Plus: US officials recover $1.2m Picasso drawing and Venice’s tourist tax has raised much more than expected
Plus: UK government reintroduces Holocaust Memorial Bill; and video artist Bill Viola has died at the age of 73
Plus: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a new president, and a 4,000-year-old temple and theatre complex is unearthed in northern Peru
Plus: Documenta appoints new search committee for an artist director | Jacqueline de Jong (1939–2024)
Plus: Eike Schmidt loses bid to become mayor of Florence; and US Supreme Court reverses a ruling that protected Sackler family from civil lawsuits
Plus: Matthew Teitelbaum, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is stepping down; and the art dealer Barbara Gladstone has died
Plus: Dealers Robilant+Voena hit by employee lawsuit, and French Fluxus artist Ben Vautier has died at the age of 88
Plus: the classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman has died at the age of 96
Plus: the Manhattan District Attorney returns 133 antiquities to Pakistan | and Brooke Lampley, global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby’s, is moving to Gagosian
Plus: Vatican Museums employees bring legal action over working conditions, and the film-maker Mohammad Rasoulof has been smuggled out of Iran
Plus: two Just Stop Oil protestors in their eighties attempt to break the glass protecting the Magna Carta, and 3,000-year-old gold jewellery has been stolen from Ely Museum
Plus: the historic Copenhagen stock exchange building has been devastated by a fire
Plus: Christie’s withdraws four Greek vases from auction and strike at National Museums Liverpool is set to continue
Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator
The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
Plus: Met employees and volunteers call for the museum to defend Palestinian cultural heritage, and Russian security forces raid artists’s homes before the presidential elections
Plus: tax relief for museums and galleries in the UK is made permanent, and Lucas Samaras (1936–2024)
Plus: The Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben has died after being unable to leave Gaza for medical treatment
Plus: The V&A gets another chance to keep its 12th-century walrus ivory carving
Plus: Mick Moon (1937–2024), and a round-up of the week’s most important museum appointments
Plus: a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll has been decoded and the CEO of Bonhams has resigned
