Jeff Koons's 37-foot-tall living sculpture Split-Rocker has a new home on Wilshire Boulevard outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's (LACMA) David Geffen Galleries.

The work, which previously towered over visitors at locations from the Château de Versailles outside Paris to New York's Rockefeller Center, is made of plants supported by an internal irrigation system so it changes as they flower and grow.

It was given to the museum by the Foundation of trustee Lynda Resnick and her husband, Stewart, who will also pay for its future upkeep. They previously led the expansion of the museum with its Renzo Piano-designed Resnick Pavilion in 2010 and have donated other works of art.

The floral sculpture, inspired by his children's toys, takes its shape from one-half of a cartoon-like pony’s head and one-half of a similarly simplified dinosaur’s head combined into a single piece.

The Geffen Galleries, designed by architect Peter Zumthor and financed by entertainment mogul David Geffen, are due to open next April.

Manhattan's Elizabeth Street Garden has been saved from developers after a legal battle that argued the New York green space should be protected as "a single unified sculptural work of visual art".

Supporters including musician Patti Smith and artist Dustin Yellin backed the campaign to save the one-acre sculpture garden which includes works from the collection of the late art dealer Allan Reiver who owned the nearby Elizabeth Street Gallery.

The proposed demolition of the green space to be replaced by affordable housing has now been stopped with city politicians admitting defeat and instead putting forward a plan for new homes on a different site.

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, whose works stands everywhere from the Vatican to the United Nations in New York, has died aged 98.

His trademark spheres contrasted their smooth exteriors with ripped out, jagged interiors suggestive of more complex realities beneath polished surfaces.

Pomodoro taught in California in the 1960s and one of his works can be seen at the entrance of his former employers, the University of California in Berkeley.

London's National Gallery is hosting a major show of almost 50 works by 17th-century Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán next year.

As well as treasures from the gallery's own collection, it will include work on loan from the Louvre in Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago - both of which will host the show after it leaves London.

It will also include a small selection of still-lives by his son, Juan, whose potential was cut short by his early death aged 29.

1 - UK sculptor Hew Locke said he is "disappointed" after the Belgian city of Ostend canceled plans for his project to "re-contextualise their statue of King Leopold II". Writing on Instagram, Locke said the council complained of a lack of "public consultation" about his plan for the statue of the monarch whose brutal reign over the Congo Free State is estimated to have cost the lives of millions of people.

2 - A huge 16-metre-tall sculpture created by Mario Ceroli to mark the Italia '90 World Cup has collapsed. The work, called Goal, was put up in the Flaminio district of Rome to celebrate the tournament which was won by West Germany.

3 - Yinka Shonibare has joined architect Norman Foster to work on a planned memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in London's St James's Park. The final plans are still to be announced but will include a statue of the Queen on horseback, one showing her with her husband Prince Philip, and a wind sculpture as well as audio installations featuring her voice.