Recent controversies have done nothing to damp down Cai Guo-Qiang's ambition with the artist revealing he is about to set fire to the Pompidou Center in Paris to coincide with Art Basel.

He told the Financial Times this month's show, called The Last Carnival, has been developed with AI and will see a coded message explode across the building's exterior that will only be explained when it re-opens in 2030 after a multi-million dollar refurbishment.

It comes after the New York-based artist had to apologize for staging a giant fireworks display in the Himalayan mountains sacred to the people of Tibet with campaigners describing it as an "act of cultural violence".

His apology did not stop outraged protestors picketing his new London show outside White Cube's Bermondsey gallery.

Cai, who was director of visual and special effects at the 2008 Summer Olympics and created work for its opening and closing ceremonies, ran into trouble last year - and again had to apologize - after people were injured by debris from another of his pyrotechnic spectacles in Los Angeles.

The Grove Foundation for the Arts aims to make a splash in New York by taking over a gallery for its first show featuring 148 intimate and rarely seen Andy Warhol Polaroids.

The charity, founded this year and based around the collection of Jeffrey Scott Grove, will show the works at The Hole Gallery in Tribeca.

They include screen prints and drawings as well as the instant exposure photographs.

The show, Andy Warhol The Dialectical Third: Torso, Sex Parts, Ladies and Gentlemen, Querelle, Self Portraits and other Polaroids, runs from October 24 to November 15.

Vincent van Gogh meet Barbie - New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has teamed up with Mattel to make a range of art-inspired toys.

The seven products inspired by the museum's collection include a Barbie doll wearing a gown patterned after the skies of Van Gogh's The Starry Night as well as a Magic 8 Ball featuring an abstract untitled work by Alma Woodsey Thomas.

Also in the range, which will be sold in the museum's stores in New York and Japan from November 11, is a version of the card game UNO featuring works by artists including Sonia Delaunay, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian and Liubov Popova.

MoMA's Chief Retail Officer Jesse Goldstine said the toys would act as an invitation to "a generation of new audiences to experience the Museum’s collection in ways that merge contemporary art with creative play and design innovation".

It is not the first time Barbie has teamed up with a cultural institution - London's Design Museum got around 144,480 visitors to its exhibition about the world famous doll making it the third most popular show in its history. It was so successful museum director Tim Marlow said colleagues dubbed him "the Barbie guy".

Driftwood sculptures are among the "weekend work" of a trail-blazing New York gallerist on show in a new exhibition in an English seaside gallery.

Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, southern England, is the first survey of the female abstract expressionist's work in Europe.

Parsons, who died in 1982, made her name representing the likes of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, but retreated to her Long Island studio at weekends to work on her own art.

The exhibition, which runs to January 18, also features watercolors and poetry inspired by the coastal landscape where she worked.

1 - Indian philanthropist Adar Poonawalla, whose company makes the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, has given London's Science Museum "an unprecedented eight-figure donation" to transform its Making the Modern World gallery. The businessman's art collection includes work by Pierre-August Renoir, Claude Monet, Marc Chagall and a Van Gogh reportedly hangs in the lounge of his home in Pune.

2 - The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has laid off nine staff and shut down its department responsible for education. The museum, which has recently held shows on Childe Hassam and Winslow Homer, said it was facing "a challenging financial period" forcing budget cuts of around 30%.

3 - Around 30 paintings by Bob Ross, who introduced millions of Americans to art with televised painting lessons, will be auctioned by Bonhams in November. The sale in Los Angeles next month will see all proceeds go to US public broadcasters affected by government cuts.

4 - The sports club that gave Brazilian soccer some of its greatest players from Zico to Junior is the inspiration behind a new show opening today in London. Sanctuary and the Shadow of its Walls at the Delfina Foundation is the first institutional solo exhibition in the UK by Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre and features work from his time spent at Clube de Regatas do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. It runs to November 23.