The continuing chaos at the Venice Biennale is certainly not putting off visitors with opening-day numbers up on 2024.

The event has no artistic director following the death of Koyo Kouoh in the run-up to its launch, no jury after they resigned in protest at the inclusion of Israel and Russia and on Friday around a quarter of its national pavilions were shut by strike action.

That was followed on Saturday when the gates opened to the public by an announcement from around half the artists involved that "in solidarity with the resignation of the jury" they did not wish to be considered for this year's prizes which are being decided by a public vote.

But what it does have is a public - around 10,000 people visited on opening day which is 10% more than 2024.

The four days of previews also saw something similar with a 4% increase on the last event with 27,935 collectors, curators and journalists in attendance.

California's Wende Museum of the Cold War has announced plans for a $16 million research institute and interactive storage facility.

The museum, in Culver City near Los Angeles, said the new buildings will open in 2028 and allow access to more of its quarter-of-a-million strong collection of art and ephemera from the countries of the former communist eastern bloc.

Its founder Justin Jampol told the LA Times the "living archive" would house "the collections and makes them accessible for discovery”.

London's V&A Storehouse, which works on the same principle, has been a huge hit with the public since opening last year offering a view behind the scenes of its collection.

The fate of a painting stolen by the Nazis from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker is unclear after it was tracked down by art detective Arthur Brand to the home of a relative of a notorious wartime collaborator.

Brand said Portrait of a Young Girl by Toon Kelder is "still hanging in the house of the granddaughter of the notorious Nazi general Hendrik Seyffardt, head of the Dutch Waffen-SS".

Seyffardt was assassinated by the Dutch resistance in 1943 and Brand said he uncovered the painting's location after being approached by a family member.

Writing online, Brand said the "statute of limitations" meant the police could not confiscate the work but said the family was discussing whether it should be returned to Goudstikker's heirs.

The art dealer's entire collection was stolen by senior Nazi Hermann Goering when Goudstikker fled to England in 1940. Last year, another work from the collection came to light after being spotted in photographs of a home in Argentina taken for a property listing.

London is getting a Beatles museum on the site of the band's last live performance.

The band famously played a short set on the rooftop of their Apple Corps HQ at 3 Savile Row on January 30, 1969, before it was shut down by the police.

The museum, called The Beatles at 3 Savile Row, is backed by the surviving bandmembers and will open next year with exhibitions of unseen archive material and a recreation of the studio where they recorded their final album Let It Be.

The estates of George Harrison and John Lennon are also involved raising the prospect of Lennon's widow Yoko Ono having a say in the displays.

Paul McCartney told the Times of London he had recently revisited the building which he said held "so many special memories", adding: "The team have put together some really impressive plans and I’m excited for people to see it when it’s ready."

1 - Paul Klee's Angelus Novus is due to go on show today after it finally arrived at New York's Jewish Museum. The drawing, previously owned by German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, is belatedly being added to its Klee exhibition after its arrival from Jerusalem's Israel Museum was held up due to the war in the Middle East.

2 - A major Yayoi Kusama show opens in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum on September 11. Works from seven decades will be on show in the exhibition including paintings, sculptures and installations.

3 - Mariana Castillo Deball and Todd Gray are among nine artists whose work will be seen in the three new stations on the Los Angeles Metro's D Line extension. They were chosen from more than 1,200 applicants to the public art scheme for the extension which should open late next year.

4 - Art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who played a vital part in bringing some of America's greatest artists to Europe, has died aged 86. The Swiss dealer worked with the likes of Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol during his career.