A new museum dedicated to Frida Kahlo opens its doors for the first time tomorrow with her first ever oil painting among the items going on show.

The Museo Casa Kahlo in Mexico City is only a short walk from the existing Museo Frida Kahlo which has been open since the 1950s and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.

The new museum, also in the upmarket district of Coyoacán, will be run by family members and concentrate on her early life and how her upbringing influenced her art.

Among the exhibits will be her first ever oil painting, which she showed to her husband - and fellow artist - Diego Rivera to see if she had the talent to forge an artistic career as well as a piece of embroidery she made aged five and what is thought to be the only mural she ever created.

The new museum is housed in a building once owned by her parents which she later bought as a home for her sister Christina and her family.

Her relationship with her sister, and her photographer father Guillermo, will also be examined in the new museum.

The number of 35mm slides in the archive of Pop Artist and nun Corita Kent. More than 1,000 are included in the show Corita Kent: The Sorcery of Images which opens today at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles.

Marina Abramovic is currently in rehearsals along with more than 70 other performers ahead of the debut of her largest-ever performance work.

Balkan Erotic Epic, set to run at the Aviva Studios in Manchester, northwest England, from October 9th to 19th, draws on her Serbian heritage and the folklore of southeast Europe.

The cast, including dancers, musicians and singers, perform in 13 different scenes in a work she described as "the most ambitious work in my career".

She said: "This gives me a chance to go back to my Slavic roots and culture, look back to ancient rituals and deal with sexuality, in relation to the universe and the unanswered questions of our existence. Through this project I would like to show poetry, desperation, pain, hope, suffering, and reflect our own mortality."

FOOD is back on the menu after artist Lucien Smith opened a new version of the original restaurant that served as a second home for New York's art scene in the early 1970s.

The original was set up by artist Gordon Matta-Clark in SoHo in 1971 as a place to employ and feed his contemporaries with artists putting in shifts in the kitchen and front of house serving guests including Donald Judd and Philip Glass, before its founders quit after two years.

Smith's version is in Dimes Square and has replaced the original's low-rent aesthetic with a more glossy look, including furniture designed by Max Lamb.

It also has a more ambitious approach - Smith says if it is a success he plans to open branches in London, Paris and Milan.

The hunt is on for a new director of the New Museum after veteran Lisa Phillips announced she is stepping down after 26 years in charge of the New York institution.

She will step down in April after the museum opens the doors of its $82 million extension at its site on the Bowery, but stay on as Director Emeritus. She will also curate an exhibition about the cultural history of the Bowery to open next year.

A former curator at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art for 20 years, she has overseen a huge expansion of the New Museum including two major building projects, a rise in annual attendance from 45,000 to 450,000 visitors and helped manage more than 200 exhibitions of work by artists including William Kentridge, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Sarah Lucas and Theaster Gates.

The new director will only be the third in the job after Phillips took over from its founder Marcia Tucker.

1 - The film Peter Hujar's Day, starring Ben Whishaw as the acclaimed photographer, has its New York premiere tomorrow. Based on an interview Hujar gave to writer Linda Rosenkrantz, it is being screened at the New York Film Festival with a Q&A featuring director Ira Sachs, Whishaw, Rosenkrantz and Rebecca Hall who plays her in the film.

2 - A first edition of art collector Andre Level's early biography of Picasso, signed by the artist, sold at auction for $35,200. It was sold by Freeman’s | Hindman auction house as part of the sell-off of the library from Philadelphia's University of the Arts which closed last year with debts of $67 million.

3 - The family of photographer Billy Name, who spent years living and working alongside Andy Warhol in The Factory in New York, say they want to open a museum dedicated to his work if they win a legal case about his estate. A court case is due to start next week to decide if his surviving family or his agent, Dagon James, win control of the estate which includes thousands of images from his time with Warhol.

4 - Artist Cathie Pilkington's latest show is a site-specific installation inspired by Paula Fichtl who fled the Nazis with the Freud family and was their live-in housekeeper for more than 50 years. Housekeeper combines her own sculptures with antiquities belonging to Sigmund Freud and runs at the museum in his former home in London from October 29 to February 22.