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In further news: Pro-refugee obelisk to stay in Kassel, Natural History Museum under fire over Saudi event

In further news: UK class gap impacting young people’s engagement with the arts; Uffizi goes digital; British Museum helps return Iraqi antiquities

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

In further news: Salvator Mundi on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi in September; German government approves 9% culture budget boost

In further news: po-mo architecture in the UK gets heritage status; Kassel to buy Olu Oguibe’s monument to refugees

In the age of Brexit, why Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to return the ‘stolen’ Parthenon marbles has never been more urgent 

BY Paul Cartledge |

Corbyn says that the sculptures ‘belong to Greece’, and supports return of all colonial loot in British museums

Mo Salah’s football boots enter the British Museum; Maggi Hambling’s whiffy advice for skipping gallery crowds: the latest in art world silliness

BY In the Name of Art |

In further news: Jack Whitten (1939-2018); Nan Goldin campaigns against Sackler Family’s OxyContin links; sexual misconduct in UK museums emerge

On coins and iconoclasm, from Maximinus Thrax to SUPERFLEX

Michael Jordan donates $5m to a new museum of African American culture; Chilean filmmakers call for the British Museum to return a stolen sculpture

Protestors temporarily close the British Museum and William Kentridge weighs in on the migrant crisis

Warhol's studio goes up for sale and Centre Pompidou announces a new space in Seoul: the latest art world news

Elisabeth Murdoch establishes a prize for female artists and Zaha Hadid passes away: the latest news from the art world

British Museum, London, UK

BY Sally O'Reilly |