Pussyriot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova continued her performance art show without an audience yesterday after the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) Geffen site closed to the public after rioting reached downtown Los Angeles.

Trouble flared after protests against immigration raids were met with the deployment of the National Guard by President Trump.

Posting on her Instagram, the Russian artist said: "‼️ MOCA Geffen is CLOSED due to the National Guard and ICE occupying Los Angeles. I stayed at my jail cell at MOCA to continue the performance, National Guard or not."

The performance of (Pussy Riot) POLICE STATE, inspired by her time spent in a Russian prison after taking part in protests against the authorities, runs to June 14 and transforms the gallery into a prison with Tolokonnikova in a cell lined with artworks sent to her by former and serving prisoners.

The Geffen Contemporary building, a former LAPD garage in the city's Little Tokyo district, stayed open on Saturday night to host a fundraising gala for the museum.

Around $3.1 million was raised at the event which featured a surprise guest, politician Nancy Pelosi, who made a speech paying tribute to architect Frank Gehry.

There will have been some uncomfortable conversations in the Paris art world this morning after reports the illegitimate daughter of Vladimir Putin is literally sharing gallery space with artists opposed to his regime.

Russian emigres and Ukrainian artists regularly show work at the L Galerie in the city's Belleville district which also happens to employ a student intern by the name of Elizaveta Krivonogikh, aka Elizaveta Rudnova.

The Times of London reported the 22-year-old "bears a striking resemblance to Putin" who is said to have had an affair with her mother, Svetlana Krivonogikh.

Gallery owner Dmitry Dolinsky told the newspaper he "can't confirm that she is Vladimir Putin's daughter", adding: "What was I supposed to tell her? Can I not offer you work because of who your mother is? We’re not recruiting the mothers."

A row has broken out over claims works by Frida Kahlo have gone missing from a Mexico City museum.

Hilda Trujillo Soto, a former director at the Frida Kahlo museum, wrote a blog alleging pages from the artist's diary and some paintings were missing with some said to have been sold to private collectors.

In response, the trust that oversees it queried why Soto had "never filed a formal complaint during their professional association with the trust".

Works by Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera, are given special protection under Mexican law which means they cannot be taken out of the country without a special export permit.

It is advantage Martin Creed after tennis legend John McEnroe signed up to play the artist's mother in his new autobiographical film.

Creed filmed the surreal scenes with McEnroe in Malibu, but the film itself is about growing up in Glasgow with pupils from his former school joining the cast alongside model Lily Cole and actors Layla Burns and Lisa Edelstein.

Creed, who won the UK's Turner Prize in 2001, is showing a rough cut of the film at the Glasgow Film Theatre tonight.

A painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is going on show in public for the first time in more than a century - having survived bayonets, bullets and condemnation by the Nazis.

The 1911 work, Dance in the Variety Show, was last seen in an exhibition in Berlin in 1923 and spent the war years hidden away on a farm after it was condemned as degenerate by the Nazi regime.

It was uncovered in 1945 by a group of French soldiers who destroyed its frame and shot a hole in the canvas which was ripped open with a bayonet.

It was bought for around $8 million by Basel's Im Obersteg Foundation last year and was restored at the Kunstmuseum Basel where it is now on display.

1 - Religious campaigners have called for the cancelation of a planned auction of work by Indian painter M.F. Husain in Mumbai on June 12. The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti has previously protested against a film about Husain whose work it describes as "vulgar, perverse, obscene".

2 - Tate Liverpool announced today it has won $16.2 million of funding from the UK government's Public Bodies Infrastructure Fund. That adds to the other public and private fundraising already done to pay for the multi-million dollar transformation of the gallery in the north of England which is set to reopen in 2027 - two years later than planned.

3 - The story of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who was appointed artist-in-residence at New York's Department of Sanitation in 1977, is told in a new documentary. Maintenance Artist had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend.