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
Plus: Etel Adnan (1925–2021); and more art news
Plus: Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021); and more news
Plus: Humboldt Forum to remove medallion honouring donor with far-right views, and more stories
Plus: Dutch court rules for return of Crimean artefacts to Ukraine, and more stories
Centre Pompidou postpones renovations until after Paris Olympics, and the Ahmanson Foundation partners with the Huntington Library
Plus: Atta Kwami (1956–2001) and Biden restores federal protections for Utah national monuments
Plus: Biden nominates chairs of the NEA and NEH and Mark Roglán, director of the Meadows Museum, has died