George Lucas has just given his neighbors 65,000 reasons to welcome the opening of his Museum of Narrative Art later this year in Los Angeles.

He will give free annual passes to the $1 billion building for the 65,000 people who live in its 90037 ZIP Code in South LA.

Lucas is also hosting a community preview day on September 13 ahead of its opening to the public on the 22nd.

Museum chief executive Tracey Bates said: "We are inviting our South Los Angeles neighbors to make the museum part of their lives and take their own path of discovery through the art, programs and experiences that will help shape this new cultural hub for Los Angeles."

The building, which has 10,000 square feet of exhibition space and is set in 11 acres of parkland, will be home to more than 1,200 objects from the collection built up by the filmmaker and his wife Mellody Hobson Lucas including work by Norman Rockwell and Dorothea Lange.

A Karl Lagerfeld sketch of former German chancellor Angela Merkel sold for more than 50 times its high estimate only days after the politician's official portrait was unveiled.

The drawing was one of hundreds of lots offered by Sotheby's in its sale from the designer's estate which closed in Paris this week and sold for $26,342 - well above its high estimate of $457.

The sale also includes dozens of sketches for fashion projects and brought in $835,688 in total.

It comes after the politician's official portrait, painted by Jeremie Queyras, went on show at Berlin's Bode-Museum.

It was third time lucky for the Bayeux Tapestry which arrived at the British Museum in London at the dead of night after two practice runs.

A textile copy of the famous embroidery made the first two journeys from France to test the route and measure the potential for damage, but it was the real thing that arrived just before 3am this morning complete with a police guard.

Thousands of people have already bought $3.3 million worth of tickets for their chance to see the 11th-century depiction of the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

It was made in England but has not left France in almost 1,000 years.

It was greeted at the museum by a small crowd including its director, Nicholas Cullinan, chairman George Osborne, the French ambassador to the UK and exhibition curator Millie Horton-Insch who told the BBC she was moved to tears when she saw it unloaded from the lorry.

It took two "peanut butter plasterers" and 390kg of the stuff to create a temporary tribute to Wim Schippers a month after his death.

The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam has marked the death of the Dutch avant-garde artist just short of his 84th birthday by recreating his 25-square-meter Peanut Butter Floor which first went on show in 1962.

It opened yesterday and will stay in place until September 6. The museum will serve peanut butter sandwiches in its restaurant for the duration of the installation but warned anyone with a peanut allergy they may "experience symptoms in neighboring galleries" and to plan their visit accordingly.

1 - Laura Mueller has been appointed executive director of the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina. She starts next month having recently worked at the New Mexico Museum of Art and Vladem Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2 - Hollywood legends from Marilyn Monroe and Katharine Hepburn to John Ford and Steven Spielberg all feature in a show of Richard Avedon's photography opening later this year. More than 150 pictures are included in Richard Avedon: Hollywood at Gagosian's Beverly Hills gallery in Los Angeles from November 4.

3 - Lahore-born New York-based artist Salman Toor has his first solo European show in London in October. The exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery includes 19 paintings, all created since 2019, that visualize the imagined lives of young, queer South Asian men in New York.

4 - David Odo will take over as director at the Honolulu Museum of Art in Hawaii from September 1. Currently director at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, he replaces Halona Norton-Westbrook who left to lead the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.

5 - Mexico's Supreme Court is reviewing a 1984 law restricting the permanent export of Frida Kahlo's work from the country. Its decision will affect the future of the Gelman Collection which includes several works by the painter and caused huge controversy in the country when it was loaned to Spanish banking giant Santander.