Works by artists including Willem Cornelisz Duyster and Karl Bodmer are among 424 missing paintings featuring in a new campaign by a French museum asking for their return.

The vast majority of the wanted works were stolen when the Orleans Museum of Fine Arts, around 70 miles from Paris, was looted in 1940 during the Second World War.

The museum says the list is "as comprehensive as possible" in the hope it will "encourage their return".

An online wanted poster has also been created as part of what it describes as its "relentless search for missing works".

Four works have been returned in the last two years including a Louis Neillot landscape found for sale in an auction and a painting by Achille Etna Michallon returned by a German couple who unwittingly bought it only to realize it belonged to the museum.

Tate Modern staff have turned gardeners to grow their own crop of moss to re-create a living sculpture for the Ana Mendieta show which opens on Wednesday.

The New Yorker reported the crop of sphagnum moss would be used by the artist's niece, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, to build a piece made of wire mesh and plants called Mother of All Things.

That work, which will be assembled next to a tree outside the London building, will be joined by more than 120 other works including films, paintings, sculptures and installations in the show which runs to January 17.

Mendieta, who once compared her work to "Neolithic art", made pieces in nature including sand sculptures and used mud, flowers and blood to make life-size ephemeral works based on her own body.

The Cape Ann Museum near Boston has re-opened after a 20-month $9 million renovation with a show dedicated to Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko.

All three men painted in the Massachusetts coastal city of Gloucester which is home to the museum and 82 of their works went on show on June 30.

The renovation work has allowed the museum to move its storage off-site which has opened up more exhibition space and director Oliver Barker said planning is underway for shows on Stuart Davis and another on the "surprising amount" of painters who worked in both Venice and Cape Ann.

Barker told The Boston Globe the renovation work allowed the museum to retain its "intimacy", adding: "It’s no longer a ‘hidden’ gem. It is just the gem."

1 - Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has launched its first-ever artist-in-residence program. Five artists from Czechia lived and worked with six local artists including Hung Fai and Vvzela Kook with their work going on show in the city yesterday until August 2.

2 - The European Commission has officially recommended stopping the Venice Biennale's $2.28 million grant after it allowed Russia to open a pavilion this year. Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said the decision came after a "thorough assessment of the replies from the Biennale to justify the re-opening of Russia’s pavilion", adding that "culture in Europe - funded with taxpayers money - should promote and safeguard democratic values".

3 - Gambler turned art collector David Walsh's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) has teamed up with a Thai real estate firm to open an outpost in Bangkok. He said the new museum, which will be built on the banks of the Chao Phraya River, will benefit from his experience setting up MONA which has had more than 5.2 million visitors since opening in Hobart in 2011.

4 - Ina Sarikhani Weston has been appointed chair of trustees at London's National Portrait Gallery. The co-founder and curator of the Sarikhani Collection of art from Iran, she will start in the role in October.