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The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin bronze statues to Nigeria, the Dutch embassy in Abuja announced this week. It becomes the first European nation to do so after Germany. The majority of these 19th-century African sculptures, however, remain in France and the UK.

Drawing on his stint as a food delivery driver in Rio during Covid, Allan Weber riffs on life in the favela where he was born, lives and works. In a separate show, Puerto Rico’s Daniel Lind-Ramos speaks to colonialism and the climate crisis

Ahead of a career retrospective, Sue Williamson tells how the US pair are dragging her country ‘through the mud’

Open letter from some of the country’s most distinguished artists ‘strongly protests’ at the removal of Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino

Archaeologist believes his ‘find of the century’ – of Pharaoh Thutmose II – could be surpassed by ongoing excavation

The choreographer and director’s impassioned trilogy, a co-production between Nederlands Dance Theater and Complicité, reaches its hugely moving conclusion

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agenda

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

A new artwork would have been commissioned for each London borough under the proposals

As artists call for better access to the arts, Sally Wainwright, Steven Knight, Larry Achiampong and others speak out