The organizers of an Australian art prize say they are reviewing how it is run after a previous winner was accused of copying another painter's work.

Jane Allen was awarded $13,700 by the Doyles Art Award last year for her work Seaside Explorers.

She said it showed her and her brother as children, but now faces claims it is a copy of Nicholas Harding’s Two Estuary Figures.

The award committee told the Sydney Morning Herald it was looking at bringing in "a range of changes" to the annual competition, adding "there are questions around how this happened" and "how no one noticed for a full year and more".

It has also sparked an investigation into another of her works which won the National Portrait Gallery’s Darling Portrait Prize in 2022, but is now claimed to "bear striking similarities" to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 piece Untitled (Two Heads on Gold).

Allen is yet to comment.

The amount of money Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said he will spend on the arts in the next fiscal year. The funding, which is his entire discretionary budget, will be shared between institutions including New York's El Museo del Barrio and the International Center of Photography in what he said would be "a boost of morale for the sector".

The under-pressure head of London's Southbank arts center said he will step down this year but insisted his decision had nothing to do with recent criticism of his social media campaigning.

Misan Harriman, who has been chair of the center since 2021, said he will leave the job in the autumn, saying on Instagram the decision was made "way before this madness".

The photographer, who made his name covering Black Lives Matter protests, was criticized in the UK press which said he shared a social media post containing an anti-semitic conspiracy theory after an attack in a Jewish neighborhood of London.

An open letter in his support, signed by Greta Thunberg and Tracey Emin among others, said he had been the victim of a "smear campaign".

The center's Hayward Gallery is currently hosting an Anish Kapoor exhibition with a Nan Goldin show opening in November.

Early designs for the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and Washington DC's National Gallery of Art East Building are among the archive of architect I.M. Pei which has been given to the museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Chinese-born Pei, who died in New York in 2019 aged 102, studied at MIT and returned to its campus near Boston to design four of its buildings.

His archive includes around 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, 50 architectural models, and 1,000-feet of manuscripts spanning more than 60 projects across Pei’s decades-long career.

The museum plans what it describes as "a robust program of collaborative teaching, research, exhibition, and public engagement" which his son, Li Chung Pei, said would ensure "future scholars, students, and architects will be able to explore the full scope of my father’s work".

1 - A new site-specific installation by Rana Begum will go on show in Houston's Ismaili Center later this year. A spokesperson for the Texan institution said the 20-foot-high work, No. 1573 Reflectors (2025−26), created an "experiential encounter through light, perception, and atmosphere".

2 - San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum has fired long-time curator Andrew Farago after he was arrested and accused of secretly recording guests in the bathroom of his house. The San Francisco Chronicle reported he had not been charged as of Tuesday but had issued a public apology for what he described as "an inexcusable violation" and "tremendous lapse in judgment".

3 - Jakob Kudsk Steensen is among the artists taking part in a 10-day festival of art and technology in the Finnish city of Oulu this November. He will use video game technology to transform the city’s underground car park into a virtual replica of its botanical garden.

4 - Art critic Jerry Saltz and artists Carroll Dunham and Nan Goldin are among hundreds of people who signed an open letter asking New York mayor Zohran Mamdani to ban AI education technology from the city's public schools. The letter describes the technology as an "inequity machine" based on the "theft" of work by the "countless creatives who made New York the world’s capital of art and culture".

5 - Italy's culture ministry has set aside $1.6 million specifically for cultural projects in small towns with a population under 25,000 people. It said the money would pay for projects that promote "more equitable access to cultural activities".