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The Rapa Nui people believe that repatriation would help close ‘the sad chapter’ of 19th-century looting

‘It’s ridiculous. It’s Picasso’: social media platform to review nudity policy after blocking Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ads

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

Poland’s feminist ‘Bison Ladies’ storm the Japanese artist’s Warsaw exhibition in solidarity with longtime model Kaori’s allegations of bullying

An art historian and leading Leonardo expert has cast doubt on the painting’s attribution

The dissident artist has posted a series of videos on Instagram documenting diggers demolishing his studio in the Songzhuang district

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

Cate Blanchett prepares her best Marina Abramović impression; fake rabbi in Renoir heist; and Ai Weiwei declares, ‘I am a cow’: all the latest in art world silliness

It’s not clear who destroyed the project – part of the Liverpool Biennial – which names those who have died trying to seek refuge in Europe

The longtime director of MoMA PS1 heads to the West Coast

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

‘I am for free Pussy Riot,’ the performance artist says, in solidarity with jailed members of the Russian punk-feminist collective

According to authorities, a significant portion of the parliamentary art collection has either been mislaid or stolen

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

The new initiative will loan celebrated National Portrait Gallery artworks to towns across the UK that they are most closely associated with

Statues of pioneering suffragettes will break New York’s male-dominated ‘bronze ceiling’

The fashion photographer has been accused on Twitter of ripping off another artist – with both represented by the same gallery

More than 20 artists and designers are calling for work to be removed after a reception linked to the arms industry was held in the museum

In further news: photojournalism has its #MeToo moment; Nan Goldin stages anti-opioid protest at Harvard; Man Booker longlist announced

Belgian museums are protesting the social media platform’s inability to distinguish the Flemish master’s Baroque nudes from pornography