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The week in art news – US museums vote against permanent easing of deaccessioning guidelines

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

The week in art news – Christie’s sells jpeg by digital artist for a record $69m

The week in art news – museums in Germany to open from Monday

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

Missing Jacob Lawrence painting discovered in Manhattan apartment

The panel from one of the American painter’s great narrative series is the second to have shown up by chance in quick succession

The week in art news – Amnesty report points to massacre in Ethiopian town of Axum

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 confirm Edvard Munch wrote secret message on The Scream

Experts have confirmed that the writing on The Scream is in Munch’s handwriting

The week in art news – head of Indianapolis Museum of Art resigns after controversial job ad

Plus: National Gallery in London launches design competition to rethink Sainsbury Wing, and more stories

The week in art news – far-right French mayor reopens museums in defiance of Covid shutdown

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

The week in art news – US Supreme Court rules for Germany in Guelph Treasure case

Plus: Germany announces a second €1bn bailout for culture | Dutch government agrees to return all stolen objects to former colonies | and French museums press for reopening

The week in art news – Botticelli painting sells for $92m at auction

Plus: Centre Pompidou to close for three years of renovations | TEFAF Maastricht postponed to September | City of Bruges to build major new exhibition space

The week in art news – Art Basel postponed to September

Plus: Bozar damaged by fire | and City of London to remove statues with slavery links

The week in art news – world’s oldest animal painting found in Indonesia

Plus: Smithsonian scales back $2bn redevelopment plan | Naomi Beckwith appointed deputy director and chief curator of Guggenheim | and Champs-Élysées to be turned into ‘extraordinary garden’

The week in art news – Indian Supreme Court approves plans for new parliament complex

Bill restituting artefacts to Benin and Senegal passes into French law

The week in art news – lone US senator blocks bills to create national Latino and women’s museums

The week in art news – Tate to cut 120 gallery jobs to reduce losses

The week in art news – continuing restrictions mean a patchy reopening for European museums

The week in art news – Smithsonian and other US museums close amid Covid surge

The week in art news – controversial road tunnel near Stonehenge gets the go-ahead

The week in art news – museums and galleries in England close in new lockdown

The week in art news – Baltimore Museum of Art pulls works from controversial sale

The week in art news – Marian Goodman closes London gallery

Plus: Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning sales, and more recent stories

The week in art news – museums in Northern Ireland to close for four weeks

The Brooklyn Museum is to sell another round of works from its collection, and more recent stories