Briefing

In further news: Syria’s National Museum in Damascus reopens; and a protest at the British Museum’s protest-themed show

In further news: German pavilion announces artist for Venice; Emmanuel Macron urges art world to fight extremism

In further news: world’s biggest arts venue lands in Taiwan; Brooklyn’s Signal gallery to close

In further news: Tate remembers London’s forgotten women heroes; Pop artist Mel Ramos dies aged 83

In further news: Pro-refugee obelisk to stay in Kassel, Natural History Museum under fire over Saudi event

In further news: San Francisco decrees 30 percent of public art must depict women; Dutch museums find Nazi-looted art

In further news: Rachel Maclean speaks out against ‘male dominated’ art world; Museo del Prado completes Bruegel restoration

In further news: The Met to include Native art in American wing; Nan Goldin’s cameo on HBO’s ‘The Deuce’

In further news: collector joins Mapplethorpe censorship row; new space for Bronx Museum of the Arts

In further news: Activists protest Luke Willis Thompson at Turner Prize exhibition opening; Helena Almeida (1934–2018)

In further news: artist’s plan to rebuild Berlin Wall shut down; and did Caravaggio die of stab wounds or syphilis?

In further news: Steve McQueen to show thousands of school portraits at Tate; Robert Venturi (1925–2018)

In further news: Cuban activists’s manifesto against cultural censorship; the Reina Sofía’s plan to protect Guernica

In further news: Brazilians crowdsource images of artefacts lost in museum fire; Jan Fabre accused of sexual harassment

In further news: trailer for Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf’s exhibition debut in Vienna; Pussy Riot members arrested in Moscow

And in further news: gender disparity at Rencontres d’Arles; London’s Royal Academy to be flooded with water and mud

In further news: British cultural figures demand justice for Shahidul Alam; Beijing’s Ullens Centre plans second museum

In further news: Simone Leigh commissioned for High Line Plinth; Seoul Museum of Art director suspended over harassment claim

In further news: National Portrait Gallery’s visitor decline due to counting ‘error’; Berlin’s Arratia Beer gallery closes

In further news: Cuban artists fight for creative freedom; in London, plans to relocate suffragette statue met with anger