Taylor Swift's former next-door neighbor could spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to selling forgeries he claimed were original works by Pablo Picasso among others.

Carter Reese, a 77-year-old antiques collector and teacher from Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with a scheme where he offered for sale fakes attributed to some of the biggest names in the art world from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Joan Miro and Roy Lichtenstein.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said Reese is scheduled to be sentenced on September 12 and faces a maximum possible term of 40 years in prison.

The pensioner used fake affidavits and signatures to fool his customers. He lived next door to Swift when the singer was growing up in Wyomissing, PA, before she moved to Nashville to record her first album.

The number of birthdays you have to have celebrated before you are allowed in New York's Frick Collection. The recently revamped museum says admitting children under 10 "would necessitate erecting numerous and varied physical barriers to protect the works of art".

Rarely seen works by Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys and Theaster Gates are set to go on show in a new museum in Slovenia.

The Muzej Lah in Bled will house the collection of husband-and-wife entrepreneurs Igor and Mojca Lah built up over three decades.

Its website says the 55,000 sq ft building, designed by award-winning architect David Chipperfield's firm, will open in Summer 2026.

Olafur Eliasson is among the 37 artists taking part in this year's Helsinki Biennial which opens in three days.

The event, the third of its kind to be held in the Finnish capital, will see work go on show in the city's art museum but also in Esplanade Park and on Vallisaari Island.

The Biennial runs from June 8 to September 21.

There could be drama at the Kennedy Center next Wednesday when President Trump attends the opening of a musical against a backdrop of firings, hirings and falling ticket sales.

The President and First Lady are expected at the first night of Les Miserables at the Washington DC venue which according to The New York Times has seen ticket sales fall by around 50% since he made himself chairman and appointed his allies to its board.

Figures for April and May this year show sales halved compared to the same time last year. The newspaper also reported subscription revenue had been hit even harder, but the center said it had launched its subscription campaigns later than usual and expected yet-to-be-announced shows to attract high audiences.

The President appointed himself the center's chairman and replaced several long-standing board members with allies including Usha Vance, the wife of his Vice-President JD Vance.

1 - German artist Gregor Hildebrandt is in conversation with curator Francesca Gavin at the Perrotin Gallery tonight between 5pm and 6pm. The event is part of the forthcoming London Gallery Weekend and marks his participation in the group show, The System is Alive, at the Mayfair gallery.

2 - Joseph Conrad's classic seafaring novel Lord Jim is among the influences in Matthias Franz's new show at Grimm Gallery in London. The show, claim no easy victories, opens tonight and runs to July 19. It is his first solo show in the UK capital.

3 - A mattress is transformed into a large slice of moldy bread in sculptor Kathleen Ryan's new show at Gagosian in London's Davies Street. The show, called Roman Meal, opens tonight and runs to August 15 and includes another sculpture - Fender Bender - which transforms a car's chrome bumpers into a rotting slice of lemon.

4 - US painter Jenna Gribbon's new show, Rainbows in Shadows, opens tonight at Massimodecarlo gallery in Milan. The show, which runs to September 6, is her first solo show in the Italian city. Demand for her work has been rising since her auction debut in 2020 with her work Regarding Me Regarding You and Me setting a record of $478,800 when it sold at Christie's New York in November 2023.

5 - Work spanning 60 years by poet and artist Cecilia Vicuna is on show in Arch Future at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels. The show, which runs to August 2, includes some of what she calls her Lost Paintings - recreations of canvases made in the 1960s and 1970s that were lost after she went into exile following the military coup in her native Chile.

6 - Four photographs by Andreas Gursky are on show at Gagosian in Rue de Castiglione, Paris, from tonight until August 30. Gursky made history when his work Rhein II sold for $4.3 million at Christie's in New York in 2011 making it the most expensive photograph ever sold at that time.