Christoph Muller is hardly the first millionaire to give his collection to museums after his death but he must be the first to let curators choose what they want via an online marketplace.

His foundation has set up a website where prospective new owners can browse the more than 1,500 works left after his death, aged 86, in Berlin in 2024.

The German writer and publisher gave away hundreds of works to museums during his lifetime and his foundation says moving what is left "into the possession of public museums is, for us, Christoph Müller's unspoken mission".

The offer is open to curators of public museums who have until the end of the year to "order their selected works for their museum with a single click".

Among the artists whose work is up for offer are Gerhard Altenbourg, Hermann Glockner, Peter Ilsted and Hans Baldung.

Winning museums have to commit to "handling the works with care, not selling them, and notifying the Christoph Müller Foundation whenever a work is loaned to another museum".

The foundation has also appointed a jury to decide who gets what if more than one museum selects the same work.

The asking price for Rancho Leone - the sprawling film set complete with a sheriff’s office, saloon, and gallows - in Almeria, Spain, where Sergio Leone filmed his legendary western Once Upon a Time in the West.

The boss of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has hailed an "innovative collaboration" that allows it to show three masterpieces of Nigerian art despite them being donated back to the African nation.

Max Hollein announced the deal, which will see the works loaned to the Met for 25 years, saying it allowed the museum to "bring outstanding works of art to the public in compelling and scholarly displays that reach to the widest possible audiences".

The three works come from the collection of Ceil Pulitzer who agreed to donate them to the Friends of Nigeria’s Cultural Heritage once the Met loan had been agreed.

They can be seen in the recently reopened Michael C. Rockefeller Wing and there is an option for the loan to be extended.

Art Basel is backing Emily in Paris star Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu to bring a little Oh La La! to its French fair.

The actress, who plays the title character's boss in the hit show, has been appointed artistic director of its Oh La La! rehang program which allows galleries to transform their booths with new works on Friday and Saturday.

Art Basel Paris, led by director Karim Crippa, will bring 211 galleries to the Grand Palais in the city from October 23 to 25 with preview days on the 21 and 22.

Georg Baselitz, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois and George Condo are among the artists whose work will be at the event which had more than 73,000 visitors last year.

1 - The first-ever Yucatan biennial opens in Mexico in November under the leadership of artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. The event, held in Merida from November 26 to February 28, involves 76 artists from 20 different countries with planning already underway for its 2028 and 2030 editions.

2 - Six new large-scale paintings by Albert Oehlen are being brought to Frieze London by Gagosian. They can be seen in a solo booth at the event in Regent's Park from October 14 to 18.

3 - Bronzes by Italian Renaissance masters including Donatello are coming to New York for the first time for a show at the Frick Collection. The museum, led by Axel Ruger, is hosting the show dedicated to bronze sculpture from Siena later this year.