The finishing touches are being put in place for two major museum extensions in the coming weeks.

New York's New Museum opens its $82 million new building on Saturday after a four-year construction project.

But any New Yorker walking past it on the Bowery recently will already have seen one of its major new works - Tschabalala Self's sculpture Art Lovers on its facade.

She told The New York Times her work, which has been installed near where the original building meets the new one, was inspired by her 2022 painting Madly and shows a couple in "a tender, yet somewhat manic, embrace".

On the opposite coast, Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA) director Michael Govan admitted he was "somewhat sad" to see Francis Bacon's $142.4 million Three Studies of Lucian Freud installed in the $720 millon David Geffen galleries ahead of their opening next month.

The paintings were gifted to the museum by philanthropist Elaine Wynn upon her death.

Govan told the LA Times "museum directors are never sad to see a masterpiece on the wall for the opening of their brand new museum", but added: "I was assuming we would just have a cocktail party at her home after the opening of the building... I never imagined the paintings would be here, because, of course, I thought Elaine would be here."

The number of people who regularly get around a table for Sofia Coppola's lunch club in Greenwich Village, New York. The filmmaker told Elle she had been meeting up with fellow writer-director Tamara Jenkins and artists Rachel Feinstein and Sarah Sze for about a decade.

Barbara Hepworth's fascination with color is the subject of a new show at London's Courtauld Gallery.

The exhibition, which runs from June 12 to September 6, brings together around 20 of her sculptures with 30 drawings and paintings.

Among them are a pair of painted stone carvings, Eidos and Eros, which are being shown together in the UK for the first time since 1954.

Also included is the painted wood carving, Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form), Pale Blue and Red (1943), which was acquired for the nation by The Hepworth Wakefield in 2025 following a successful national fundraising campaign that helped raise the $5 million to keep it in the country.

To coincide with the exhibition, there will be a display of photographs of the London studio Hepworth shared with her then husband, Ben Nicholson, in the 1930s.

1 - Previously unseen works by Etel Adnan feature in the show, Au coeur du silence, at the Lelong gallery on Avenue Matignon in Paris which opens tonight. Adnan only began seriously drawing when she was 34 and the show features work from her 60 year career including two tapestries based on one of her sketches.

2 - The same gallery's rue de Teheran space brings David Hockney's full moon iPad images to Paris from today. He produced them during lockdown at his home in Normandy in 2020 when he painted every full moon throughout the year.

3 - The Roy Lichtenstein show opening today at Gagosian's West 24th Street in New York is a family affair. The paintings and sculptures all come from the collection of Lichtenstein's heirs and include works from the 1970s and 1980s including some preliminary studies for major sculptures and murals.

4 - Elizabeth Murray and Betty Woodman share the spotlight in a joint show opening today at the David Kordansky gallery in Los Angeles. Work produced over three decades is included with Woodman's ceramics and Murray's paintings exemplifying their "genre-defying practices" and "visual pleasure and humor".

1 - An exhibition of work by Italian Renaissance master Lorenzo Lotto is among the highlights planned for Ancona in 2028 when the city is Italy's Capital of Culture. It is just one of more than 80 site-specific projects planned for the year with artists including poet Gabriele Tinti and filmmaker Abel Ferrara also involved.

2 - Australian artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby will have her first European solo show as part of this year's Glasgow International contemporary art biennial. The festival, which runs from June 5 to 21, also includes a new installation by Tanoa Sasraku, screenings of Naeem Mohaiemen's film Through a Mirror, Darkly and an exhibition of work by Anya Paintsil at the city's School of Art.

3 - New work by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will go on show in a major exhibition dedicated to his career at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The show, which runs from December 5 to July 18, is his first retrospective in the country.

4 - Firefighters were called to a blaze at Serbia's pavilion in the Giardini at the Venice Biennale yesterday. No one was injured and the fire on the building's roof was brought under control.

5 - San Francisco's Daniel Libeskind-designed Contemporary Jewish Museum is up for sale. The 63,000 sq ft building on Mission Street has been closed for more than a year and the museum's leadership hopes the sale will help balance their books by paying off debt of around $14 million.

6 - The Tate has announced plans to take part in one of the traditional highlights of the London summer - the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show. The Tate Britain Garden will be designed by Tom Stuart-Smith and is intended to offer a taster of the Clore Garden which he is also designing at the gallery in the capital.