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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

Pinault collection opening in Paris postponed to spring 2021

Getty postpones all public events until after end of August

Art news daily: 14 April

Survey warns a third of French galleries may close before 2021

Art news daily: 9 April

Fire at construction site of Humboldt Forum in Berlin

Art news daily: 8 April

Opening of Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza postponed until 2021

Art news daily: 7 April

Whitney lays off 76 staff members

Art news daily: 6 April

Getty Trust creates $10m fund for arts organisations in Los Angeles

Art news daily: 3 April

National Trust for Scotland appoints Philip Long as chief executive

Art news daily: 2 April

Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage saved for the nation

Art news daily: 1 April

Alan Jones steps down temporarily as president of RIBA

Art news daily: 31 March