A Ukrainian world heritage site and art museums in two separate cities have been hit by Russian missile strikes.

The attacks were condemned by French president Emmanuel Macron as an "attack on our universal heritage".

Ukraine's Ministry of Culture said the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery "sustained significant destruction" with damage also done to several nearby museum buildings. There were no casualties or injuries.

An attack on a historic film studio saw thousands of costumes destroyed, while hundreds of miles away a drone strike hit the Kharkiv Art Museum causing "significant damage" with hundreds of paintings damaged and 10 destroyed completely.

The country's minister of culture, Tetyana Berezhna, said the attacks had "all the hallmarks of a deliberate strike on Ukrainian culture, memory, and identity" and were "an attack on world cultural heritage".

The price Francois-Xavier Lalanne's four frog fountains sold for at a Christie's auction in New York last week. That is more than two-and-a-half times their low estimate and further proof of the demand for works by the late French artist and his wife Claude - both of whom recently had record sales.

Frida Kahlo has made history in London with her Tate Modern show already a record-breaker before it opens.

The gallery has sold more than 35,000 tickets for Frida: The Making of an Icon, which opens next week, making it the highest pre-selling show in Tate’s history.

It has also embarked on a project to take the show beyond the building with six large-scale public murals painted in the district surrounding the gallery which will stay in place for several years.

Central London will also see installations celebrating her work including a series of traditional Mexican paper garlands installed in Carnaby Street by Alejandra Ballesteros.

Tate Modern's interim director Catherine Wood said the gallery had seen "extraordinary demand" for the show which was "testament to the enduring power of her story and her work".

It comes days after Basel's Beyeler Foundation said it will host a major show of her work next year with some paintings reportedly on loan from the newly-reopened Dolores Olmedo museum in Mexico City.

The Frank Bowling Foundation launches next Wednesday to promote the painter's legacy and expand access to art education.

Its first project is a show of his works on paper at the Royal Drawing School in London, but it will also fund scholarships at art schools in the capital as well as support galleries and pay for art supplies for young students.

Bowling, 92, said its mission, which he said had "always been close to my heart", was to "empower people, especially children, to create".

The Royal Drawing School show includes work from his own time as an art student up to the present day and runs from June 25 to August 22.

Former French prime minister Laurent Fabius has gone back to his roots and swapped politics for painting.

A show of his work opens in Paris on Thursday at the Art Absolument gallery only a year after stepping down from his last major public role as president of France's Constitutional Council.

Fabius, who was prime minister from 1984-86, is the son and grandson of Parisian gallery owners and has called his latest show 'Free'.

He told French journalists the difference between art and politics is "When you're a public official, you constantly have to consider what others think. When you're a painter, you're a creator."

1 - The director of the Acropolis Museum, Nikolaos Stampolidis, has welcomed the release of a new docudrama telling the story of how the Parthenon Sculptures were removed from Athens to the British Museum in London. He said The Woman Behind Elgin, based on letters written by the wife of the British aristocrat who removed them in the 19th century, would have more effect on "the wider public" than "sound arguments and evidence".

2 - Florence's Uffizi Galleries signed a cooperation agreement with the National Museum of Korea in Seoul. The deal, sealed by South Korean president Lee Jae Myung during a state visit to Italy, means they will work together on exhibitions and share works from their collections.

3 - Alex Margo Arden's new show, Nothing Personal, which opens at London's Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in October is inspired by the life and career of the late singer Amy Winehouse. A spokesperson said the show, which "restages the personal property" of the star who died in 2011 after a public struggle with addiction, examines how "celebrity ownership and death" can transform everyday objects into "sites of fetishisation and speculation".

4 - Sculptor Leonardo Drew has joined Hauser & Wirth with the gallery set to stage a solo show of his work in New York next year. Drew, whose work can be seen at Tate and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, will also have new work at Art Basel which opens this week.