Berlin's Georg Kolbe Museum has reportedly offered the unconditional return of his Dancers Fountain sculpture to the heirs of its persecuted Jewish owner.

The limestone artwork, which has stood in the museum's garden for decades, was commissioned by businessman Heinrich Stahl for his home in the German capital but he was forced to sell the house and art collection in 1941 - a year before his death in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt.

A spokeswoman for the museum, which acquired the fountain in 1978, said "discussions" were "currently underway with several parties".

She told HENI News: "Given the persecution suffered by the Stahl family and the fact that the fountain is indisputably cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution, reaching such a solution is of paramount importance to the museum."

The price paid yesterday for the 5.25-inch-high sketch of a foot by Michelangelo at Christie's in New York. The drawing, a study done for his Sistine Chapel frescoes in Rome, was only discovered after its owner sent an unsolicited picture of it to the auction house's online estimate portal.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will open its $720 million David Geffen Galleries on April 19.

Members will get priority access to the building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, for the first two weeks before it opens to a wider audience.

It is almost a decade after the music and film business billionaire announced he was donating $150 million towards the construction of the building on Wilshire Boulevard.

Forty-five curators have been working on the inaugural installation in the 900-foot-long exhibition space which can hold up to 3,000 objects at one time.

The museum said its first show "will use the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea as its organizing framework, emphasizing the cultural exchange, migration, and commerce prevalent throughout the history of art".

Among the works on show will be Henri Matisse’s La Gerbe, Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud and Vincent van Gogh’s Tarascon Stagecoach as well as commissions by Todd Gray, Lauren Halsey and Do Ho Suh.

See the show, buy the t-shirt. The Louvre has released a new fashion line inspired by the late British photographer Martin Parr.

Its collaboration with clothing label Uniqlo features photographs taken by Parr in the Paris museum and comes as a show dedicated to his work pulls in the crowds in the nearby Jeu de Paume.

The exhibition, which runs to May 24, features around 180 works taken over half-a-century by Parr who died in December last year aged 73.

The Louvre Uniqlo collaboration will be available from March 2.

Matthew Bogdanos, who has driven the New York District Attorney's Office campaign against antiquities traffickers, has won the $100,000 2026 Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History.

If the ballet dancer-turned-boxer and former US marine, who led the 2003 investigation into the looting of Baghdad's Iraq Museum which recovered more than 9,000 objects, was not already enough of a hero he cemented his reputation by refusing the prize money.

Instead, it will be divided between non-profit groups of his choice.

Bogdanos has form in this regard. He handed over all the royalties from his book about his time in Iraq, Thieves of Baghdad, to the museum.

His legal work at the DA's office is said to have led to the recovery of more than 6,100 antiquities valued at more than $480 million.

1 - Vincent Frimpong and Gideon Okoro are among 11 longlisted artists for the new Myma Art Prize championing emerging talent from Ghana and Nigeria. The prize includes $5,000 for the winner and a three-month residency at Nosona Studios in Benin City run by Nigerian artist Enotie Ogbebor. All shortlisted artists will take part in a group show at Yenwa Gallery in Lagos.

2 - A dead museum is being resurrected in Texas. The Mitte Foundation has taken over the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art which closed in 2024 and will reopen it as an arts center. It said the building, now called The Mitte: Arts and Cultural Center, will host "permanent and rotating art exhibits" as well as classes.

3 - Abstract artist and the first female president of the Royal Academy of Art, Rebecca Salter, has been awarded the freedom of the City of London. Her work, inspired by six years studying in Kyoto, Japan, can be seen in the collections of the Tate and the British Museum.