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In further news: staff at LA MoCA take steps to unionize; Hetain Patel wins Film London Jarman Award

In further news: LA MoCA’s free admission starts in January 2020; Manchester Museum returns sacred Aboriginal artefacts

In further news: Baltimore Museum of Art to only acquire works by female artists in 2020; Nan Goldin leads die-in at V&A

Iraq pavilion at Venice closes in solidarity with protests; Gus Casely-Hayford to head up V&A East

In further news: Okwui Enwezor’s final exhibition; Marciano Art Foundation staffers push to unionize

In further news: major study into arts and mental health launched; artist pulls out of MoMA PS1 exhibition over alleged prison links

In further news: National Gallery facing Brexit shipping difficulties; beetle named in honour of Greta Thunberg

In further news: artists call for cultural boycott of Turkey; secret of the Bayeux Tapestry revealed

In further news: ancient artefacts destroyed by jihadists resurrected; naked activists protest National Portrait Gallery’s links to BP

In further news: Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel prizes in literature; ‘censored’ Aichi Triennale reopened

In further news: ImageNet removes 600,000 images after art project reveals AI racial bias; Olafur Eliasson appointed UN ambassador

In further news: David Adjaye tipped to design Nigerian museum for looted Benin treasures; Hillary Clinton reads her emails in Venice

In further news: The Met is hiring its first full-time curator of Native American art; Michael Rakowitz named Nasher Prize laureate

In further news: Caroline Lucas to curate exhibition; Australian gallery defends itself against self-censorship claims

In further news: Greece in discussion with France about Parthenon frieze loan; ICA LA plan to become first solar powered museum

In further news: UK museum under fire for using facial-recognition surveillance; ‘Maus’ author Art Spiegelman says Marvel censored Trump criticism

In further news: Estate claims Robert Indiana spent last years ‘in squalor’; original sketches discovered beneath Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’

In further news: London mayor backs proposal for new slavery museum to fight racism; fire at Singapore Art Museum

In further news: Steve McQueen’s school photographs to take over London billboards; censorship at Japan’s Aichi Triennale

In further news: Baltimore Museum of Art announces year of exhibitions devoted to women artists; Apple launches series of AR art walks