South Korea's National Museum has reported visitor figures up by almost two thirds to 2.7 million, and merchandise sales up by 34%, statistics that will be the envy of every other museum in the world.

Unfortunately, it is not the kind of success that can be easily replicated with the Seoul museum admitting a large amount of its success is down to "the growing popularity" of Korean popular culture.

The institution credited BTS boyband singer RM as a major factor after he posted an Instagram story to his 47.7 million followers featuring a 16th century painting of some puppies by Yi Am from one of its exhibitions.

It is the latest example of the K-pop star's power in the art world - last month he made an appearance at Art Basel where he promoted Samsung's Art TVs.

The museum also benefited from the popularity of Netflix show KPop Demon Hunters and a TV dance show, World of Street Woman Fighter, both of which feature historic Korean costumes which saw it sell-out pens and badges with similar imagery.

Visitors to New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) can enjoy a very small slice of 1970s Tokyo - not much more than 10 square meters - from Thursday.

A new show, The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, recalls the building which consisted of 140 compact pods in Tokyo's Ginza district designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa.

Initially designed for businessmen who had missed the last train home, the prefabricated homes from home were converted over the years to become mini-libraries, tea rooms, galleries and DJ booths until the tower was demolished in 2022.

MoMA acquired one of the 14 surviving pods a year later and after being restored to its original condition it is going on show in the exhibition which will run for a year and will feature original plans and models of the tower and films and photographs of the lives of former patrons.

Tributes have been paid to stained glass artist Brian Clarke after his death aged 71.

From a humble background in the north of England, Clarke's talent was recognized early and he began his formal art training aged 13 and got his first commission for a stained glass window at 17.

Clarke’s vibrant, semi-abstract designs appealed to leading architects, resulting in large-scale collaborations with Norman Foster, IM Pei and Zaha Hadid among others. His work can be seen in galleries around the world and earlier this year a major piece was unveiled at Bahrain Airport.

He never forgot his roots and among the tributes was one from the Brian Clarke Church of England Academy - a school in his native Oldham named after him and which is home to one of his works.

The school said Clarke, who even designed its badge, "believed in young people, in creativity, and in the power of education to change lives".

The number of seconds visitors to Yayoi Kusama’s infinity mirror room at the Dallas Museum of Art get when they buy a timed ticket for the in-demand show.

Two works by the mother of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson painted while she was in a psychiatric hospital feature in a new museum show.

Charlotte Johnson Wahl first showed one of them, Ask, and Get, No Reassurance, at an exhibition held to mark the end of her eight-month stay in hospital in 1974

The show also includes work by Canadian artist William Kurelek, whose painting Nightmare is inspired by a recurring nightmare he had while an inpatient in the 1950s, and James Hadfield who was committed in 1800 after trying to assassinate King George III in a London theatre.

Between Sleeping and Waking: Hospital Dreams and Visions, is at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind in Beckenham, south London, from August 14.

1 - Jacques-Louis David's most famous work, The Death of Marat, will be one of the stars of a show dedicated to the French painter at the Louvre in Paris later this year. The painting, which shows the French revolutionary leader having been stabbed to death in his bath, is one of more than 100 works going on show from October 15 to January 26.

2 - A historic collection of art and artifacts spanning hundreds of years of Canadian history is expected to come to auction later this year - sparking protests from indigenous groups. It was built up over centuries by the Hudson's Bay Company which dominated the early Canadian fur trade, but has now dwindled to a department store chain which has been declared bankrupt leading to the sell-off.

3 - A major retrospective of work by Gerhard Richter will open at the Fondation Louis Vuitton later this year. The Paris show, which will run from October 17 to March 2, will include 270 works stretching from 1962 to 2024.