The director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art says he expects Ronald Lauder to stay "involved" when his Neue Galerie merges with the Met in 2028.

Max Hollein told the Financial Times he expected Lauder to "take a very keen interest in how these institutions run", adding "we expect him to be around."

Lauder, 82, opened the Neue Galerie in 2001 and filled it with his own collection including works by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt before announcing the merger with the Met earlier this year which will see it renamed the Met Neue.

Hollein also did not rule out getting more works from Lauder's vast collection, saying the Met was "here to help" if he decided to give away other works including Greek and Roman sculptures and a series of right feet which Lauder said he collected "because in the Jewish Kabbalah you always go with your right foot first.”

Lauder's brother Leonard was also a notable donor to the museum and a sale of his collection raised $527.5 million for his estate at Sotheby's in New York last year.

Giorgio Vasari’s 16th-century masterpiece The Last Supper is 11 seconds from safety according to a test carried out ahead of today's 60th anniversary of the Florence flood.

The painting was left submerged in water and mud when the city flooded on November 4, 1966, and the restoration work was only finished 10 years ago.

It included the picture being attached to a mechanism of counterweights and pulleys that lifts it above the level of any new flood - a move completed in 11 seconds according to yesterday's test.

The anniversary of the flood is being marked by a ceremony today to remember the 35 people who died when the River Arno burst its banks.

Self-taught photographer Katie Hitchcock-Smith has won this year's $20,000 Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize with a picture taken during an artist's residency in Morocco.

Her image of two local men in the town of Erfoud is going on show in an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery alongside entries by Marcie Docherty and James Clifford Kent among others.

Boston-born Hitchcock-Smith's portrait, which recalls the imagery of Western films and cigarette adverts, was declared the winner by a jury including photographer Mary McCartney and gallery curator Brandei Estes.

The exhibition opens tomorrow and runs until January 17.

1 - The first anniversary of the opening of the Studio Museum's new building in Harlem, New York, is being marked by a special Studio Sunday open day on November 15. Visitors will be able to join a staff-led tour of the show dedicated to the collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz as well as other activities including curator talks at the museum led by Thelma Golden.

2 - Christopher Le Brun has had an art gallery in his native Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, named after him. The gallery is part of the city's Museum and Art Gallery and includes a painting by Le Brun who was president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019.

3 - Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert has been appointed senior curator at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The move comes after seven years as the first ever curator of contemporary art at Indiana University’s Eskenazi Museum of Art in Bloomington.