Briefing

In further news: UK class gap impacting young people’s engagement with the arts; Uffizi goes digital; British Museum helps return Iraqi antiquities

Italian politicians want to censor the artist’s poster for a sailing event, which reads ‘We’re all in the same boat’

In further news: artists rally behind detained photographer Shahidul Alam; crisis talks at London museums following decline in visitors 

In further news: former Venice Biennale director calls biennial model ‘stale, if not dead’; photographer Shahidul Alam charged over ‘provocative comments’

In further news: artists for Planned Parenthood; US court rules on Nazi-looted Cranachs; Munich’s Haus der Kunst cancels Joan Jonas show

In further news: Angela Gulbenkian sued over Kusama pumpkin; and Pussy Riot re-arrested immediately after release from Russian detention 

In further news: UK High Court upholds Giotto export ban; Cleveland Museum of Art launches conservation centre for Chinese paintings

In further news: Creative Scotland chief executive quits; Pussy Riot jailed for World Cup protest; Colosseum rejects Beyoncé 

In further news: Brexit voters avoid arts; New York libraries’s culture pass unlocks museums; Grayson Perry-backed artists’s housing wins approval 

In further news: Glasgow School of Art to be rebuilt; Philadelphia Museum of Art gets a Frank Gehry-designed restaurant

In further news: the Met post record attendance despite new admission charge; New Museum Triennial 2021 curators announced

In further news: German government buys Giambologna at the eleventh hour; LACMA’s new expansion delayed

In further news: Macron reconsiders artist residencies; British Council accused of censorship; V&A to host largest Christian Dior exhibition in UK

In further news: Salvator Mundi on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi in September; German government approves 9% culture budget boost

In other news: gallerist arrested in Purdue Pharma demo; artists protest Trump’s child separation policy with ‘We make kids disappear’ billboard

In further news: po-mo architecture in the UK gets heritage status; Kassel to buy Olu Oguibe’s monument to refugees

In further news: the future of Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building uncertain; Ai Weiwei returns to eBay

In further news: Ireland’s National Museum collects abortion referendum protest art; North Korean propaganda artists criticize Trump-Kim meeting

In further news: study finds US film critics overwhelmingly white and male; woman sues father over Basquiat

In further news: Buyer of Salvator Mundi made head of Saudi Culture Ministry; Sotheby’s files lawsuit against Greek government