The owner of the world's largest private Rembrandt collection says he is considering selling shares in it on the stock market.

Billionaire Thomas S. Kaplan told The Art Newspaper he was looking at the future of his Leiden Collection of Dutch Golden Age painting which includes Rembrandt’s Minerva in her Study among more than 200 works.

The New York-based businessman said: "There's so much money sloshing around that will need a home and this is a great value proposition."

He added that giving "maybe tens of millions of ordinary people the opportunity to own a Rembrandt" was a great way to promote the works.

The collection includes work by Vermeer, Gerrit Dou, Jan Lievens, and Jan Steen and has previously been on show at the Louvre in Paris, the State Hermitage in St Petersburg and the Long Museum in Shanghai.

The number of images in the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Library which forms the basis of its current exhibition Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography which is on until June 21 next year. The collection was established by curator Iris Barry who began collecting publicity stills for the New York museum in 1935.

Almost $30,000 has been raised by a crowdfunder to repair the damage caused when fire ripped through a group of buildings housing artists' studios in Brooklyn, New York.

The campaign is being led by Alicia Degener who is president of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition which was based in the warehouses in Red Hook.

She said the fundraiser, which aims to raise $100,000, would help "rebuild and support our artists affected by this devastating fire".

The coalition also said it had received some "encouraging news" about one of the buildings which has been "cleared by the building inspectors and is structurally sound", but is still waiting to hear about another building damaged in last Wednesday's blaze.

A statement said: "While we remain hopeful that the damage is salvageable, we won’t know for certain until we are able to safely access the galleries."

The exhibition of work by the Turner Prize finalists opens this week in Bradford ahead of this year's winner being announced.

The show, featuring the shortlist of Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa, opens at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in northern England on Saturday.

Kalu, a sculptor who is almost entirely non-verbal, has already been tipped as favorite to win by the Guardian newspaper.

The winner of the $33,000 prize - the UK's most prestigious contemporary art award - is announced on December 9. Previous winners include Steve McQueen, Helen Marten and Wolfgang Tillmans.

The free exhibition runs to February 22 next year.

Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang has apologized after staging a giant fireworks display in the Himalayan mountains that are sacred to the people of Tibet.

The display, which was supposed to represent a colorful dragon, was commissioned by Canadian mountain sportswear company Arc’teryx which also apologized, saying "We sincerely accept all criticism and suggestions."

New York-based Cai, who was director of visual and special effects at the 2008 Summer Olympics and created firework shows for its opening and closing ceremonies, said: "My studio and I attach great importance to this matter and, with a sense of reverence, humbly accept all criticisms regarding the implementation of artistic creation on the snowy plateau."

This striking portrait of a young David Hockney features alongside images of other artists including Henry Moore, Paula Rego and Francis Bacon in a new exhibition dedicated to photographer Jane Bown.

Bown, who worked for decades on the UK's Observer newspaper, was known for her stark black and white portraits of famous figures from the world of art and beyond.

Her images of the artists are on show along with other portraits in Jane Bown: Play Shadow at Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, in the southern England.

The show, which exhibits her portraits alongside work by the pictured artists, opens on November 1 and runs to February 15.

1 - The Wolfgang Tillmans retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris ended yesterday as the arts complex closed its doors until 2030. The building, designed by architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, will undergo a $590 million five-year renovation before re-opening.

2 - The co-curators of the Sixties Surreal show at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, Laura Phipps and Dan Nadel, compiled a 100-track playlist to accompany the exhibition that opens tomorrow. The show features work by artists including Diane Arbus, Mel Casas, Yayoi Kusama and Louise Bourgeois and runs to January 19 with a soundtrack ranging from Alice Coltrane to Frank Zappa.

3 - Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni has welcomed the return of 86 antiquities to the country from a foreign private collector. She said she hoped the return of the items, including marble and bronze figurines, ceramics, tombstones and pottery, would encourage other collectors to "follow this example".

4 - Around 70 paintings and drawings feature in a new Jean-Michel Basquiat show opening in Seoul today. Signs: Connecting Past and Future is at Design Plaza and visitors can also see 155 pages from his personal notebooks.

5 - The original art work for David Bowie's Aladdin Sane album is expected to fetch $405,000 at auction. The image, taken by the photographer Brian Duffy, will be auctioned by Bonhams in London later this year.