Briefing

In further news: MoMA to temporarily close; David Adjaye calls for museum championing black British culture

In further news: calls to close tax loopholes for art-filled ‘freeports’; Elmgreen & Dragset memorial to gay Holocaust victims vandalized

In further news: EU parliament calls for Nazi-looted art to be returned; and are art museums becoming more diverse?

In further news: New Museum workers vote to unionize; Amanda Schmitt appeals dismissal of Artforum suit

In further news: Lehmann Maupin gallery sues former employee for stealing ‘trade secrets’; was Robert Indiana in control of his final artworks?

In further news: vandalism at Denver Art Museum; LA MoCA to close Pacific Design Center; Saudi flag sculpture removed from Ground Zero

In further news: painting stolen from New York’s Team Gallery; Harlem’s El Museo del Barrio pulls honour for right-wing socialite

In further news: gallery sues Christie’s over ‘bargain basement’ Francis Bacon sale; Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ heads to Japan

In further news: Beatrix Ruf and Stedelijk agree to ‘leave past behind’; Gaurav Bhatia departs Sotheby’s India after #MeToo allegations

In further news: a conspicuous absence in Munich’s Haus Der Kunst’s 2019 programming; US government shutdown forces Smithsonian museums to close

In further news: Strasbourg Biennale postponed after shootings; Ai Weiwei’s human rights flag

In further news: Kasper König under fire for alleged racist comments; Israel urges Germany to defund Berlin’s Jewish Museum

In further news: Lothar Baumgarten dies at 74; Decolonize This Place plan Whitney protest; Italy demands return of Getty Bronze

In further news: Paris museums close after Gilets Jaunes protests; Candice Breitz demands release of aid worker

In further news: badger-hair paintbrushes linked to animal cruelty; Sotheby’s India hit by #MeToo claims

In further news: artists take National Gallery to court; Tel Aviv protests over ‘loyalty in culture’ bill

In further news: fears grow over ‘Salvator Mundi’; Dutch government face Nazi-art lawsuit; heritage sites lost in Yemen war

Zoe Leonard’s landmark poem revived following US midterms, Turkish arts workers arrested and union protests at MoMA PS1

In further news: Italian government cracks down on art crime; and screening live arts performances fails to diversify audiences 

In further news: cultural figures demand resignation of Germany’s foreign minister; Joan Miró paintings damaged in Venice floods