Turner Prize winner Tai Shani says her decision to cancel a planned book with the publisher Phaidon over its owner Leon Black's links to Jeffrey Epstein is an attempt to "meet this moment with some kind of moral consistency".

The artist, who won the contemporary art prize in 2019 when it was shared between all the shortlist, said the move was prompted by "horrific allegations" against Black in the recently published Epstein files.

Writing on Instagram, she said they were part of "the many unsurprising ties to the art world" in the files.

Pressure over Black's links to Epstein saw him step down as chairman of the board of New York's Museum of Modern Art in 2021. He maintains he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal activities and has denied any wrongdoing.

HENI News contacted Phaidon but the firm is yet to comment.

Earlier this month, former French cabinet minister Jack Lang resigned as head of the Arab World Institute over his links to Epstein and its Paris offices were raided by police on Monday as part of an investigation into his ties to the convicted sex offender.

The size of the tax bill settled by the Spanish family of the Counts of Vega Grande de Guadalupe by handing over a trove of baroque paintings that hung in their dining room for hundreds of years. Among them are two paintings by Luca Giordano, six by Bartolome Esteban Murillo and one by Juan Carreno de Miranda.

A series of large multipaneled paintings by Lubaina Himid will show "the UK in a clear, contemporary light" at this year's Venice Biennale.

Further details of her show, called Predicting History: Testing Translation, have just been released ahead of its opening on May 9.

The British Council's Emma Dexter, who commissioned the pavilion, said Himid used "dazzling color, layered sound and narrative" to show "the UK as a space of both possibility and tension".

She added: "This exhibition explores what it means to belong, challenging dominant histories and representing the UK in a clear, contemporary light – open, complex, and shaped by many voices."

It also includes a "surreal soundscape" created in collaboration with Magda Stawarska.

Himid is not the only major female UK artist making a splash in Venice this year with previously unseen work by Jenny Saville going on show there next month.

It is her first major show in the city and includes work from the start of her career in the 1990s with around 30 paintings including a room of new work created "in homage to the lagoon city".

Her show opens on March 28 and closes on November 22 when the biennale also ends and is at the Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art.

Its legendary collection includes the David Bowie archive, historic furniture and couture by Christian Dior and Coco Chanel and now they are joined at London's V&A by a piece of internet history - the first video ever uploaded to YouTube.

The museum, led by director Tristram Hunt, said the "landmark acquisition" of the YouTube page showing the clip Me at the zoo captured "a foundational moment in the rise of user-generated content".

Lasting only 19 seconds, the clip shows YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo talking about elephants and has been viewed nearly 380 million times since it was first posted on April 23, 2005.

It goes on show from today in the Design 1900-Now gallery at its South Kensington building.

More than 100 works by Joan Miro are being shown as part of a celebration of 50 years of his foundation.

The anniversary program includes exhibitions as well as concerts and research projects examining the career of the painter and sculptor.

Its collection has been reorganized to go on show as a "living exhibition" in and around its Josep Lluis Sert-designed complex in the hills above Barcelona.

The building's Cypress Garden, which was previously off limits to the public, will open as part of the celebrations.

Poetry Has just Begun: 50 Years of the Miro opens on June 11 and runs to March 29.

1 - Around 100 people took part in a protest at the University of North Texas on Monday against the dropping of Victor Quinonez's exhibition at its College of Visual Art & Design. The university, near Dallas, has not said why it canceled the show which included work critical of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

2 - Gagosian's Los Angeles gallery is holding a show of Jonas Wood's tennis court paintings next month. The works show empty courts without players or officials and continue a series he began in 2011.

3 - Camille Brown, an associate curator at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC is one of eight people chosen to take part in the Studio Museum's arts leadership program. Thelma Golden, the chief curator of the museum in New York, said the program which works with mid-career museum staff of color would "support professionals who share our passion for an expansive arts landscape".