The planned expansion of the Bilbao Guggenheim museum has been scrapped after almost two decades of controversy.

Elizabeth Etxanobe, from the museum's executive committee, said the building of a satellite site on a nearby nature reserve would have been too "long, complex and yet completely unguaranteed".

The Frank Gehry-designed museum is widely regarded as having transformed the industrial city in Spain's Basque Country with the Bilbao effect seen as proof of the economic power of the arts.

But the planned $117 million expansion, complete with a tunnel dug through a nearby mountain, has been opposed from the start by campaigners saying the ecological damage it would cause in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve would outweigh any economic benefit.

The Jefferson Hack-curated history of video art has extended its run at London's 180 Studios.

The show, which includes work by Dara Birnbaum, Arthur Jafa, Derek Jarman, Gillian Wearing and Andy Warhol, will now run to February 1.

Hack, who founded Dazed & Confused magazine with photographer Rankin while studying at the London College of Printing, said the show covers work from "the Super 8 and VHS revolutions of the 1970s and 80s to the digital hyper connectivity of our present moment".

The gallery also announced it is extending the run of its other current show by Ryoji Ikeda.

Don't blame me. That is the short version of what former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez told French politicians about his responsibility for the Paris museum's woeful security arrangements.

The art historian, who ran the museum from 2013 to 2021 until current director Laurence des Cars took over, told a hearing of the French Senate he had not neglected its anti-crime measures during his time in charge.

He was called to give evidence as part of an investigation into the heist which saw $102 million worth of jewels stolen in broad daylight in October.

Senator Laurent Lafon said it was "astonishing" a security audit carried out during Martinez's time in charge highlighted the "vulnerability" of the balcony used by the thieves to break into the gallery but nothing had been done about it.

Martinez denied being negligent and said the implementation of the security plan was delayed by the closure of the museum during the pandemic.

A new show combining Picasso's ceramics with new work by Miquel Barcelo has opened in Spain.

It is the latest in a series of shows placing his work with that of contemporary artists across key locations in his native Andalusia.

Reflections: Picasso x Barcelo is at the Museo de Almeria until March 15 when it moves on to Cadiz from March 25 to June 26.

1 - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said the country's museums should consider charging admission fees. The success of the sector, including the National Museum of Korea in Seoul which had more than 6 million visitors this year, has sparked a national debate about introducing charges.

2 - Theaster Gates is the latest artist to sign up to work on the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. The artist, who was born in the city and still lives and works there, will create a frieze from the photo archives of Ebony and Jet magazines which have helped tell the story of Black American life for more than half-a-century.

3 - Dia Art Foundation director Jessica Morgan is among the potential candidates to replace Maria Balshaw as director of the UK's Tate galleries, according to The Times of London. The newspaper also named London museum chiefs Tristram Hunt, from the V&A, and Victoria Siddall, from the National Portrait Gallery, as contenders.