd’s office in Marfa severely damaged in fire, and more stories
Plus: The Whitney has voluntarily recognised a union and Hobby Lobby is suing Dirk Obbink over alleged papyrus theft
Plus: chairs of the National Gallery and the National Trust resign; and more stories
Plus: NGA Washington appoints E. Carmen Ramos chief curator and more stories
Plus: the Istanbul Biennial has been postponed to 2022, and more stories
Plus: Samsung heirs to donate 23,000 artworks to South Korean museums to settle tax bill, and more stories
Plus: museums across Germany to close again this weekend, and more stories
Plus: French court rules that commercial galleries must remain closed, and more stories
Plus: French galleries are suing the government to reopen, Egypt moves its royal mummies in a a televised extravaganza, and more stories
Plus: Mali and Unesco receive symbolic reparations for Timbuktu destruction, France pledges €500,000 for Sursock Museum repairs, and more stories
The German government has reportedly been in talks about the return of German-held Benin Bronzes, raising hopes of their imminent restitution
Plus: V&A pauses plans to make National Art Library staff redundant | Lacaton & Vassal win Pritzker Architecture Prize | and David Alan Harvey resigns from Magnum
Plus: V&A to merge departments and cut 140 jobs | UK government announces £390m to help arts venues reopen | Alan Bowness (1928–2021) | and missing Jacob Lawrence painting discovered in Manhattan
The panel from one of the American painter’s great narrative series is the second to have shown up by chance in quick succession
Plus: Swiss museums reopen next week, while UK museums must wait until May | Experts confirm message on The Scream is by Munch | and National Gallery in London and Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin update Hugh Lane bequest deal
Experts have confirmed that the writing on The Scream is in Munch’s handwriting
Plus: National Gallery in London launches design competition to rethink Sainsbury Wing, and more stories
Plus: Getty Trust launches $38.5m LA arts recovery fund | Neal Benezra to depart as head of SFMoMA | Mayor of London names members of diversity commission | CEO of Royal British Columbia Museum resigns after racism inquiry
