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
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
Plus: Centre Pompidou to close for three years of renovations | TEFAF Maastricht postponed to September | City of Bruges to build major new exhibition space
Plus: Bozar damaged by fire | and City of London to remove statues with slavery links
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’
