Things go from bad to worse for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery - last month it lost its director and now it has lost a planned show by Amy Sherald.

Both are victims of the pressure being put on it by the Trump administration. Sherald, who made her name with her 2018 Michelle Obama portrait, has withdrawn her scheduled solo show because she said she was told the museum wanted to remove her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty and replace it with a video discussing the work.

In a letter to Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch seen by the New York Times, she questioned whether the museum was still committed to "presenting work that reflects the full, complex truth of American life”.

She said: "It’s clear that institutional fear shaped by a broader climate of political hostility toward trans lives played a role."

A Smithsonian spokesperson said the video would have accompanied the work and not replaced it, adding it was "disappointed" audiences would not be able to see the show, but a White House official said the “removal of this exhibit is a principled and necessary step” by the Smithsonian.

It is the latest blow to the gallery after President Trump announced in May he had fired director, Kim Sajet, describing her as “a strong supporter of D.E.I.”. That led to a stand-off with the Smithsonian saying only it could hire and fire staff but Sajet resigned in June.

A new report into Berlin's under-construction modern art museum says its spiraling costs have "a high risk potential" - which in the understated language of bureaucrats the world over is an admission it could be a disaster.

The verdict comes in a report from the office of culture minister Wolfram Weimer to the Bundestag's Budget Committee which traces the growth of the eventual bill from an original $234 million to its current estimate of $617 million.

It also warns the eventual cost of the Herzog and de Meuron-designed building, currently due to open a year later than planned in 2028, will be "successively updated" and may rise further.

When it does open behind Potsdamer Platz in the German capital, it will be home to more than 5,000 works by figures from Joseph Beuys and Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richter.

The number of individual pieces of an ancient Korean wooden shrine repatriated from Japan over six months. The building, made up of 401 pieces of stone and ironwork, 3,457 roof tiles and 1,124 bits of wood will eventually be restored and re-built.

And then there were five - Johanna Burton has become the fifth director to leave the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles in 17 years.

She is leaving in October to become director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where she will have a $6 million budget and no permanent collection as opposed to MOCA's $25 million budget and 8,000 strong collection.

Her time in charge saw the museum team up with its neighbors at the Hammer and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to launch a joint collection of contemporary LA art.

She will stay in position to see the launch of a new show, Monuments, featuring decommissioned Confederate statues alongside contemporary works - an exhibition some fear may bring criticism from the Trump administration which has condemned the removal of controversial monuments.

The museum has previously also been criticized by artists for its lack of diversity, while in 2008 its finances were in such a state it needed a $30 million bailout from businessman and philanthropist Eli Broad.

In 2013, it nearly disappeared for good only for a proposed merger with LACMA to fall through and in 2018 it lost its director Philippe Vergne, whose contract was not renewed, not long after its chief curator Helen Molesworth left abruptly.

London's Tate Modern is extending its opening hours in a bid to cash in on its popularity with young visitors.

The gallery, on the banks of the river Thames, currently closes at 6pm but from September 26 will stay open to 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

The museum, run by director Maria Balshaw, said it made the move after "record number of young visitors" came to its 25th birthday weekend. That event attracted more than 76,000 people to the gallery in three days with 70% of them under 35.

The largest ever indoor exhibition by UK land artist Andy Goldsworthy opens in the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh tomorrow and the critics agree it is a triumph.

Goldsworthy is best known for his large outdoor site-specific installations - some permanent but many photographed for posterity before they disappear back into nature.

The new show gathers more than 200 works including drawings, photographs, films and sketchbooks as well as installations including a screen of rusting barbed wire and a series of abstract watercolors with paint made from mixing snow with hare's blood.

Handing out a five-star review in the Guardian, Jonathan Jones dubs Goldsworthy a "peasant dadaist' saying the work succeeds in "plunging today’s urbanites into the raw sadness and beauty, the violence and slow natural cycles of the British countryside".

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Alastair Sooke describes the work as "beautiful and raw" and the man himself as "ceaselessly inventive" and "capable of evoking difficulty as much as delicate beauty".

Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years is at the Royal Scottish Academy from July 26 to November 2.

1 - Banksy's Venice mural, Bambino Migrante, has been removed from the wall of a palazzo for restoration. The work, depicting a shipwrecked child in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, was in place from 2019 and has been eroded by humidity and water damage.

2 - The studio home of designers Charles and Ray Eames is open to the public after a successful restoration project. Case Study House #8 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles was spared from the wildfires that devastated the city after a fortunate decision in 2024 to remove hundreds of trees surrounding it.

3 - A digital artwork inspired by a goal scored by Argentinian soccer player Lionel Messi sold at auction for $1.87 million. Refik Anadol's A Goal in Life was based on Messi's header which put Barcelona 2-0 up against Manchester United in the 2009 Champions League final.