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

The Mauritshuis in The Hague also joins the Amsterdam institution in ending funding from the oil and gas company

The Italian architect has offered to help rebuilding efforts, after the collapse of the Morandi bridge which killed 43

The mysterious project, which has signed up Marina Abramović and Massive Attack, will create a ‘city within a city’

A house that looks like a powerstation and a ‘grotesque’ hotel extension are in the running for architects’s least favourite prize

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

Following the militants’s occupation and desecration of the site, the reclaimed city is undergoing significant restoration works

In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation

Gallery owner says he doesn’t want to support the painter’s political views and that ‘this is essentially what you do if you give him a platform’

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

A survey of 1,745 artists reveals how job precarity, sexual abuse and gender disparities are rife in the city’s famous art scene

Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu and the Liverpool Biennial say the remains will be left as a reminder of ‘systematic violence’

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’

The whisteblower and former intelligence analyst will speak on algorithms’s impact on democracy, LGBTQ rights and Cambridge Analytica

The auction house insists that there is a broad scholarly consensus that the record-breaking artwork be attributed to Leonardo

Locals dispute the Israeli military’s claim that the building served as a headquarters for Hamas security forces

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

Criticism of the show at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest comes alongside a nationalist reshaping of the country’s cultural policy

The artist and activist, who spent two years in jail for performing a ‘punk prayer’, was stopped from travelling to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe