Monet's home in the French village of Giverny looks set for a record-breaking year as more visitors than ever put it on their personal tourist trail.

Around 775,000 people visited the painter's house and gardens last year - an increase of 46% since 2010 - and the village mayor tells French newspaper Le Monde that number could rise to 900,000 in 2025.

And it is not likely to stop there - next year is the centenary of the great painter's death which will only put the village under even more of a spotlight.

As well as the obvious problems of overtourism for a village that is only home to 460 residents, there is also the puzzle of how the hundreds of thousands of visitors can be persuaded to look beyond the house and gardens.

Much of their popularity is attributed to "Instagram tourism" with the gardens, complete with water lillies and beautiful bridges, the perfect backdrop for social media selfies while the local museum, the only place in the village where you can see an actual Monet painting, only had 150,000 visitors last year.

The number of visitors who have walked through the doors of the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, which celebrated its tenth anniversary at the weekend, after it was set up by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad.

The art world is not short of people proudly proclaiming their activism but few have made the practical impact the late Agnes Gund did.

Tributes have poured in for the collector and philanthropist since her death on Thursday aged 87 with many mentioning her central role as President of New York's Museum of Modern Art during its $858 million expansion.

But arguably more impressive was the way she wielded her own personal art collection to benefit causes she believed in and the practical way she did it - by selling paintings.

In 2017, she sent Roy Lichtenstein’s Masterpiece (1962) for auction and used the $165 million it raised to set up the Art for Justice Fund which over six years handed out more than $127 million to artists and organizations campaigning for reform of the criminal justice system.

She did it again in 2023 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the power to regulate abortion to individual states, prompting her to sell another Lichtenstein for $3.1 million and divide the proceeds between two groups supporting reproductive rights.

Gund also chaired MoMA PS1, was a trustee at the Frick and the Morgan Library in New York and supported her hometown Cleveland Museum of Art. She regularly gave work away to museums with much of what is left reportedly already promised to different institutions.

That noise you can hear is the Jean-Michel Basquiat commercial steamroller gathering pace.

Not content with another biopic being filmed and the million dollar auctions sales, the estate of the late artist has struck a deal with clothing company Albino & Preto.

The collaboration incorporated some of the painter's trademark motifs into accessories and clothes made for martial arts including Jiu-Jitsu.

Among the items already sold out are a $270 martial arts jacket, $80 shorts and a range of $55 towels.

Anyone unable to wait the three-and-a-bit weeks until Frieze London can get an early fix courtesy of its sculpture park which opened on Wednesday.

Work by 14 artists, including Henrique Oliveira's Desnatureza 8 which uses scrap wood and rubble from demolished buildings to create the illusion of massive tree roots bursting from the earth, are on show in Regent's Park for free.

There was also a performance by sculptor Simon Hitchens yesterday who marked the autumnal equinox with an all-day live drawing performance.

Frieze Sculpture runs until November 2 with the art fair itself on from October 15 to 19.

1 - Alicia Keys hailed Mickalene Thomas as "walking art" after the painter was included in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2025. Also making the list was fellow painter Yoshitomo Nara, with Stella McCartney praising his "childlike, innocent, and direct" work.

2 - More than 90 people took more than seven hours to move the Bayeux Tapestry to a secret location on Friday following the controversial decision by Emmanuel Macron to lend it to the British Museum in London, according to French authorities. It is the first time the 223-ft-long tapestry, which depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066, has been moved in more than four decades.

3 - Thaddaeus Ropac opened its new Milan gallery on Saturday with a show of work by Georg Baselitz and Lucio Fontana. The show, which runs to November 21, includes paintings and sculptures by Baselitz with work made by Fontana from the 1930s to the 1960s.

4 - French documentary filmmaker Loic Prigent has teamed up with Art Basel Paris to curate a two-day section of the event where galleries present new work. He will also lead a guided tour of the fair, which runs from October 23 to 26, exploring the intersection of fashion and art.

5 - Shepard Fairey - best known for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster used in the 2008 presidential election - has created a new mural in central Philadelphia. The work, called Uplift Justice, shows a woman looking up at the scales of justice and the city's historic Liberty Bell.