Works by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro are among a haul of treasures seized by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) as part of its ongoing investigation into the 1MDB scandal.

The four works are believed to have been bought with money taken from the country's development fund as part of a wide-ranging fraud.

The haul, which also includes works by Balthus and Maurice Utrillo, is now back in Malaysia undergoing an "acclimatization" process before being officially authenticated and valued.

MACC has recovered assets worth around $7.8 billion as part of its investigation into the fraud which saw a fortune siphoned off from the sovereign wealth fund and spent on art and property.

Last year, the US Marshals Service auctioned two works by Jean-Michel Basquiat - including one formerly owned by Leonardo DiCaprio - for $30 million that had been seized as part of the scandal.

The alleged mastermind of the fraud, financier Jho Low, has not faced justice and is believed to be hiding in China.

The opening this Saturday of the V&A's latest London building has been overshadowed by accusations of censorship.

V&A East is due to open its doors with a major exhibition about the history of Black British music and the first look at two free permanent Why We Make galleries filled with 500 objects from its collection including work by Yinka Ilori, Vivienne Westwood and Althea McNish.

But instead of looking forward to the launch of its new museum, part of a $1.49 billion regeneration of its east London neighborhood, it spent the day on the defensive after the Guardian newspaper reported it removed images from catalogs at the request of its Chinese publishers who said they broke its censorship laws.

Among the examples reported were the removal of a photograph of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin from the catalogue for its 2021 exhibition Faberge: Romance to Revolution after the printers said it would be considered "sensitive" and a map of British trade routes which included China.

A spokesperson for the V&A, headed by former politician Tristram Hunt, said the changes requested had been “minor”.

The number of the winning ticket in the charity raffle for a $1.2 million work by Pablo Picasso. It was bought last weekend by Ari Hodara, an engineer and art enthusiast from Paris, and picked out during a draw at Christie's in the French capital yesterday.

James McNeill Whistler is the subject of two separate shows in the Netherlands this year.

More than 100 works by the American-born painter will feature in a major exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam including the famous portrait of his mother and a series of images of the River Thames in London.

The Mesdag Collection in The Hague will host another exhibition, showcasing work he created during visits to the Netherlands, at the same time.

Whistler: Dandy and Disruptor is at the Van Gogh Museum from October 16 to January 10 with Whistler: Loving the Netherlands on view concurrently at The Mesdag Collection.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is sending a work back to South Korea for restoration.

It has collaborated with the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation (OKCHF) to restore a 19th-century landscape from its collection.

The painting was made up of 10 separate scrolls when it was bought by the museum but will be returned to its original format across a 10-panel folding screen by a team at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul.

The OKCHF has worked on 64 restoration projects with 34 institutions in 10 countries since it was founded in 2013.

1 - Brazilian artists Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejao will collaborate on the country's pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale. Curated by Diane Lima, it will include work from the last three decades as well as new pieces in the recently restored building which was designed in 1964.

2 - New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting its annual Women & the Critical Eye program today. This year's event features a conversation between artists Nicole Eisenman, Danielle Mckinney and Kay WalkingStick on the "the experience of motherhood in artistic practice".

3 - The Bennett Prize for women figurative realist painters has upgraded its top prize from $50,000 to $75,000. The winner gets a solo exhibition at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Michigan with 10 finalists showing their work in a traveling exhibition organized by the museum. The prize was set up in 2018 by US art collector Steven Alan Bennett and curator Elaine Melotti Schmidt.

4 - The Alexander Calder show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris opens today - 100 years after he first arrived in the city. It includes almost 300 of his works and exhibits alongside pieces by friends and contemporaries including Hans Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Jean Helion and Piet Mondrian.

5 - Los Angeles architects Johnston Marklee will design a new pavilion for the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach. The 22,000 sq ft site, currently parking, is set to include a new gallery and a stage. The firm previously worked on projects for New York's Whitney Museum and the Marian Goodman Gallery in Los Angeles.