The amount raised at this year's Academy Museum gala in Los Angeles where guests included Taylor Swift and Colman Domingo. The money funds exhibitions, screenings and education programs.

Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud and Peter Doig all feature in the the first-ever exhibition of works acquired through the UK government's Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes.

Doig's At the Edge of Town is one of around 40 works that will be at the National Gallery in London from May 22 to September 5 next year before touring the rest of the country.

Other works featured in the show, described by National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi as a "cultural cornucopia", include paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Paul Cezanne and Max Ernst.

The Acceptance in Lieu scheme allows individuals to donate major works to cover inheritance tax bills while the Cultural Gifts Scheme was set up 13 years ago to encourage philanthropists to give during their lifetimes.

Police have been called in after death threats were issued against the mayor of a German city over the installation of a statue of the devil.

The sculpture, by artist Tim Bengel, recalls a local legend about a market trader who tricked the devil by making him eat an onion instead of an apple and was installed in Esslingen-on-Neckar, near Stuttgart, earlier this month.

Bengel's previous works include a solid gold sculpture of an avocado bagel made for Berlin Art Week and valued at nearly $3 million.

More than 5,000 residents signed a petition demanding the 8ft-high devil statue be removed and there was also "a specific call for murder" against the mayor, according to reports in the newspaper Bild.

Vandals also painted the statue black in protest, but in a statement the mayor said it would stay and that the death threats had crossed a "red line".

1 - Patrick Graham and Cathy Wilkes won Dublin Gallery Weekend’s inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts. Graham won the $29,000 Lifetime Achievement Award and Wilkes won the $17,000 Mid-Career Artist Award.

2 - New York mayor Zohran Mamdani spent his birthday at Harlem's Studio Museum. The politician told his 12.5 million Instagram followers he was "still thinking about The hypnotist by Taylor Simmons" and shared a picture of the painting.

3 - Chicago's Prairie gallery has announced it is closing after nine years with a final group show called Retrospective. The gallery said the closure had been planned for a year and was nothing to do with commercial pressures with founder Jack Schneider telling ARTnews they "never expected to turn a profit and we never did."

4 - Helia Paukner has been named artistic director of Lyon's Biennale of Contemporary Art succeeding Isabelle Bertolotti who has been in charge since 2018. A double appointment means she will also take on the director's role at the city's contemporary art museum.