We write a lot about troubles in the museum world - cuts to budgets, low pay and falling visitor numbers, but can you really complain until you have moved your entire collection under gunfire?

That is what happened to Allenby Augustin, director of Le Centre d’Art d’Haiti in Port-au-Prince, who with an armed guard of local police managed to move most of its 6,000 artworks and 3,600 documents to safety last week.

He told The Washington Post he was "confident" most of the collection, which includes work by Hector Hyppolite and Georges Liautaud, was safe after being moved to an undisclosed location away from the museum which is in part of the city controlled by the warring gangs who have killed and kidnapped thousands of people and estimated to have driven more than 1 million from their homes.

Police used armored vehicles to barricade the roads around the museum while dozens of people loaded the collection despite gang members opening fire on police from a building next door.

Augustin told the newspaper preserving the collection was "essential to transmitting Haitian history and identity to future generations".

Ann Philbin, the director emeritus of Los Angeles' Hammer Museum, has won this year's $500,000 Getty Prize and promptly given half of it to America's beleaguered National Public Radio (NPR).

It comes just as US politicians vote in favor of President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" which includes a $1.1 billion cut to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which provides funding for NPR.

The prize, whose previous winners include Frank Gehry and Ed Ruscha, includes a $500,000 grant for a nonprofit of the winner’s choice and Philbin selected NPR and its Los Angeles stations, KCRW and LAist.

Philbin, who ran the Hammer Museum for 25 years, told the Los Angeles Times she wanted to "shine a light" on "freedom of speech and freedom of the press".

The number of years a locked-up Prada store, complete with shoes and handbags from the fashion label's Fall 2005 collection, has stood on the side of Highway 90 near the Texan desert town of Marfa. Prada Marfa was installed as a permanent sculpture by artists Elmgreen & Dragset who celebrated their landmark work's survival with an Instagram post this week.

Visitors to this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, are promised a "sneak peek" at George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art.

The Star Wars filmmaker will appear alongside director Guillermo del Toro and film designer Doug Chiang at the event on Sunday July 27 moderated by singer Queen Latifah.

The Los Angeles museum, planned by Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson Lucas, has not been without its problems - it recently announced the departure of its executive director and laid off another 22 staff - but is set to open next year with work by Carrie Mae Weems, Diego Rivera and Norman Rockwell among the collection.

Visitors to London's Tate Modern will see the latest in the gallery's Tate Play series open in its Turbine Hall from tomorrow.

Monster Chetwynd's theatrical installation, Thunder, Crackle and Magic, is inspired by filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's 1975 version of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

The three-part installation includes live performers and costumes and props allowing visitors to share the stage and runs to August 25.

1 - Three centuries of fashion history has gone on show in a new museum in Arles in the south of France. More than 20,000 pieces of clothing and accessories make up the collection of the Musée Fragonard de la Mode et du Costume which opened its doors for the first time this month.

2 - New neon works and paintings by Rasheed Araeen are included in a show that opened yesterday at New York's Aicon Gallery. More of the 90-year-old artist's work is set to feature in a major group show dedicated to minimal art at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris from October 8.

3 - A new section at the Colosseum Archaeological Park in Rome turns its attention outward to the crowds who attended the games. Graffiti, jewelry and everyday items from toothpicks to dice are used to recreate the world of the 50,000-strong spectators who watched the games in Roman times.