The death of David Hockney aged 88 has robbed British art of one of its greatest talents.

The announcement of his death brought tributes from around the world including the places he called home - Bradford, London, Los Angeles and Normandy - and which he continued to paint until the end of his life.

Hockney, whose death comes one month short of his 89th birthday, was an outstanding draftsman but never stopped embracing new technology from Polaroid cameras and fax machines to iPads.

He made history in 2018, when his work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's in New York for $90 million, becoming the most expensive artwork by a living artist sold at auction.

Recent shows such as last year's major exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and the current Serpentine North gallery show in London drew huge crowds.

Planned shows across Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London and the Munch Museum in Oslo are guaranteed sell-out status.

The reported cost of renovating Pace Gallery's West 25th Street HQ in New York before its opening in 2019, according to Jerry Saltz in Vulture magazine. The art critic described the business led by Marc Glimcher, which recently announced job losses and the cutting of around 50 artists from its roster to save money, as "the Fyre Festival of mega-galleries".

From Charleston, South Carolina, a reminder if one were needed that it is not just commercial galleries feeling the pinch.

The city's International African American Museum (IAAM) has furloughed its entire staff due to what it calls "financial pressure".

It said the "temporary furlough" would take effect from July 1 to December 31 and be staggered to allow the museum to stay open and avoid job losses while it looks at how it changes its fundraising efforts.

A spokesperson told the city's Post and Courier newspaper it was "facing financial pressure like many museums and nonprofits”, adding: "We are navigating a shift in the political and funding environment that has made financial operations uniquely more challenging for our institution."

The museum, which has previously staged shows featuring work by Ming Smith and Lonnie Holley, has only been open three years.

The president of Germany's Bauhaus Foundation has revealed she has taken out insurance to defend it against legal challenges from the country's rising far-right politicians.

Barbara Steiner told Le Monde she took the precaution in 2023 as she was working on plans to celebrate the centenary of the art and design school's presence in the city of Dessau this year.

She said it was "the same as for business leaders, in case I have to defend myself in court" from the type of conservatism she felt was "becoming the dominant ideology".

The Bauhaus, whose staff included talent such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, moved to Berlin in 1932 and closed a year later under pressure from the Nazi regime.

Its legacy has since become a popular target for politicians from the Alternative for Germany party who demanded the centenary include "critical reflection" on what they described as its "excesses of modernity” and "deviant path of modernism".

1 - Art historian Steven Nelson has been appointed the first executive director of the Sam Gilliam Foundation having previously worked at Washington DC's National Gallery of Art. The foundation which was set up in 2023, a year after the artist's death aged 88, has launched an award in his name and collaborated on a show of his work with the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

2 - Photographs by the likes of Robert Frank and Nan Goldin will go on show when New York nonprofit Aperture moves to its new home in September. The building on the city's Upper West Side includes a gallery with its opening show, Aperture Loves New York, dedicated to photographers who helped define the image of the city.

3 - Two stone sculptures from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art have been returned to Cambodia after they were linked to convicted art smuggler Nancy Wiener and her mother Doris. A third sculpture from a private collection was also returned as part of an investigation led by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr.

4 - Russian protest performance art group Pussy Riot release their album, CYKA, today. They first hit the headlines in 2012 during a protest against Vladimir Putin at Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

5 - Zurich Art Weekend starts today with more than 150 artists taking part at more than 70 venues. Click here and here to see our pick of solo shows in the city.