Amy Sherald has become the first living painter to get Time magazine's cover all to themselves since Robert Rauschenberg 50 years ago.

She is the face of the Time 100 Most Influential People in Art which described her as someone who "would rather walk away than water down her art" - a reference to her decision to pull her planned show from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC amid fears her painting of a trans woman Statue of Liberty could be censored.

Sherald, whose picture for the cover was taken by Tyler Mitchell, told the magazine she was inspired by watching Oprah Winfrey giving away cars on her show and wanted to "set up a big foundation where there's rolling grants for artists for medical care, for housing, for studios".

She follows the likes of Salvador Dali, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andrew Wyeth as Time cover stars.

The magazine's art 100, described by editor in chief Sam Jacobs as a list of people "who are writing the field’s most important headlines", also includes artists Refik Anadol and Maurizio Cattelan, collector Ken Griffin and Christie's CEO Bonnie Brennan.

The size of the biodegradable piece of land art created by Saype to promote Brad Pitt's new film Heart of the Beast. The work, which overlooks the Mont-Blanc massif in the French Alps and shows a human hand holding a dog’s paw, is inspired by the film's plot about a man and his dog's attempt to survive a plane crash in Alaska.

It has been quite the week for architect Frida Escobedo.

On Tuesday she was in New York to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art formally break ground on the new wing she designed and last night it was announced she will design the $50 million expansion of the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA).

The Mexican architect's involvement was announced by museum founder Eduardo Costantini during a private gala to mark its 25th anniversary where he confirmed the planned underground expansion will double its exhibition space when it opens in late 2029 or early 2030.

Costantini also announced the donation to the museum of thousands of works including landmark pieces by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Leonora Carrington.

The Reuben family is following up its $40 million gift to London's Courtauld Gallery with the loan of dozens of works from its collection.

Paintings by Paul Cezanne, Amadeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Rene Magritte are included in the show which opens today.

It also includes works by Juan Gris, Fernand Leger and Man Ray whose work, Black Widow, was last seen in the UK more than 50 years ago.

It comes after the family supported the Courtauld's plan for a new campus on The Strand due to open in 2029.

The Reuben Foundation, set up by British businessmen and brothers David and Simon Reuben, has previously supported exhibitions on Ai Weiwei and Stanley Kubrick at London's Design Museum among others.

Works by Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien will go on show later this year at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art after it acquired 38 paintings from his daughter.

The acquisition, funded in part by philanthropists Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang, was hailed by museum director Max Hollein as "presenting a panoramic view of the artist’s life" which took him from China to Hong Kong, Brazil and finally Taiwan before his death in 1983.

It includes works from the 1930s to the 1980s as well as unfinished pieces and rare examples of self-portraiture.

Some of them will go on display in the museum's Astor Forecourt later this year with others included in a planned 2028 exhibition on 20th-century Chinese ink painting.

1 - Florence's Uffizi is open as usual today after torrential rain in the city caused a leak in one of its rooms. A gallery spokesperson said "water splashed onto the outer glass of the protective case" housing Caravaggio's Bacchus, but "none of the artworks sustained any damage".

2 - Keith Haring’s We the Youth mural is closer to getting official recognition - and protection - from the city of Philadelphia. Members of its Historical Commission unanimously approved its nomination to be included on its Register of Historic Places with a final vote due next month.

3 - A photograph showing President Trump apparently examining a printout about the demolition of the Kennedy Center has sparked further alarm about the future of the Washington DC institution. The White House has said a proposed $257 million renovation of the building will only go ahead if the president's name is added to its facade.