With dozens of artists ruling themselves out of contention for the Venice Biennale's major prizes, Italy's culture minister Alessandro Giuli is convinced the big winner is Vladimir Putin.

He told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera: "There’s no doubt about it. Putin won at the Biennale."

Giuli, who has spoken out against the presence of the Russian pavilion, said he did not think the artists involved in it were "agents of Moscow", but added: "artists from the free world certainly have the right to express dissent against those who govern them.”

Politics has impacted this year's event more than ever with protests against the presence of the Russian and Israeli pavilions leading to strike action and the mass resignation of the international jury followed by more than 70 artists withdrawing from prize selection.

Away from the politics, the launch of a foundation in memory of the late Koyo Kouoh has been announced.

It will be based in Basel where Kouoh, who died shortly after being named artistic director of this year's biennale, lived and worked with the stated aim of supporting "African and Afro-descendant artists, curators, and cultural practitioners, wherever they are in the world".

The number of visitors to the Daniel Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum Berlin since it opened 25 years ago. He is returning to the museum next Tuesday to discuss his radical design which is the focus of a show running to November 1.

Artist Trevor Paglen has been appointed curator of the first Zero 10 digital art show at Art Basel's fair in Switzerland.

Work by 20 exhibitors will feature in the show at the event next month including Vera Molnar, Andreas Gursky and Hito Steyerl whose Green Screen features an LED wall made from recycled bottles and plants.

It is the first time the Zero 10 show has come to Europe after earlier editions at Art Basel's Miami Beach and Hong Kong fairs last year.

Paglen said the show would be an "intergenerational conversation about what it means to be alive in the digital era, led by artists who were thinking seriously about these questions long before the rest of the world caught up."

It has only been open a year but Rotterdam's Fenix Museum is already expanding its gallery space.

The museum, which focuses on art inspired and influenced by migration, is opening a 7,000 sq ft space for large-scale temporary exhibitions.

Its first show opens on November 19 and is dedicated to the Slavs and Tatars art collective whose work focuses on former communist countries stretching from the edge of Europe to China.

The expansion comes after more than half a million people visited the museum in its first year.

Zineb Sedira has built a vintage cinema and a 1960s Paris-style cafe for her show in the Duveen Galleries at London's Tate Britain.

Her work, When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks…, is inspired by African cinema in the 1960s and 70s particularly that of post-independence Algeria.

The cinema will screen her own film, made for the show, while the cafe includes a restored example of a Scopitone video jukebox that was popular with African migrant workers in France.

Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson said the show, which opens tomorrow and runs to January 17, would take visitors "on a journey through a radical turning point in the history of the Global South" and reveal the power of cinema as "a tool of resistance, memory, and political imagination".

1 - Enjoying the arts is as good for your health as exercise, according to a new study by University College London. The research found people engaging in arts and cultural activities appeared to age more slowly compared to those who did not - in the same way people who exercised at least once a week compared to those who did not.

2 - A recently rediscovered painting stolen by the Nazis from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has been returned to his heirs. Art detective Arthur Brand, who publicized the case, said Portrait of a Young Girl by Toon Kelder had been returned by the family of a Dutch Nazi collaborator who had owned it since the Second World War. Goudstikker's entire collection was stolen by senior Nazi Hermann Goering when he fled to England in 1940.

3 - Works by artists including Derrick Adams and Katherina Olschbaur are being auctioned to raise money for New York's Queens Museum. Funds from the auction, held next Monday in partnership with Sotheby's, will help pay for its planned 15,000-square-foot Suna Children's Museum scheduled to open in 2028.

4 - The search has begun for a new director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington DC. Current director Susan Fisher Sterling will retire at the end of the year after almost four decades at the museum.

5 - Japanese artist and poet Gozo Yoshimasu is the inaugural winner of the Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize. The 87-year-old will stage a solo show at London's Serpentine North next year which will then travel to the FLAG Art Foundation in New York in 2028. The prize will share $1.35 million between five recipients over the next 10 years.