The former head of New York's Museum of Modern Art has warned America's private museums they could face the same pressure from the White House that has been aimed at publicly funded institutions such as the Smithsonian.

Glenn Lowry, who ran MoMA for 30 years until stepping down in 2025, told the Guardian they could be threatened with losing their valuable tax-exempt status unless they do more to reflect the government's stance against what it says has been "a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history".

He said: "Theoretically they can’t do it. But the mere threat acts as a form of pressure. Institutions might start to self-censor, and that is a very real risk."

His comments come as the New York Times reports the Smithsonian is facing an ultimatum from the White House to comply with a review of its content and plans or risk budget cuts.

President Trump has repeatedly criticized the museum, in one case effectively forcing the resignation of National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet by demanding she be sacked.

A recent White House letter to Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch pointedly reminded him its budget is largely derived from federal funding.

It told him: "The American people will have no patience for any museum that is diffident about America’s founding or otherwise uncomfortable conveying a positive view of American history."

The number of days left to decide the fate of a cow called Angus which is at the center of art collective MSCHF's latest project. The New York-based group is selling shares in the animal with buyers asked to either let it be sold to become four leather handbags and 1,200 burgers or vote to send it to an animal sanctuary.

Alvaro Barrington's new exhibition must be the first to transfer to Salzburg from London's Notting Hill Carnival.

On the Road features work which started out at his 2024 Tate Britain show before being expanded and installed on one of the sound trucks that help generate the street party atmosphere at the event attended by more than two million people every year.

They have now been reimagined as a series of wall hangings stitched onto burlap - the rough material used to make sacks for goods such as cocoa and coffee beans - which will go on show at the Thaddeus Ropac Villa Kast gallery in Salzburg, Austria, from January 24.

Barrington said the idea came from his "belief that we live fuller lives as human beings through trade, through the ability of trading stories, trading gifts, trading ideas."

1 - Ceramic sculptures and glazed tiles are among the works on show in Lubna Chowdhary's new show opening tonight at Mumbai's Jhaveri Contemporary in time for the city's gallery weekend. The show, called Double Consciousness, is described by the gallery as reflecting Chowdhary's own "hybrid identity" inspired by her East African birthplace, her upbringing in the UK and her South Asian heritage.

2 - Old photographs picked up online or from thrift stores are among the inspirations for painter Elisheva Biernoff's first solo New York show. Elsewhere, which opens tonight at David Zwirner on 69th Street, includes several paintings on paper-thin plywood recreating every detail of the original anonymous images.

3 - Mathilde Albouy has used lacquered wood sculptures, filled with green wax, to create her new solo show for Galerie Derouillon in Paris which its likens to "stepping into a gothic heroine's bedroom". The show opens tonight and runs to February 14.

4 - Three Screen Ray at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York presents Bruce Conner's installation based on his 1961 experimental film Cosmic Ray. It is a new take on the original film which was a mixture of found footage and original images spliced together to a soundtrack of the Ray Charles hit What'd I Say. The show runs to February 21.

1 - Work by artists including Jenny Saville and Richard Wilson will remain on show at London's Saatchi Gallery after it announced an extension to its current exhibition until April 26. The Long Now, curated by the gallery's former senior director Philippa Adams, is a celebration of its four decades in business since it was founded by collector Charles Saatchi in 1985.

2 - David Zwirner Gallery now represents American painter Amy Sillman and will hold an exhibition of her work in New York next year. Announcing the move, the firm described the Detroit-born artist, who was previously represented by the Gladstone Gallery, as "one of the most significant painters of her generation".

3 - Tashkent's Center for Contemporary Arts opens its doors for the first time on March 21. The gallery in Uzbekistan, led by founder Gayane Umerova and chief curator Sara Raza, opens with a show featuring site-specific work by Nari Ward and Muhannad Shono and a loan of a piece by Nadia Kaabi-Linke from the Guggenheim museum. Hikmah, which is the Uzbek word for wisdom, runs to June 30.