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In further news: staff at LA MoCA take steps to unionize; Hetain Patel wins Film London Jarman Award

In further news: LA MoCA’s free admission starts in January 2020; Manchester Museum returns sacred Aboriginal artefacts

Activists dressed as Greek gods and goddesses drenched in oil

In further news: Baltimore Museum of Art to only acquire works by female artists in 2020; Nan Goldin leads die-in at V&A

Iraq pavilion at Venice closes in solidarity with protests; Gus Casely-Hayford to head up V&A East

Decision follows several arts institutions including the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre cutting ties to fossil fuel giants

In further news: Okwui Enwezor’s final exhibition; Marciano Art Foundation staffers push to unionize

In further news: major study into arts and mental health launched; artist pulls out of MoMA PS1 exhibition over alleged prison links

In further news: National Gallery facing Brexit shipping difficulties; beetle named in honour of Greta Thunberg

In further news: artists call for cultural boycott of Turkey; secret of the Bayeux Tapestry revealed

In an exclusive video interview, the author of Bad Feminist talks about black bodies, freedom and the gaze in Kara Walker’s ‘Christ’s Entry into Journalism’

In further news: ancient artefacts destroyed by jihadists resurrected; naked activists protest National Portrait Gallery’s links to BP

In further news: calls for removal of MoMA trustee; three arrested over gold toilet heist; researchers demand German museums open up colonial inventories

From the frieze archives: complete coverage ahead of New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s much-heralded reopening

In further news: Man dies in freak accident at Brooklyn Museum; Kandinsky paintings head to Riyadh for Putin visit

‘I saw how the different pop artists were working, and how they allowed new ideas to arise. So, I said to myself: Why don’t poets do that?’