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World news digest: December 2013
Austria: The director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Tobias Natter, has resigned in protest after the museum’s managing director, Peter Weinhäupl, was appointed chairman of the new Gustav Klimt Foundation. The foundation is linked to the estate of Gustav Ucicky, a Nazi propaganda film-maker. France: After numerous delays, the reopening of the Picasso Museum …
Issue of repatriation back on the agenda
Several institutions return remains, but British Museum rejects claim. Gareth Harris reports
Surgeons’ Hall Museum and Chatham Dockyard receive HLF grants
Compton Verney gets support for £2.5m to restore Capability Brown park
Non-core services at increasing risk of council cuts, report warns
Local government spending in England set to fall by 30% between 2008 and 2015
The Tetley contemporary art gallery opens in Leeds
Gallery housed in the headquarters of former Tetley brewery