San Francisco's brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain has won a stay of execution.

The landmark sculpture was set to be taken apart and put into storage as part of a $32.5 million renovation of the city's Embarcadero Plaza.

But it will stay in place for at least a month while a legal bid to halt the city's plans works its way through the courts.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported it is safe until April 6 when a judge is expected to rule on an injunction to keep Canadian sculptor Armand Vaillancourt's huge 710-ton work in place.

The amount of footage Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu told the Guardian he reviewed ahead of the installation inspired by his film, Amores Perros, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Anicka Yi has joined Pace Gallery and will have her first solo show with them in New York next year.

The gallery announced the move and praised Yi's "highly inventive" and "rigorous research-based" work.

It also said it will take a previously unseen painting by her to Art Basel Hong Kong this month while her first large-scale outdoor work will be unveiled at New York Storm King Art Center on May 17.

Samanthe Rubell, President of Pace Gallery, said Yi was "one of the most innovative artists of our time".

A life-sized fibreglass sculpture of a Maori security guard will welcome visitors to a new show at London's V&A museum dedicated to contemporary art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

Michael Parekowhai's work is one of more than 70 going on show in May with the museum saying it "offers a potent reflection on the stereotypes faced by Maori men even today".

More than 40 artists from 25 countries are exhibiting in the show which is being run in partnership with the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) in Brisbane including Naomi Hobson, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Montien Boonma.

The museum's Director of Exhibitions Daniel Slater said it would allow UK audiences a first chance to see works he described as "at once deeply rooted in place and urgently resonant on a global stage".

1 - Sara Flores is set to make history as the first Indigenous artist ever to represent Peru at the Venice Biennale. Her solo show, From Other Worlds, includes mosquito-net-shaped sculptures, large-scale paintings and a video installation.

2 - A competition to design a permanent memorial to George Floyd at the place where he was killed in Minneapolis launched this week. It is open to students across the state of Minnesota and closes on May 9 with the best three going into an open global competition. Floyd’s death in 2020 after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck sparked the Black Lives Matter protests around the world.

3 - The proposed site of the US Pompidou Center in Jersey City will be used for affordable housing after mayor James Solomon confirmed the planned museum will not go ahead. A spokesperson for the center said the cancelation was "linked to the uncertainties that can arise in the development of long-term projects" but said it was "more determined than ever to share its collection with new audiences".

4 - One of J.M.W. Turner's earliest watercolors will go on show for the first time since 1799, according to the Times of London. Abergavenny Bridge, Monmouthshire: Clearing up after a Showery Day (1789) is set to be exhibited at Gainsborough House museum and art gallery in southern England from April 25.