Judy Chicago says she has been left "profoundly disappointed" after quitting a project to help design Google's new $300 million HQ.

She was picked in September to produce a new tiled floor with her husband, Donald Woodman, for the building in her hometown of Chicago but has quit before the job is finished.

She told the city's Sun Times newspaper the scheme turned into a "nightmare" with one member of the team complaining her design, based on her 1973 work Through the Flower, was too bright.

A spokesman for the search engine giant told the newspaper he could not say if another artist would be asked to take over.

Billions of people around the world are celebrating the start of the Year of the Fire Horse but according to a press announcement today it might actually be the year of Anish Kapoor.

The British sculptor has announced a "year-long program" of "major solo presentations across the United States, Europe and the UK" that will continue his "exploration of space, the void, and the transformative power of materiality."

Two of the shows - at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah and the Lisson Gallery in New York - are already open with more to come including a survey at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany, and the Serlachius Museum in Mantta, Finland.

He is also opening a show in May in his Palazzo Manfrin in Venice to coincide with the biennale.

Last month, Kapoor said he wants to send a sculpture into space at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

He told The Times of London his plan would strike a blow against the commercialization of cosmic exploration and revive "the early sense of adventure in space".

The estimated cost to the Louvre of the recently uncovered ticket fraud run by members of staff, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office

A German museum has been accused of "stalling" for almost two decades over claims one of its paintings was stolen by the Nazis.

The heirs of Jewish collector Hugo Simon say the Folkwang Museum in Essen should return Franz Marc's painting Horse in a Landscape which is valued at around $36 million.

The painting was in Simon's collection as late as 1938 but it is unclear what happened after that until the museum bought it in 1953.

Simon's great-grandson Rafael Cardoso told the New York Times: "They have been stalling us for 18 years. And they continue to put up obstacles, practical and procedural, at every juncture. Enough is enough."

The museum said it had commissioned three different investigations into the painting's provenance with the latest expected to report later this year.

Its lawyer Friederike von Bruhl said she could "cannot recommend restitution" on the "facts unearthed so far".

1 - A statue of English poet Lord Byron will be moved to Hyde Park in central London after $500,000 was raised to pay for its restoration. The statue was left marooned for years on an inaccessible piece of land by a three-lane road.

2 - A mural of murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has gone up in Las Vegas - paid for in part by Elon Musk. It is one of almost two dozen murals commissioned of her in cities including Los Angeles and Miami after her murder on a train in North Carolina.

3 - American documentary maker Frederick Wiseman has died at home in Massachusetts aged 96. His 2014 film National Gallery offered a three-hour virtual tour of the London museum and a look behind the scenes at its work while it was led by director Nicholas Penny.

4 - Miami's Museum of Graffiti is opening its own free artist studios this month. The cost of the studios is met by the museum with the first artists to benefit including several who started out on the graffiti scene such as Jel Martinez and Ras Terms.

5 - French diplomat Anne-Claire Legendre has replaced Jack Lang as president of the Arab World Institute in Paris. Lang, a former Minister of Culture, stood down after the publication of the Epstein Files revealed his long-standing relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.