The amount given in grants by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts this spring. The money was divided between 78 organizations including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.

British Museum chairman George Osborne said he expects around one million people to come to London to see the Bayeux Tapestry.

The former British politician said there were five applicants for every ticket when the first batch of 100,000 went on sale.

He told The Times of London the historic embroidery, which details the Norman conquest of England in 1066, had exceeded his "wildest expectations".

Recalling his time as the UK's chief finance minister, he said: "I remember when I was chancellor of the exchequer being taken to see the gold reserves underneath the Bank of England and being blown away. The Bayeux Tapestry exceeded my expectations in the same way."

The show, which will run from September 10 to July 11, has been controversial in France with fears raised about potential damage caused by moving it to the UK, but a French official told journalists it had suffered "no visible alteration" during the journey.

More than 120 works by Willem de Kooning are coming to the Netherlands for a major show 100 years after he left the country stowing away on a ship to New York.

The show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will be the largest European exhibition of his work in more than 40 years and includes major paintings alongside rarely seen sketches.

Dutch-born de Kooning moved to New York aged 22 and became a major figure in the US art scene along with contemporaries including Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

The show opens on October 9 and runs to January 17.

1 - A Katharina Grosse show opens at Oslo's Munch Museum on September 26. The exhibition, which runs to December 31, will feature new work created in Munch's historic studio in the city and described as being "in dialogue" with the Norwegian artist and his "legacy".

2 - New York's New Museum opens its major Arthur Jafa show on September 24. The show, which runs to January 4, includes never-before-seen work as well as landmark films such as Love is the Message, The Message is Death and The White Album alongside paintings and sculptures.

3 - Seattle will be home to two separate art fairs in the last weekend in July. The long-running Seattle Art Fair, which attracts around 80 galleries from around the world, will be in competition with the new Assembly Art Fair with both open to the public from July 23-26.

4 - Pat Oleszko has won this year's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award from New York's Whitney Museum. The judges praised her "singular combination of talent and imagination" after her inflatable sculpture was a hit at this year's Whitney Biennial.