Collector Elie Khouri has announced plans for a private museum in Dubai for his contemporary art collection.

The building, designed by Sumayya Vally who became the youngest architect of London’s Serpentine Pavilion in 2021, will be situated in the coastal district of Jumeirah.

The Lebanon-born collector told The National newspaper his foundation would be "a home for contemporary art", adding: "Above all, I want to give something lasting back to Dubai and the wider UAE, a country that has given me so much, by helping build a cultural legacy for generations to come."

The museum will open in 2028 and is being led by Caroline Louca, former managing director of Christie's Middle East, who previously worked on the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

The amount of money being shared between nonprofit arts groups in Washington state from Allen Family Philanthropies - the foundation started by the late Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen whose art collection sold at Christie's in 2022 for $1.6 billion setting a record for a single-owner auction.

Authorities in Nuremberg have proposed closing the city gallery in an attempt to save around $770,000 a year.

The Nuremberg Kunsthalle, which had record visitor figures of 15,606 in 2024, would close from 2028 under the proposal if it is agreed later this month by the city council.

Campaigners against the closure say it has raised six-figure financial backing from supporters and increased its own revenue in an attempt to pay its way.

Its current exhibition, Andreas Oehlert’s Paper Moon, is scheduled to run to February 14 next year. Its permanent collection has been held in the city's Neues Museum since the 1990s and would not be affected by the closure.

Kay WalkingStick, Beatriz Cortez and Elisabeth Kley are among the recipients of this years Anonymous Was A Woman awards.

The New York-based foundation has given $50,000 to each of this year’s 15 winners.

Its founder Susan Unterberg said "direct, unrestricted support" is needed more than ever in a "fast-changing world".

She said: “The artists that we recognize this year are extraordinary. The range, ambition, and originality of their work is a reminder of just how vital artists are for our world."

More than 400 artists have shared more than $10 million since the awards were launched 30 years ago with previous winners including Ann Agee and Marian Zazeela.

An Australian sculpture park which is home to work by Ron Mueck among others says it will close unless "a sustainable funding solution" is found.

The McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery in Melbourne opened in 1971 and attracts around 60,000 visitors a year to see works including Gregor Kregar's 29-ft-tall Frankie the Chrome Gnome.

But its director Lisa Byrne said it is facing a shortfall of around $500,000 a year. An appeal posted on Instagram said its government funding lagged behind other galleries and it needed "all levels of government to coordinate a sustainable funding solution to ensure it can remain open for future generations".

Byrne told the Sydney Morning Herald she did not want to start charging for entry, saying she wanted to "remove barriers" to art for visitors.

1 - London's Gasworks gallery has announced its shows for next year with exhibitions of work by Thuy Tien Nguyen, Monia Ben Hamouda, Anna Engelhardt and Pedro Neves. Nguyen's show, which will run from January 14 to March 21, will feature sculptures moving through the building on a conveyor belt to a soundtrack made up of fragments of pop songs.

2 - A series of paintings inspired by Hao Liang's travels to Italy are going on show at Gagosian gallery in Rome. The works, which can be seen from December 10, show influences ranging from the poetry of Ovid to the films of Federico Fellini.

3 - Works by husband and wife Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe are among those going on show in an exhibition opening tomorrow at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul. The show of American Modernism, which runs to March 21, includes 16 O'Keeffe paintings and 117 works by Stieglitz from the collection she left to the Art Institute of Chicago after his death.

4 - A woodcut by Gustave Baumann bought for $5.99 in a Dallas thrift store sold for $17,500 at auction earlier this month. The signed and numbered work was sold by Heritage Auctions in the Texan city last Thursday.