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The week connected new research into museum-held Mesoamerican objects with the return of Greek antiquities, the sale of a restituted Kandinsky, renewed litigation over a Cranach, and continued talks over the Parthenon sculptures.
Sally Rooney's books were repeatedly pulled from UK sales after her support for Palestine Action, widening the conflict from an author's politics into a dispute over protest rights, censorship, and publishing control.
Exhibitions, archives, and restorations challenged the marginalization of Black, Asian, Indigenous, female, and other overlooked artists while critics also reopened questions about appropriation and originality.
Major institutions announced new spaces, exhibitions, commissions, and citywide programming, while Qatar launched a large new quadrennial to establish another international platform for contemporary art.
A Palestinian collective and young artists in Gaza and the West Bank mounted simultaneous exhibitions, turning shared presentation into a practical response to movement restrictions and political division.
Museums paired operational commitments with public obligations, from securing the Van Gogh Museum's funding and repairing an accessibility system to testing AI glasses and facing scrutiny over sponsorship oversight.
Two authors faced scrutiny over whether artificial intelligence shaped their work; in one case, the controversy shifted into an admission of plagiarism.
Peter Nagy's death brought renewed attention to a career that connected New York's artist-run gallery scene with India's contemporary art world and carried an artist's experimental outlook into dealing.
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