Some might say there are no winners in the row between the White House and the Smithsonian but try telling that to museums in Milwaukee and Baltimore.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is the beneficiary of President Trump's pressure on former National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet who resigned after being threatened with the sack - she is taking the top job at the museum in Wisconsin and will be in place later this month.

The Baltimore Museum of Art also benefits from the fallout from another loss to the Smithsonian - Amy Sherald is taking her retrospective there. Originally it was meant to run at the National Portrait Gallery but will instead open 40 miles up the road on November 2.

The Smithsonian and the White House continue to trade blows - the latest is a letter from the institution's secretary Lonnie Bunch asserting its “authority over our programming and content” and telling the White House an internal team would review what information it would turn over.

That follows a government announcement it would review Smithsonian exhibitions and seek changes to programming it found objectionable.

Barbara Hepworth's fascination with color is the focus of a new show bringing together dozens of her sculptures and drawings.

The Courtauld Gallery exhibition in London will feature work from three decades including a series of sculptures created in the 1940s featuring vivid blues and yellows painted into the hollows and curves of her wood and stone carvings.

The show will open on June 12 next year and run to September 6 alongside a display of photographs taken in 1933 of the London studio shared by Hepworth and her then-partner and later husband Ben Nicholson.

They are among shows announced today by the gallery including an exhibition dedicated to the seascapes of French Post-Impressionist Georges Seurat and the first solo-show in Europe of New York painter Salman Toor.

Pop artist Rosalyn Drexler has died aged 98.

Her death on Wednesday was announced by New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery which represents her.

In a tribute posted online, the gallery said she had continued to paint prolifically throughout the last years of her life.

Drexler, who wrestled under the name Rosa Carlo the Mexican Spitfire before picking up a paintbrush, is known for her images of Hollywood stars and preoccupation with violence and gender issues.

Her work found new admirers towards the end of her life with a major retrospective at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 2016.

She was also a published playwright and novelist and among her books was the novelization of Sylvester Stallone's Oscar-winning boxing saga Rocky.

1 - A stolen painting looted by the Nazis more than 80 years ago has been found in Argentina. Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi was handed over by a lawyer representing Patricia Kadgien whose father was a Nazi official. It was stolen along with hundreds of other works from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker.

2 - New research suggests the bronze winged lion which sits on top of a column in St Mark’s Square in Venice may at least in part come from China. University of Padua scientists found the copper used to cast the sculpture was mined in China’s Yangtze River basin prompting speculation it was brought to the city by the father and uncle of merchant and explorer Marco Polo.

3 - Benedicte Savoy has been appointed as the next "Chaire du Louvre" by the Paris museum. The art historian is known for her support for the repatriation of African art and artifacts and will start the role - described as "an opportunity for a great thinker of our time to take a fresh look at the museum, its history and its collections" - next year.