Philadelphia's art museum is embracing The Roots, Rocky and a subtle name change in a bid to win back audiences.

For 87 years the institution was the Philadelphia Museum of Art but not anymore. Its new title dumps the "of" and rearranges the remaining words to become Philadelphia Art Museum and if that is still too long just call it PhAM.

The rebrand headed by director Sasha Suda also includes a fashion makeover to make staff less "intimidating" and the Philadelphia Inquirer reports there are "discussions" with the city's hip-hop pioneers The Roots about becoming artists-in-residence.

The museum is also planning a show inspired by the statue of Sylvester Stallone's character Rocky - the film is set in Philadelphia - which could feature some of the actor's paintings.

It is all part of a plan to increase audiences which for the year to June 2025 was 672,484 - more than 100,000 down on the last full year before the Covid pandemic.

Head of Marketing Paul Dien told the newspaper the museum had to "come down the steps and meet people where they’re at".

The number of people with a Dutch Museumkaart giving free or discounted entry to 473 museums across the Netherlands. The Dutch Museum Association said card holders accounted for 31% of all museum visits last year.

Gagosian is banking on Ed Ruscha's cross-channel appeal with two shows running at the same time in its Paris and London galleries.

Ed Ruscha: Talking Doorways is at the rue de Castiglione gallery from October 22 to December 3, while the previously announced Says I, to Myself, Says I is at Davies Street in London between October 14 and December 19.

The Paris show is dominated by interior views of rooms, such as the 10-ft-long Says I to Myself Says I, which - just to add to the confusion - shares a name with the London exhibition.

More than six decades after opening and despite a huge influx of European emigres to Hollywood the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has finally got its first works by Egon Schiele.

The 27 works including landscapes and self-portraits by the Austrian painter, who died in 1918 aged 28, are at the heart of a donation from the family of art historian and gallerist Otto Kallir.

The gift of 130 works includes other Austrian artists such as Gustav Klimt and Richard Gerstl and 24 of the best will be exhibited from November 23.

Kallir fled Vienna in 1938 after the Nazi takeover of Austria and set up New York's Galarie St. Etienne in 1939 which was run by his family after his death in 1978, only closing five years ago.

1 - There is a double whammy of shows opening tonight at Levy Gorvy Dayan in London. La mort de l'amour contrasts the work of Leonor Fini with contemporary Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska while another show, Ménage à trois, presents both women's art alongside that of Fini's lover Stanislao Lepri. Both run to December 20.

2 - London's Maximillian William gallery is opening the first European exhibition of work by American painter Bob Thompson tonight. The US artist, who died in Rome in 1966 aged 28, counted Frank Bowling among his fans with the British painter saying his work generated "its own personal heat". It runs to December 13.

3 - London's Modern Art gallery is showing its second exhibition of work by Georgian painter Karlo Kacharava in its Bury Street space. Sometimes Ballerina, Sometimes Priest, in Reality, a Murderer features paintings and previously unseen drawings from his sketchbooks created between 1991 and 1992. The show runs to November 29.

4 - It has been a good couple of days for sculptor El Anatsui. His work features in the Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern which opened yesterday and London's Goodman Gallery and October Gallery are presenting two exhibitions by him. October's show opens tonight with the Goodman opening on Saturday.

1 - Canada's Vancouver Art Gallery and the Walker Art Center in the US city of Minneapolis have teamed up to buy Nan Goldin‘s Stendhal Syndrome. They will take turns to show the 2024 work made up of a slideshow of her photographs with an accompanying voiceover.

2 - Irish Culture Minister Patrick O'Donovan says politicians from countries including Australia, Wales, South Korea, Canada, Norway, Lithuania and Estonia have expressed interest in Ireland's scheme providing a basic income for artists. It currently pays $377 a week to 2,000 artists who are selected by a lottery.

3 - Art Basel Qatar says 87 galleries have signed up to take part in its inaugural edition next February in Doha. The fair, run by artistic director Wael Shawky, includes exhibitors from 31 countries and territories with 18% being newcomers to Art Basel.

4 - Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Gala Porras-Kim and Garrett Bradley are among the artists awarded this year's MacArthur "genius grants". They are awarded for "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and include an $800,000 prize paid in installments over five years.

5 - Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejao have been chosen to represent Brazil at next year's Venice Biennale. The exhibition runs from May 9 to November 22 with the Brazilian pavilion organized by Diane Lima.

6 - The director of the Kunstmuseum Basel, Elena Filipovic, has been nominated for Switzerland's Woman of the Year award. Votes can be cast online until October 27 with the winner announced later this year.