The number of artworks stolen by the Nazis that Rose Valland, a curator at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris and member of the French resistance, helped to recover. Her story has been told in a new book, The Art Spy by Michelle Young, out now.

Over-excited critics worried about the dominance of New York's museums by a single gallery can start to breathe a little easier - the end is in sight for the so-called Hauser spring.

Lorna Simpson's solo show Source Notes opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art today - the final of the four major shows in the city by artists represented by Hauser & Wirth.

She follows on from Jack Whitten at MoMA, Amy Sherald at the Whitney and Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim.

Simpson's show, which runs to November 2, features more than 30 works with some from her acclaimed Venice Biennale debut in 2015.

It includes sculptures and photographs as well as paintings with her trademark use of found images.

A British couple have revealed how they "unwittingly" bought a lost portrait by Thomas Lawrence for under $4,000.

Andrew Tolmie and Nicholas Savage bought the work, now known to be a portrait of Prince Frederick, the Duke of York, that was unveiled at London's Royal Academy in 1822 but then disappeared, at a house sale in Germany after failing to win any of the auctions they wanted.

A portrait by Lawrence sold for $12.4 million in 2021 and the couple say they intend to sell this one.

Tolmie told the Times of London: "Things like that — discovering that we’d unwittingly bought a lost masterpiece — just don’t happen in real life."

Battered speaker towers from Berlin's techno clubs sit alongside a series of huge tapestries in a new show by Czech artist Klara Hosnedlova in the main hall of the city's Hamburger Bahnhof museum.

The show, which is the first in the series of the museum's Chanel commissions for large-scale projects in the 2,500-square-meter historic hall, runs to October 26.

The speakers play a mixture of traditional Czech songs, the sound of church bells and rap to provide the soundtrack to the exhibition featuring the handmade fabrics.

Hosnedlova has also laid more than 3,000 concrete slabs on the floor of the museum in an attempt to recreate the cracked pavements of her childhood home in post-communist eastern Europe.

She is also set to head to New York after the New Museum, led by Lisa Phillips, revealed she will create a site-specific commission for their new Atrium Stair as part of its reopening exhibition program.

Amy Werntz has won this year's $50,000 Bennett Prize for women figurative realist painters.

Her winning work is currently on show at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Michigan before a solo exhibition that will tour the US.

Werntz, who has previously been recognised by the Portrait Society of America, was a finalist for the Bennett Prize in 2021.

1 - Gretchen Dow Simpson, who contributed 58 covers for The New Yorker over almost 20 years, has died aged 85. She studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design but eventually found work as a photographer with a sideline in jewellery design before landing her first front cover for the magazine in 1974 after nine years of rejections.

2 - The stage version of Patrick Bringley's memoir about his time as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is in its final week. All the Beauty in the World runs until May 25 at the city's DR2 Theatre.

3 - A 37-year-old man has been given a suspended sentence for his part in the theft of Maurizio Cattelan's solid gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in England. Frederick Doe was convicted at Oxford crown court of conspiring to transfer criminal property after he was accused of offering to find a buyer for the gold.