Queen Sofia of Spain gave the royal seal of approval to a new Pablo Picasso exhibition when she officially opened the show in the 13th-century cathedral in Burgos.

The show, which traces the influence of religious art and thought on his career, officially opens today in the UNESCO World Heritage site and runs to June 29.

Among the 44 works on show are two images of the crucifixion done more than 30 years apart and a 1961 sheet metal sculpture The Man with a Lamb.

The cathedral was one of the places Picasso and his family visited in 1934 in what would be his final trip to his native Spain.

His grandson Bernard Ruiz-Picasso said the exhibition traces his grandfather's "reflective gaze toward his own origins".

Mari Katayama has won the $63,000 inaugural Mori Art Award.

The Japanese artist, who had both her legs amputated aged nine, uses photography and hand-sewn fabric to make her body into a living sculpture.

She told the Japan Times: "I want to tell everyone who is still moving forward, even quietly and invisibly, that effort does bear fruit. To me, this Grand Prix is not only an award — it is the opportunity to carry that message further."

The prize was set up by the Mori Contemporary Art Foundation to "support mid-career artists set to become the next leading figures in contemporary art" and also includes the opportunity of an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.

Katayama was chosen as the winner by an international jury including the museum's director, Mami Kataoka, the former director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, Glenn Lowry, and Frances Morris who was formerly Director at London's Tate Modern.

The cost of the restoration plan for London's Barbican arts center which was approved today by local government. The brutalist landmark opened in 1982 and is built on what was one of the largest bomb sites left in the city after World War II.

Visitors to Tate Modern's Julio Le Parc show this summer will be led through a maze celebrating his 70-year career.

It will feature more than 60 works including light sculptures, paintings and interactive installations.

Among them is his 64 Reflective Blades 2017 which encourages viewers to move between a painting and a row of reflective stainless-steel strips making their distorted reflection part of the artwork.

The show, described by the London gallery as being "arranged in a winding, maze-like manner", has been organized in collaboration with the 97-year-old Argentinian artist who has been based in France since 1958.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a gift of 70 works from the estate of photographer Lillian Bassman.

They form the heart of a show, which runs to July 26, that includes pictures she took for fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar over 20 years from the 1940s to the 1960s as well as dark room experiments.

Museum director Max Hollein said Bassman transformed magazine photography into a "premier artistic project of experimentation and impact".

He added: "We are proud to continue to celebrate extraordinary fashion photography as a catalyst of profound innovation and expression."

The exhibition shows how Bassman, who died in 2012, returned to her vast archive in the 1990s and reprinted many of her negatives in an abstract style which found her new followers in the contemporary fashion world.

1 - More than 2,500 people have signed an open letter opposing the planned closure of Chicago's De Paul Art Museum. The museum, run by De Paul University, is set to close on June 30 as part of an attempt to save around $27 million from its budget.

2 - Harold Mendez and Gabriel Branco are among the artists whose work can be seen at the Arcomadrid art fair which opens tomorrow. More than 200 galleries from 30 countries are expected in the Spanish city for the 45th edition of the fair.

3 - An Egyptian tour guide was arrested last week after a video appeared on social media appearing to show him sketching a stick figure on the wall of a pyramid near Cairo. The Ministry of the Interior said the drawing had been cleaned up and "legal measures" taken against the man involved.

4 - A new photograph of singer Elton John and his family by Catherine Opie has been unveiled at London's National Portrait Gallery. The portrait was commissioned by the gallery ahead of its exhibition dedicated to the American photographer which opens on Thursday.

5 - Disgruntled Guggenheim staff will hold a rally in front of the New York museum tomorrow during the VIP reception for the opening of a new exhibition of works by sculptor Carol Bove. Staff, who voted for union recognition in 2021, are currently in negotiations over a new contract with the museum which is led by director Mariet Westermann.