Madrid's Prado Museum broke its visitor record again last year but Director Miguel Falomir is not celebrating.

Rather than pledging to go onwards and upwards from the 3.5 million visitors of 2025, he instead gave a rather downbeat interview to Spanish newspaper El Pais telling them: "The museum doesn't need a single additional visitor".

Instead he said "what it probably needs is a different kind of visitor" adding that his plans to expand its exhibition space and cap the size of tour groups would "enhance the quality of the visit."

The revamped Hall of Realms, designed by Norman Foster's architecture firm, is expected to be finished this year and to open in 2027.

Falomir added the museum would steer clear of blockbuster-style shows to pull in the crowds, saying "most visitors come to see the permanent collection" anyway.

An Oscar Wilde satire on high-society London has inspired the latest show at Sadie Coles' new Mayfair galleries.

Its Savile Row site is hosting Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime named after the writer's 1887 story about an aristocrat tormented by a fortune-teller's prediction he will murder someone.

The group show, including work by Celia Paul, Lisa Brice, Aaron Gilbert and Helen Marten, opens next Wednesday in the gallery which was originally built as an arts club around the time Wilde was writing.

A gallery spokesperson said the works would form "a contemporary response to Wilde’s fervent and monstrous Mayfair".

If it is true, as the saying goes, that bad news comes in three then who knows what will happen next to Gabrielle Goliath.

The South African artist hit the headlines this week when the country's culture minister axed her as their representative at this year's Venice Biennale and now it emerges she has also been dropped by her gallery.

She told the Daily Maverick the decision by the Goodman Gallery had left her "still grappling with this severing of our relationship at a time in which I am facing cancelation and censure".

The gallery told the newspaper the move was "part of a wider structural business review" with the decision being made last year before the current controversy.

A spokesperson added it was a response to "subdued market conditions at international fairs" and the "wider international art market contraction”.

1 - The desert skies of Marfa, Texas, are the inspiration for Katharina Grosse's new show which opens today in London. The works at Galerie Max Hetzler are a mixture of watercolors and acrylic and stem from the time she spent in the city which was put on the art world map when Donald Judd moved there.

2 - Four paintings, two from the 1960s and two from the 1980s, feature in a new show of the work of Vivian Springford in Amine Rech's Shanghai gallery. The show, which opens today and runs to March 7, is the gallery's third solo exhibition of the artist who died in 2003 aged 90.

3 - The William Eggleston show at David Zwirner's 19th Street gallery in New York is not just a tribute to the photographer but also to a redundant technology. The Last Dyes, which opens today, is made up of pictures produced by a process called dye-transfer that was pioneered by Kodak in the 1940s but which largely disappeared by the 1990s when the firm stopped making the materials used to do it.

4 - Lost paintings and a wrecked car all feature in Bertrand Lavier's show which opens today at Xavier Hufkens' Rivoli gallery in Brussels. It opens with the crushed body of a red Fiat 500 laid out on a platform followed by a series of abstract canvases found in flea markets and junk shops before being encased in blocks of resin.

1 - Edra Soto, Mercedes Dorame and Raheleh Filsoofi are among the artists to have been awarded a $50,000 USA Fellowship for 2026. The recipients are free to spend the grants, awarded by the Chicago-based funding organization United States Artists, however they choose.

2 - Brilant Milazimi will represent the Republic of Kosovo at this year's Venice Biennale. His work, described as an "immersive painting installation", is a 56-foot-long canvas called Hard Teeth showing a long line of people packed together on the kind of mountainous terrain that is a feature of the Balkan country.

3 - Norwegian architects Snohetta has won the competition to design the Beijing Art Museum in the city's Tongzhou District. Their work, done in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, will culminate in the building opening in 2029. The firm previously worked on the award-winning Beijing Library which opened in 2023.