The $1.5 billion "rethinking, reimagining and reinstalling" of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will not include a new entrance from Central Park.

The museum's relationship to the park - it sits on the east side of it - has been much discussed over the years.

More than a decade ago David Chipperfield was commissioned to design a new Southwest Wing that was never built and said he wanted to "support a more open dialogue between the Museum and Central Park".

But Met curator emeritus Morrison H. Heckscher told The New York Times security concerns made the idea impossible, saying: "Entering the museum from the park is a nice idea, but it doesn’t work.”

Museum director Max Hollein told the newspaper the Met was not expanding but instead was "moving upward and improving".

That spirit of using the same space differently and better can be seen in the newly announced Alberto Giacometti show which places his sculptures in and around another exhibit - the Ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur from June.

The pre-tax profit made by auction house Sotheby's in 2025, according to the Financial Times, which comes after losses in previous years.

Four-time Grammy nominee singer-songwriter Jewel is taking "a cautionary tale" in the form of a sound and art installation to Venice in time for this year's Biennale.

The performer, who has sold more than 30 million albums around the world, will show her work at the city's Salone Verde in association with Walmart heiress Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

The installation, called Matriclysm: An Archeology of Connections Lost, runs from May 7 to November 22 and includes painting, sculpture, tapestry and sound works.

Among them are hand-blown glass orbs, family portraits and a monumental sculpture of a pregnant kneeling woman made in collaboration with Congolese artist Patrick Bongoy.

Jewel said the works were about "memory", adding: "If something of a cautionary tale, my hope is that the show reminds us what it feels like to be in closer harmony, inviting us to unearth ways to reconnect us to ourselves, each other, and the world around us."

1 - Paula Rego's family tree is at the heart of a new show of her drawings at Victoria Miro gallery in London. Among the works on show at the exhibition, which opens tonight, are a sketch of her grandmother the late artist made when she was nine years old and a drawing of her own granddaughter.

2 - Four sculptures made in the last months of Peter Alexander's life will feature in a show at Pace gallery in Seoul which opens tonight. Alexander, who died in 2020, was a key figure in the Light and Space movement that sprang up around Los Angeles and this is the first solo show of his work in South Korea.

3- The campesino culture of Puerto Rico's peasant farmers is the inspiration for the Armig Santos show opening today at Levy Gorvy Dayan gallery in New York. The largest painting in the show, which runs to June 13, is a 7ft by 11ft image of a lone cowboy on horseback which shares the canvas with fragments of a failed self-portrait.

1 - A snake mosaic by performance artist and photographer Linder will be unveiled at London Zoo in July. The work, made from marble and granite, depicts an Ethiopian Mountain adder and is a tribute to pioneering zoologist Joan Procter who was the first female curator of reptiles at the zoo.

2 - Georgia O'Keeffe is online. A new project, Access O'Keeffe, has digitized more than 2,200 of her works and the database is open to anyone to search the images as well as exhibition histories and archive materials. See for yourself at access-ok.gokm.org.

3 - An imagined love triangle between a fictional young French woman and Claude Monet and pioneering photographer Felix Nadar is the theme of a new film. The French rom-com, Colours of Time, is in UK cinemas tomorrow.

4 - Police were called to Berlin's Bode Museum after a woman glued herself to a display case in an anti-government protest. The woman was reported to have dressed up as the country's controversial economics minister Katherina Reiche. The police said no damage was caused to the collection.

5 - Basel's Fondation Beyeler is offering free entry to anyone who visits its Cezanne show on May 1 in their swimwear. The idea is inspired by the artist's series of Bathers paintings with the gallery saying it wants to bring his "vision of the human body in nature into the present day".