F Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote "There are no second acts in American lives" - he never met Mary Boone.

The disgraced art dealer is on the comeback trail with a New York show revisiting her own heyday in the city in the 1980s.

Boone was credited with championing artists from Eric Fischl and Barbara Kruger to Jean-Michel Basquiat with many of them featuring in the new show at Levy Gorvy Dayan on East 64th Street.

She started her career representing Julian Schnabel and David Salle and by 1982 was dubbed "The New Queen of the Art Scene" by New York magazine.

Her fall from grace came in 2018 when she pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns and agreed to pay back millions of dollars before she was sentenced a year later to 30 months in prison. She was released from prison five years ago.

The show, Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties, opens on September 18 and runs to December 13 and also includes work by Guerilla Girls, Keith Haring, Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe as well as a Basquiat in the form of a punch bag with Boone's name painted on it.

Sotheby's annual pre-tax loss in 2024 according to accounts filed by its parent company and reported in today's Financial Times. It is more than double the amount lost by the Patrick Drahi-owned auction house in 2023.

Anyone who has travelled on London Underground's non-air conditioned Victoria Line in the height of summer will empathize with Anish Kapoor who just unveiled a subway station he designed in Naples inspired by Dante's Inferno.

The Monte Sant’Angelo station was formally opened today - 22 years after the Italian city invited him to design it as part of an ambitious regeneration project.

Its steel entrance is described as appearing "to offer a descent into the underworld as much as an entrance to a train-station to take you on your daily journey", though commuters may prefer the more relaxing sounding "smooth, tubular, rim-like and clean" entrance on the other side of the station.

The man himself said: "In the city of Mount Vesuvius and Dante’s mythical entrance to the Inferno, I found it important to try and deal with what it really means to go underground."

1 - South Korean artist Lee Bae's use of charcoal is to the fore in his new show opening tonight at the Esther Schipper gallery in Berlin. He lined all the walls and the floor of the building in white paper before painting on them and also installed one of his trademark works made up of hundreds of small pieces of polished charcoal. The show runs to October 18.

2 - A monumental four-meter-wide painting of a children's choir dominates Brazilian artist Dalton Paula's debut solo show at Lisson Gallery's West 24th Street building in New York. The show called Infancias Negras opens tonight and runs to Saturday October 18.

3 - German painter Katharina Grosse's new show, High Noon Lumen, opens tonight with many of the paintings confined to an uncharacteristically narrow range of just two colors - orange and green. The show, at the Max Hetzler gallery in Berlin, runs to Saturday November 1 and comes just months after she created a large-scale painting for the Messeplatz Project at Art Basel.

1 - Ralph Rugoff is leaving London's Hayward Gallery next Spring after two decades in charge. Rugoff, who also curated the 2019 Venice Biennale, brought ambitious group shows and artists from Kader Attia and Tracey Emin to Bridget Riley and Antony Gormley to the gallery in his time in charge.

2 - Jenny Holzer and Aliza Nisenbaum are among the latest artists to be commissioned for the Obama Presidential Center being built on the South Side of Chicago. Due to open next year, it will include a museum, a fruit and vegetable garden and a branch of the Chicago Public Library.

3 - Nigerian choreographer and performer Nora Chipaumire has been chosen for Tate Modern's second ever Infinities Commission. Her work will be seen in the London gallery's performance space called The Tanks from June 3 to August 26 next year.

4 - Oscar-winning director and artist Steve McQueen is beaming a version of his 34-hour film Occupied City onto the exterior of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum from tomorrow until January 25. Another version of the film, about the Dutch capital's occupation during World War II and a reflection of the effect of the pandemic on the city, including sound and a voice-over will play inside the museum.