It is every curator's worst nightmare - a show about to open and key works still not on display but one Italian museum is ignoring its deadlines and leaving some exhibits still in their packing crates.

The Museum of Archaeology at the University of Pavia has just opened a temporary show after a two-year closure for restoration work and wants visitors to glimpse what it looked like while the doors were closed.

Some exhibits are on display and others will be brought out of their boxes as the show goes on, with museum director Elena Calandra saying: "Not all the display cases are open: some will reveal their contents in the future, because a museum thrives only if it transforms itself and, through these changes, is able to attract and engage visitors."

The museum will launch a new permanent exhibition next year after the restoration work is finished.

The number of Kiki Smith prints donated to the New York Public Library by her sister and fellow artist Seton Smith. Kiki has always given one impression of any print she makes to her sister and the pair have pledged to donate any future works to the library as well.

Tributes have been paid to French designer Olivier Mourgue who has died aged 87.

Mourgue, who also worked as a painter and sculptor, trained at the Sorbonne in Paris and was best known for his futuristic furniture.

His trademark Djinn armchairs were used by Stanley Kubrick to fill the lobby of a futuristic hotel orbiting the moon in his science-fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The Guardian newspaper described them as looking "entirely at home in a plausible version of 2001 that did not yet exist", adding that almost six decades on from the 1968 film they still look "like a version of the future".

Several of his designs are currently on show in the Home of the Future exhibition at LACMA in Los Angeles.

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2 - Artist Diana Nicolaie has been appointed CEO of the Art Safari New Museum in Bucharest, Romania. She replaces Ioana Ciocan, who has become the country's new minister of culture, as the head of the museum which has attracted more than 1 million visitors in the last decade.

3 - Brazilian artist Anna Bella Geiger has won the $112,000 Velazquez Prize for Visual Arts granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. The jury praised the "constant experimental approach" of her work which spans drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture, collage and video art.

4 - The UK government has announced Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham have been shortlisted to become the 2029 City of Culture. The most recent winner of the competition was Bradford last year which hosted several exhibitions devoted to its most famous artistic son David Hockney.

5 - A $61 million pavilion opens today at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec to hold works by the Canadian province's most famous Modern artist: Jean Paul Riopelle. The building is named after Riopelle and philanthropist Michael Audain who helped set up the artist's foundation after his death in 2002.