British museums are planning to keep their collections safe in the event of war using tactics dating back to the Blitz, according to one expert.

Vernon Rapley, a former police officer turned head of security at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, told the Times of London he used blueprints from the museum's own archives to draw up a plan.

London Underground tunnels, mines and quarries were used to hide masterpieces from the nation's museums during World War II when London was bombed and Rapley said there was "never any point in reinventing the wheel".

He said: "Although bombs might be slightly bigger and nastier, they’re fundamentally the same thing so we looked there for the methods that have been used."

It comes after Poland’s culture ministry set up a special department, headed by a former military intelligence officer, to prepare for the evacuation of artworks in the event of a Russian invasion based on their experience working with Ukraine.

Elvira Dyangani Ose is stepping down as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA) in April after its board said the job was incompatible with her running Abu Dhabi's Public Art Biennale.

Ose only announced she had been appointed to the Abu Dhabi job last month in an Instagram post where she said she would bring her "usual enthusiasm and energy" to both roles.

But El Pais reported the museum board argued the director's job required "exclusive dedication" and agreed she should leave before her term was due to end in July.

Ose previously worked at Tate Modern and the Showroom gallery in London and curated the 2014 Gothenburg Biennial of Contemporary Art.

The museum will reveal details of the search for her successor later this year.

The asking price for actress Tilda Swinton's former central London apartment which is currently up for sale. Alternatively you can pay $24.75 to see a recreation of it in an exhibition dedicated to the Oscar winner at Amsterdam's Eye Filmmuseum until March 15.

The New York Historical Society has announced a special exhibition after it was given more than 100 works by modern and contemporary indigenous American artists.

The gift from philanthropists Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang includes work by Kent Monkman and Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith and stretches from painting to sculpture, photography, ceramics and textiles.

House Made of Dawn: Art by Native Americans 1880 to Now, Selections from the Hsu-Tang Collection, will run from April 22 to August 2.

Hsu-Tang said the show was named after a novel by indigenous writer N. Scott Momaday that inspired her to take a road trip across the country while at college, adding she hoped the works would "inspire meaningful conversations on the occasion of our nation’s semiquincentennial".

Tributes have been paid to philanthropist Iris Cantor who died on Sunday aged 95 having given millions of dollars to museums across the US.

Brooklyn-born Cantor set up her family foundation with her late husband and funded dozens of traveling exhibitions of their collection of Auguste Rodin sculptures and gave work to institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Musee Rodin in Paris.

They also gave direct financial support to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum which director Anne Pasternak said was the beneficiary of Cantor's "lasting affection for the borough where her story began".

Pasternak added: "Growing up in Brooklyn and visiting the Brooklyn Museum was a formative and treasured experience-one that instilled in her a belief that great art should be accessible to all."

1 - Aaron Wile has joined New York's Frick Collection as its John Updike Curator - named after the writer who won acclaim for his Rabbit novels of US middle-class life. A former curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Wile previously worked at the Frick a decade ago where he organized a show of Jean-Antoine Watteau's paintings.

2 - Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan will represent Romania at this year's Venice Biennale. Their work, Black Seas-Scores for the Sonic Eye, is described as a "multi-layered audiovisual and sculptural installation" tracing the history of the sea and the major rivers that flow into it.

3 - The announcement of the winner of this year's $100,000 Pritzker Prize for architecture will be "delayed slightly" from its usual date in the first week of March, the New York Times reports. It comes after Tom Pritzker, the director of the foundation that awards the prize, resigned from his role with the family firm, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

4 - Lucia Sanroman and Aimee Harrison have been named co-curators of the 14th Liverpool Biennial which runs from June 5 to September 12 next year. Harrison is a veteran of the event, having been involved since 2019, and Sanroman is currently chief curator at Mexico City's Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC).

5 - Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos will be honorary chairs of this year's Met Gala in New York after previously being announced as its sponsors. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, led by Max Hollein, announced the news and confirmed the theme of the fundraiser would be Fashion is Art.