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

With young people twice as likely to visit art institutions to de-stress, charity extends National Art Pass to include Britons up to 30

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

English arts education is declining in both quality and quantity, new statistics show

New research has revealed the ingredient responsible for the richness of the Old Master’s paintings

The US Second Lady has agreed to teach art at a Christian school in Virginia that bans LGBTQ+ students, teachers and parents

The artist is building a ‘controlled environment for the contemplation of light’ inside a dormant volcano in Arizona

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

Flecks of rare blue pigment found in a skeleton show women were also skilled manuscript painters 900 years ago

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

‘Behind the facade of success and strength lies a fragile and, at times, broken individual’, her lawyers write

The Turkish artist’s brilliant, abstract canvases were the subject of a major Tate Modern retrospective in 2017

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

Jan van Huysum’s ‘Vase of Flowers’ was stolen in 1943 by retreating German troops

Lina Iris Viktor has reportedly reached a settlement in her lawsuit against Lamar and SZA over visuals for their song ‘All the Stars’

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

The female Renaissance painter’s ‘Self-Portrait’ has been listed among ‘improperly acquired’ objects during World War II

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

The artist’s installation ‘Ice Watch’ places giant melting blocks outside the Tate Modern and Bloomberg headquarters