Plus: Smithsonian board votes to return 29 Benin Bronzes | UK places a temporary export bar on £19m Poussin painting | Marina Lambraki-Plaka, the director of the National Gallery in Athens, has died at the age of 83
The Portuguese-British painter renowned worldwide for her vivid and unsettling fairy-tale visions has died at the age of 87
Plus: the art dealer Inigo Philbrick has been sentenced to seven years in prison | The new French culture minister is Rima Abdul Malak
Plus: Angus Grossart has died at the age of 85 | Brazilian curator resigns amid MASP controversy | Protest takes place outside the Whitney | Ukrainian soldiers discover ancient artefacts in Odessa
Plus: Ukraine demolishes statue symbolising friendship with Russia and winners of the competition to renew the Barbican Centre announced
Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival
Plus: Charles Darwin’s stolen notebooks returned to Cambridge University | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego reopens | Finland seizes art shipments from Russia worth €42m
Plus: The Met has returned two statues to Libya and Qatar is to build three new museums in Doha
Plus: Bonhams acquires Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen | Budi Tek (1957–2022) | Planning permission granted for Madison Square Garden Sphere in East London
Plus: MoMA to review security protocols after recent stabbings and Francis Kéré wins Pritzker Architecture Prize
Plus: a Neolithic site has been discovered in Jordan and the Weltmuseum’s audioguide was hacked by activitists
The second most expensive purchase the Met has ever made is a stunning Italian bronze – and efforts to keep it in the UK have come to nothing
Plus: Carmen Herrera (1915–2022) and David Zwirner becomes latest gallery to announce a branch in Los Angeles
Plus: Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale to merge and Jonathan Watkins to step down as director of Ikon
Plus: Art Basel Hong Kong postponed to May and France to restitute 15 works looted by the Nazis
Plus: The Courtauld Institute and Kings College London have announced a 10-year ‘strategic partnership’
Plus: Iwona Blazwick to step down as director of Whitechapel Gallery, and more of the week’s top stories
Plus: TEFAF and Salon du Dessin have been postponed, bell hooks (1952–2021), and more of the week’s top stories
Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts
Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland
