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Louvre Abu Dhabi opens this weekend; 2019 Sharjah Biennial curators named; New York’s Performance Space 122 reopens

David Zwirner hires Jennifer Yum and Leo Xu to direct Hong Kong outpost; New York’s Eyebeam moves to Bushwick; 2017 Stirling Architecture Prize

Linda Nochlin (1931-2017); 5,000 sign open letter against sexual harassment in the art world

German cultural figures protest far-right Bundestag representative; Saskatoon's Remai Modern opens; Nato Thompson joins Philadelphia Contemporary

Stockholm’s Magasin III to open Israel space; Hayward name senior curators; Prada Foundation opens in Shanghai

Beatrix Ruf resigns as Stedelijk director over alleged conflicts of interest; Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to paint the Obamas

Alistair Hudson appointed director of Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth; Tate St Ives reopens; Kader Attia wins Joan Miró Prize

Beijing’s UCCA sold to investors; anti-Columbus Day tour descends on American Museum of Natural History; David Geffen's USD$150 million gift to LACMA

Contemporary Art Society and Frieze Tate Fund acquisitions at Frieze London; protests over MAM São Paulo performance

Lis Rhodes and Nottingham Contemporary awarded Freelands Prize; Susanne Pfeffer named director of MMK Frankfurt

Police end Volksbühne occupation in Berlin; Thomas Dane to open a space in Naples

Guggenheim pull pieces from Chinese art show after animal rights protests; Berlin’s Volksbühne occupied; vandalism at Skulptur Projekte Münster

Mexico City Gallery Weekend postponed following earthquake; Hauser & Wirth to open new gallery in Hong Kong

Documenta curatorial team respond to financial mismanagement report; Gwangju Biennale announces 2018 theme

Queer art exhibition in Brazil shut down; Micky Schubert closes; Pierre Bergé dies at 86

Opening date set for Louvre Abu Dhabi; London’s Carroll/Fletcher closes; Kate Millett dies at 82

Haegue Yang awarded 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize; poet John Ashbery dies at 90; Edinburgh’s Inverleith House saved

Miranda July curates interfaith charity shop; Trevor Paglen wants to launch world’s first space sculpture; Rashid Rana quits Lahore Biennale

Calls to release Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov; documenta 14 cancels Berardi piece; Village Voice ends print edition

Far-right politician attacks documenta work; US President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigns; Queens Museum backtracks over Israel