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Plans for the first lunar tourists for SpaceX’s 2023 mission include a crew of fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa’s favourite artists

Fernando Alvarez was arrested in June for leaving a 300-kilogramme steel artwork outside Purdue’s headquarters

Pyotr Verzilov, who stormed the World Cup final in an anti-Putin protest, is currently in intensive care

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

Following a devastating fire, iconic building to be rebuilt ‘as Mackintosh designed it, to the millimetre’ according to chairwoman

A PR agency darkened white students’s skin and digitally inserted black students into a class trip photo

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

Pyotr Verzilov is in a critical condition in a Moscow hospital after losing sight, speech and mobility

A new survey of higher education degrees in the US says that fine art is the least valuable subject to specialize in

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

‘Invaders’ daubed on list of migrants who have died seeking refuge in Europe, at Liverpool Biennial

An exhibition featuring the noise musician was cancelled after a backlash around his links to white supremacists

The latest art world silliness: Deborah de Robertis charged with ‘sexual exhibitionism’; Beckham’s painting debut; was the Mona Lisa sick?

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

The Vatican Museums were due to host an exhibition of the Pop artist’s religious works, including his ‘Last Supper’ series

Protests erupt after the blaze engulfed the 200-year-old museum and its collection of 20 million artefacts

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

The exhibition of Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana fits into museums’s interest in revisiting overlooked female artists

The blaze is thought to have destroyed millions of artefacts, from ancient art to the oldest human skeleton in the Americas

Mother and daughter topple playground art; and Mr Brexit fails to sell at Royal Academy: all the latest in art world madness