New York's New Museum has announced plans for a sculpture by Tschabalala Self at the "kissing point" of its two buildings.

Self's sculpture, called Art Lovers, shows a couple embracing on the outside of the building where the existing museum meets its new extension on the third floor.

It is the latest in a series of large-scale sculptures built for the museum's facade following on from work by artists including Chris Burden, Isa Genzken and Ugo Rondinone.

The seven-story expansion of the building on the Bowery is due to open next year.

The doors are open tonight for a chance to see a stunning private art collection sparked by personal tragedy.

The Hort Family collection open house sees Susan and Michael Hort's New York home on Hudson Street transformed briefly into a public gallery.

Visitors' donations go to the Rema Hort Mann mission, named after their daughter who died in 1995 aged just 30, which supports cancer patients and emerging artists.

The family collection, including artists such as Cindy Sherman and Marlene Dumas, is so vast they have around 7,000 square feet of storage in New York and New Jersey plus a private museum planned for the Art Omi Pavilions in Chatham, New York.

Has the director of London's National Gallery, Gabriele Finaldi, achieved the impossible and united the country's critics in agreement?

The gallery, which had 4.7million visitors last year, recently finished a two-year revamp of its Sainsbury Wing complete with a rehang of more than 1,000 paintings including work by Titian, Rembrandt and Monet.

Writing in the Telegraph, Alastair Sooke gave the project five stars and said the rehang left him "exhilarated".

The Guardian's Jonathan Jones also awarded it five stars, proclaiming the gallery was like a "magic labyrinth whose every picture is a door to Wonderland", while in The Times of London Waldemar Januszczak said the "abundant" masterpieces ensured that "On a picture-by-picture basis it remains a glorious journey".

Although he had misgivings about the curators’ “cavalier” approach to chronology and took a dim view of Richard Long’s Mud Sun at the top of a grand staircase.

CC Land: The Wonder of Art opens at the National Gallery on Saturday.

Diagrams are deconstructed in architect Rem Koolhaas' new show at the Fondazione Prada's Venice venue.

The show, which opens on Saturday and runs to November 24, includes 300 exhibits from 12th century documents to digital images in an attempt to examine how data has been used and presented throughout human history.

It is part of the Venice Architecture Biennale which has its pre-opening today and opens fully to the public on Saturday.

The Dutch architect's relationship with the fashion firm has seen him design its stores on Broadway in New York and Beverly Hills in Los Angeles.

The Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Christopher Bedford, has penned a "Letter to the Community" - just as his community got a lot smaller with a 7.5% cut to its workforce.

The letter said the museum had taken "the difficult step to eliminate 29 currently filled positions", blaming "tourism" to the city and "local traffic" not recovering from the pandemic.

Bedford said recent exhibitions of work by Ruth Asawa and Amy Sherald had been successful but still left the museum facing "some hard realities" including a $5 million deficit.

1 - Gagosian's West 21st Street gallery is home to 121 works by Takashi Murakami created in response to a series of 19th century prints by fellow Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige. The show, which runs to July 12, includes new work as well as some previously shown last year at the Brooklyn Museum.

2 - Michael Armitage's new show is the inaugural event at David Zwirner's new gallery on West 19th Street. The Kenyan-British artist has painted on Lubugo bark cloth - a traditional Ugandan material used in funeral rites.

3 - Robert Indiana: The American Dream opens tonight at the Pace Gallery on West 25th Street. The show, which runs to August 15, includes paintings and sculptures from the start of his career in the early 1960s up until his death in 2018.