If anything summed up the uncertain state of our museums, it is the news the $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has laid off 14% of its staff before even opening its doors.

The Los Angeles-based institution, set to open next year, was founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson Lucas, and originally planned to welcome the public in 2023.

Among the sacked staff was film curator Bernardo Rondeau who posted on Linkedin that he discovered he had lost his job while at the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France.

In a statement, the museum said the job losses were "due to a necessary shift of the institution’s focus to ensure we open on time next year."

Earlier this year it lost director and chief executive, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, who stepped down after five years in charge. Her role was split between two positions with Lucas looking after "content direction" and former film industry executive Jim Gianopulos taking over as interim chief executive.

The broader museum sector is still struggling to reset post-Covid with the Guggenheim in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among those cutting jobs while in the UK the Tate, Science Museum Group and Royal Academy are making redundancies.

One of the largest ever presentations of works by Paul Cezanne is going on show in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence as part of a major celebration of his life.

More than 130 paintings and sketches will be gathered in the city's Musee Granet, from June 28 to October 12, to coincide with the reopening of his family home, the Jas de Bouffan mansion, and the renovation of his final studio.

The events are part of a wider project to restore the mansion, where the painter lived and worked for 40 years, and open it to the public permanently.

Work by Chinese painter Duan Jianyu will feature in the first exhibition at London's Yan Du Projects founded by and named after the Chinese collector and philanthropist.

The building in Bloomsbury opens in October and will also host an artist-in-residence with Bangkok-based Harit Srikhao starting work in September.

It will also host site-specific commissions, exhibitions and public events as part of her attempt to build what she calls "transcultural dialogues".

Philadelphia's Calder Gardens - inspired by and dedicated to the work of Alexander Calder - opens its doors on September 21.

The site includes a sculpture garden by landscape designer Piet Oudolf.

It will host a rotating selection of Calder's work but insists on its website it "is not a museum" describing itself instead as a "multilayered cultural space to be navigated and experienced in different ways".

The works will come from the Calder Foundation, which is led by the artist’s grandson, Sandy Rower.

Calder was born in Philadelphia where his father and grandfather, who were also both sculptors, worked.

Curator Bill Horrigan, who was credited with bringing video art to a wider audience, has died aged 73.

Horrigan spent more than three decades at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, working with artists from Mark Dion and Shirin Neshat to filmmaker John Waters.

Asked to sum up his approach to work, he told the Columbus Dispatch newspaper: “Let’s do whatever we want and see who shows up."

1 - The Getty Villa reopens next month after the museum was forced to close its doors in January by the fires that devastated Los Angeles. President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Katherine Fleming, said it will re-open on June 27 with a new exhibition, The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece, featuring more than 230 artifacts from the Mycenaean civilization.

2 - The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) opens its second Villa Warsaw selling show tomorrow. The event, which runs to Sunday, features work from 50 galleries across 15 countries at the city's historic Villa Gawrońskich.

3 - Boston's first Public Art Triennial opens tomorrow with work by Beatriz Cortez and Alison Croney Moses going on show. The city-wide exhibition runs until October.