Plus: More than 17,000 looted artefacts returned to Iraq
Plus: Phillip King (1934–2021) and Xavier Rey appointed director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris
Plus: France requires vaccine passports for cultural venues and more than 1,000 Polish cultural figures criticise dismissal of museum director
Plus: Kunsthaus Zürich appoints Ann Demeester as its new director and Charlottesville takes down statue of Robert E. Lee
Plus: South Korea is to build a new museum for the Samsung art collection and the co-directors of Artangel are stepping down after 30 years
Plus: Berlin Museums may return Benin Bronzes as early as next year and a construction worker has admitted stealing a Picasso and a Mondrian from the National Gallery in Athens
Plus: Teddy Roosevelt’s statue will lose its spot outside the American Museum of Natural History, and more stories
Plus: MacKenzie Scott donates $2.7bn to a host of charities, including more than 60 cultural organisations
Plus: the Met returns two Benin Bronzes, Donald Judd’s office in Marfa severely damaged in fire, and more stories
Plus: The Whitney has voluntarily recognised a union and Hobby Lobby is suing Dirk Obbink over alleged papyrus theft
Plus: chairs of the National Gallery and the National Trust resign; and more stories
Plus: NGA Washington appoints E. Carmen Ramos chief curator and more stories
Plus: the Istanbul Biennial has been postponed to 2022, and more stories
Plus: Samsung heirs to donate 23,000 artworks to South Korean museums to settle tax bill, and more stories
Plus: museums across Germany to close again this weekend, and more stories
Plus: French court rules that commercial galleries must remain closed, and more stories
Plus: French galleries are suing the government to reopen, Egypt moves its royal mummies in a a televised extravaganza, and more stories
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
