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All-out strike at the National Gallery; Gulf Labor in Venice; €80million for cultural projects in Italy; and a new Global CEO for Bonhams

Tate Britain appoints its next director; Ai Weiwei denied a six-month visa by UK government; Paolozzi’s London Underground murals relocate to Edinburgh; and the National Gallery makes an unusual painting purchase

Cuban government returns Tania Bruguera’s passport; Gerhard Richter threatens to pull loaned artworks from German museums; Douglas Gordon attacks theatre with axe

British Museum highlights could be sent to Abu Dhabi; Iranian artist imprisoned for ‘insulting the Supreme Leader’; MoMA staff stage protests

Fears for Palmyra as Islamic State militants seize neighbouring town; Anne Pasternak takes over at the Brooklyn Museum; Abramovic and Jay Z have a very public spat

It’s party week in New York and Venice, but there’s angst in Madrid

IS demolishes the ancient city of Nimrud; Günter Grass dies aged 87; art trumps privacy in US court ruling; and don’t mention the Elgin Marbles

Tate Britain director and RA curator head for Europe; LACMA teams up with Hyundai; the UK’s fight to keep an ancient Egyptian statue continues; plus our favourite April Fools

Art news: English Heritage to split in two; Romania’s silence over Brancusi statue sale; Cézanne sketches discovered at the Barnes Foundation

Sponsorship, strikes and self-censorship in London’s top museums; the Smithsonian’s international expansion; Tutankhamun’s broken beard

The British Museum lends a Parthenon marble to Russia; the Cooper Hewitt reopens in New York; and another art theft in Italy

News from the art world: art awards, auction records, and a royal stamp of approval

Major gifts, controversial sales and record-breaking auctions

Some of the stories and discussions we’ve spotted online this week: Could ‘orphan’ artworks be brought in from the cold?…

Rene Burri dies aged 81; Nicholas Serota takes the Power 100 top spot; and Detroit makes a last-minute deal

Frieze Week; Burrell at Bonhams; Venice at risk; a public art challenge; and the art of slowing down