Briefing

In further news: V&A acquires Extinction Rebellion artefacts; Baltimore Museum of Art launches Matisse research centre

In further news: Nicky Morgan, who once suggested the arts ‘held back’ pupils, is appointed UK culture secretary

In further news: Marisa Merz (1926-2019); and artists withdraw from Whitney Biennial

In further news: Ai Weiwei wins court case against VW; proposal for Boston slave auction block memorial withdrawn

In further news: Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’ film gets museum tour; Cézanne landscapes reunited 140 years later

In further news: British Museum director defends BP sponsorship; David Zwirner to open in Paris

In further news: British Museum to help return looted Buddhist heads from Afghanistan; Pace closes Beijing outpost

In further news: Southbank creative director warns of ‘cultural apartheid’; Uffizi and Accademia in Florence to merge management

In further news: global fund to preserve significant landmarks in war zones; New Museum to double exhibition space

In further news: a spotlight on arts and oil sponsorship; Ai Weiwei to direct ‘Turandot’

In further news: British Library shares conservation expertise with Palestinian Museum; Talmud scholars defend resigned director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum

In further news: Humboldt Forum delays opening; Venice’s Lithuanian Pavilion to stage additional performances

In further news: Tate collection heads to Shanghai’s Pudong Museum of Art; photojournalist Newsha Tavakolian banned from working in Iran

In further news: trouble at the 58th Venice Biennale’s Lithuanian Pavilion; Lubaina Himid describes Turner Prize win as ‘bittersweet’

In further news: Baltimore Museum of Art announces city-wide survey; Lonnie Bunch becomes first African American to head Smithsonian

In further news: Chinese filmmaker Huang Huang arrested; Germany to return 15th-century stone cross to Namibia

In further news: British Museum considers return of ‘invisible’ Christian plaques to Ethiopia; further protests against Whitney vice chair

In further news: Met rejects Sackler gifts; Indigenous Womxn’s Collective protests Warren B. Kanders at Whitney Biennial opening

In further news: Giudecca Art District opens in Venice; gallery sued over fake Bonnard; Decolonize This Place activist arrested

In further news: decline in arts industry hiring; call for MoMA to divest from private prison companies