The choice of Lubaina Himid to represent the United Kingdom at this year's Venice Biennale is 40 years overdue - according to the artist herself.

The 71-year-old told the Guardian newspaper she did not hesitate to accept the invitation from the British Council which runs the pavilion, but added: "I was ready to do it when I was 30. It’s just that the British Council weren’t ready for me.”

The first black woman to win the UK's Turner Prize for contemporary art, Himid also sounded a warning to any new supporters who previously ignored her saying she keeps a “little black book” of “big name” curators who snubbed her only to celebrate her recent successes.

This year's winners will be chosen by the ticket-buying public after the international jury resigned last week in an argument about whether Israel and Russia's pavilions would be in contention for the Golden Lion award.

One nation that will not win is Iran which abruptly announced yesterday it was pulling out of the event.

The amount raised by this year's Met Gala, according to museum director Max Hollein. That is up on the $31 million raised last year by the New York event which helps fund the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

American businesswoman and art collector Doris Fisher has died in San Francisco aged 94.

Fisher, who with her late husband Don grew clothing firm The Gap from one store in the Californian city to a global concern, was a major supporter of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

The couple built up a huge art collection and in 2009 they pledged more than 1,100 works to the museum.

It recently opened a new show of 250 works from the collection including pieces by Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer and Claes Oldenburg.

The Musee d'Orsay in Paris today opened a new permanent exhibition of suspected Nazi loot.

A dozen paintings, including work by Edgar Degas and another attributed to Paul Cezanne, and a sculpture are the first exhibits in the gallery called To Whom Do These Works Belong?

The museum has set up a team of investigators who will spend the next three years trying to answer that question and hopes the permanent show will encourage claimants to come forward.

It has returned 15 stolen works in the last 30 years but still holds 225 artworks that may have been looted by the Nazis and hopes the publicity around the new exhibition may help fill in some of the historical gaps preventing their restitution.

A spokesperson for the museum said it hoped the gallery would be a "space for memory, transparency, and active research".

The opening comes shortly after the announcement the Zurich-based SKKG Foundation has returned a Swiss landscape by Ferdinand Hodler to the heirs of Jewish collector Martha Nathan.

It said the work would be restituted after an independent commission concluded she had been forced to sell it by the Nazi regime.

A stained glass window designed by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones has been restored and returned to its rightful place in Salisbury Cathedral after a two-year conservation project.

Known as the 'Angels window', it was made in 1879 by Morris & Co but was suffering from more than 150 years of water damage and paint deterioration.

The restoration team was able to use original chalk designs made by Burne-Jones to guide their work and stay true to the Pre-Raphaelite artist's vision.

The 21-foot-high window will be re-dedicated in a special service at the English cathedral on Thursday.

1 - A monumental portrait of the late curator Koyo Kouoh by Derrick Adams has been unveiled in Venice. The work, which will be on show to September 24, is a tribute to Kouoh who died while still finalising her plans as director of this year's biennale in the city.

2 - An unrealized work by Christo and Jeanne-Claude goes on show at Gagosian's London gallery later this month. Air Package on a Ceiling was originally intended for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, in 1968 but was never made due to "technical constraints". The work, measuring around 52-feet by 32-feet, will hang from the gallery ceiling between May 21 and August 21.

3 - The recently renovated Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa, Texas, is looking for a new director. It reopened in December after a $20 million renovation project which added 8,000 square feet of gallery space and new offices.

4 - Billionaire businessman and art collector Ken Griffin has bought a second surviving copy of the US constitution and will put it on show this year. He previously paid $43.2 million in 2021 for another first printing of the document and the New York Times reports his second copy will be displayed at the South Street Seaport Museum in Manhattan from May 27.