Former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour faces difficult times with critics breaking cover after the Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision to scrap its John Galliano show.

Yesterday's decision to cancel a planned nine-month retrospective at the New York museum, which would have launched next May with its annual gala, came after critics denounced the fashion designer over a series of racist and anti-semitic comments made more than a decade ago.

Wintour, a Met trustee and co-chair of its Costume Institute, who has run the fundraising gala as a personal fiefdom for years, has come under fire for her part in what the New York Times' Bret Stephens described as a "self-inflicted fiasco".

He said Wintour's description of Galliano as "courageous" should "prompt the rest of the museum’s leadership to ask whether she hasn’t done damage enough already", concluding: "Perhaps there’s another fashionista the Met could have canceled."

And if Wintour hoped for support in her hometown, she would have been disappointed with Harriet Walker suggesting in the Times of London her word "might no longer be law" amid rumors a planned Galliano show at the V&A in the capital could be shelved.

Hundreds of members of the public have collaborated with Australian artist Tony Albert on his latest show.

The exhibition, which runs at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art until October 19, includes a series of pieces made from crude, often racist, objects from dolls to ashtrays that reference Aboriginal people and culture.

Albert's call for public donations to help him "smash stereotypes one souvenir at a time" saw more than 400 objects sent to the museum including wrapping paper and board games.

Albert, who has been collecting Aboriginalia since childhood, told the Sydney Morning Herald he did not want people to "feel guilty" about the objects, adding: "It’s about taking these objects and turning them into something that celebrates the world’s oldest living culture.”

The number of visitors to the 16,426 institutions in the United States that took part in the 2025 National Museum Survey.

Romanian urban art festival Artown NOW must be hoping to attract a young crowd - having made 10-year-old Matei Nitulescu a co-curator.

The schoolboy will lead guided tours of some of the exhibits in the city of Ploiesti, about 35 miles north of Bucharest, and is described as "passionate about culture" and an "ideal co-curator to outline the theme of freedom".

The event, now in its fifth year, runs between September 18 and October 4 and will include murals, sculptures and installations inspired by the theme "Grammar of Freedom".

Work by more than 400 artists from 40 countries, including Alessandro Rocchi, has been shown in previous years with around 15,000 visitors last year.

Stephan Jost has been hailed for his "decade of transformational leadership" after announcing he will stand down as director of the Art Gallery of Ontario on December 31.

Jost, a former director of the Honolulu Museum of Art in Hawaii, has helped raise $358 million during his time in Toronto and brought thousands of works to the gallery's collection including pieces by Peter Hujar, Piet Mondrian and Yayoi Kusama.

Despite that, his greatest impact might still be to come when the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery opens next year providing another 40,000 square feet of gallery space.

He said it was "important" a new director was in place for the opening of the gallery which will hold more than 400 works from its collection - many of which have never been on show before.

1 - The Design Doha biennial, run by artistic director Glenn Adamson, will return from November 5 this year to January 31. It will include the Design Doha Prize with four winners chosen by a jury headed by Iranian-French architect India Mahdavi and announced in the opening week.

2 - Wassily Kandinsky’s Das bunte Leben is expected to sell for around $30 million at Christie's in London on October 14. The painting was at the center of a restitution case and was formally returned to the heirs of Dutch Jewish collector Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann in 2023 after half a century hanging in Munich's Lenbachhaus.

3 - Collector and philanthropist Dominique de Menil is one of six women being honored with a mural in Houston. The mural, by Anat Ronen, will mark de Menil's work founding the museum that bears her name and boasts a collection featuring pieces by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Cy Twombly and Mark Rothko.

4 - Mark Feary has been named curator of the next Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art which runs from March 3 to June 4. He is currently artistic director of Melbourne’s Gertrude Contemporary gallery.

5 - Seoul is where it is at this week with Frieze and Kiaf opening to VIPs in the city today. Click here to see our six artists in the spotlight in the South Korean capital.