San Francisco's landmark Vaillancourt fountain could go into storage with a decision likely to be made today.

The 710-ton brutalist sculpture sits in the middle of the city's Embarcadero Plaza which is due for a $32.5 million redevelopment.

It has not worked in a year and was fenced off in June after being deemed unsafe and now the city's Recreation and Park Department has dubbed it a "design constraint".

In a letter to today's Arts Commission meeting, it argues "What was once a statement piece of urban renewal now severely limits our ability to create a safe, functional, and future-ready civic space."

But its 96-year-old Canadian creator, Armand Vaillancourt, wants it to stay in place and be restored to its former glory.

The meeting will be told that could cost $29 million as opposed to a bill for $4.4 million to disassemble and store it.

If the committee chooses the cheaper option, it will be taken apart and moved to off-site storage for up to three years while its fate is decided.

Politeness costs nothing, rudeness costs $8. At least that is the case at Dusseldorf's Kunstpalast museum where tours of its collection with a grumpy guide have been a sell-out success.

The 70-minute walk-through is billed as a "highly unpleasant" tour of the collection which includes work by Rubens, Lovis Corinth and Konrad Lueg.

The guide is the creation of local artist Carl Brandi and his approach, which includes telling off tourists and mocking visitors for their ignorance of art history, has gone down so well it is now booked up until next year.

Felix Kramer, the museum's director, said the idea was perfect for "an industry that often takes itself very seriously".

He said: "We are deliberately focusing on a change of perspective and, with humor and a touch of self-irony, addressing all those who don't identify with high-culture clichés but are still curious about art."

The amount raised by LACMA's Annual Art and Film Gala - a new record for the Los Angeles event which was co-chaired by museum trustee Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Florida philanthropists Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez have given 36 works to the Tate.

The works, by African and diaspora artists including El Anatsui and Bruce Onobrakpeya, are part of a wider gift which has already seen them present the London museum with a vast Joan Mitchell triptych.

They include a painting by Gavin Jantjes, who was at the forefront of anti-apartheid cultural activism in South Africa, and work by contemporary painters who join Tate’s collection for the first time including Cheri Samba and Joy Labinjo.

The couple, who made their fortune in real estate, are also funding a curatorial post in African art to the tune of several million dollars.

They have previously given or pledged more than $215 million to Miami’s largest public art museum, which was renamed the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2013, and founded a not-for-profit contemporary art space in the city.

The $1.2 billion Grand Egypt Museum (GEM) opened on Saturday with a dramatic drone display and fireworks and it obviously impressed one of the guests of honor - Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof.

Less than 24 hours after his attendance at the event near Cairo, he told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi he would return a "stolen stone head" depicting a high-ranking official from the dynasty of Pharaoh Thutmose III around 3,500 years ago.

The sculpture, which will be handed over at the end of this year, was seized from the TEFAF exhibition in Maastricht three years ago after police got an anonymous tip-off and was ruled to have been "obtained through plunder and exported unlawfully".

The museum, run by CEO Ahmed Ghoneim, opened after two decades of construction work and is home to a collection of more than 50,000 items.

1 - A show dedicated to the career of Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei has opened at Al Riwaq in Doha, Qatar, after its initial run at M+ in Hong Kong. Pei made his name designing the distinctive glass pyramid entrance for the Louvre in Paris and came out of retirement to design Doha's Museum of Islamic Art.

2 - East London gallery Project Native Informant, which has shown work by Anna Jung Seo and Sean Steadman among others, is closing its doors after 12 years. The gallery in Bethnal Green said the "global economic, political and social environment" made business "extremely volatile and unsustainable".

3 - Nicaraguan artist Patricia Belli has won the 2025 Velázquez Prize for Visual Arts. The $115,000 prize, run by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, was described as recognition of "the impact of her work in the Latin American context, specifically in Central America, and her commitment to education in a fragile environment."

4 - Chicago's Du Sable Museum is facing a lawsuit from a company providing security and janitorial services over unpaid bills. The museum, founded in 1961 by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, said it had responded to the allegations in the legal complaint but would not comment on "pending litigation".