Canada's Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria will start to re-open its First Peoples galleries this year - five years after closing them amid reports of racism.

Its new CEO Ry Moran, the fourth person to hold the top job at the troubled museum since 2021, told CBC News there would be "a phased" re-opening.

He said: "That is actually broadly consistent with a sort of a global movement of resetting respectful relationships with Indigenous peoples — to ensure that, you know, those stories are told in a way that is accurate."

The museum near Vancouver, which could potentially repatriate up to 60 exhibits, closed the galleries after a 2021 report found indigenous staff had been discriminated against.

Its wider future is still uncertain following the 2022 decision to suspend a planned $576 million rebuild of the museum.

Five monumental Anselm Kiefer paintings will stay on show at St Louis Art Museum despite a major exhibition of his work coming to an end.

The German artist agreed the works, which are between 27 and 31-feet-tall, can stay on view in the museum's Sculpture Hall to Spring 2027.

Around 150,000 people saw them during the official run of the show, Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea, which closed on Sunday.

Two of the paintings were inspired by a trip up the Mississippi River made by Kiefer during a visit to the city in 1991 to install a show at the museum, known to locals as SLAM.

Its director Min Jung Kim said the show "deeply resonated" with visitors and Kiefer agreed "the extension was important to allow more St. Louisans and more visitors to our community to enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime, immersive art experience.”

The weight of Austrian sculptor Gottfried Bechtold’s Concrete Porsche - a perfect replica of a Porsche 911 car - which will be unveiled in the sculpture garden of the Heidi Horten Collection in Vienna on April 29.

London's Courtauld Institute is opening two contemporary art galleries after receiving a $13.7 million donation to cover the costs.

The money from Leonard and Emily Blavatnik will be used to transform an 18th century room in its historic Somerset House base into the galleries which are expected to open in 2029 as part of a wider transformation of its campus.

Courtauld director Mark Hallett said the new galleries would allow visitors to "enjoy the most exciting art of today alongside our extraordinary array of historic masterpieces.”

They will also be used "for experimentation and collective learning" by students on the Courtauld's curating course who will help program shows for the space.

1 - Hundreds of drawings as well as letters and poems by Jewish artist Peter Kien are going on show at London's Wiener Holocaust Library. They were hidden in the Theresienstadt ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia shortly before Kien was transported to Auschwitz where he was killed.

2 - The Seo Seoul Museum of Art is set to open in South Korea in March - five months after its original opening date. Work started on the museum, the newest of eight branches of Seoul's Museum of Art, 10 years ago but it was held up by construction problems.

3 - Around 100 works from the Tate's collection are going on show in a William Blake exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy also features work from contemporaries including J.M.W. Turner and Henry Fuseli and was previously seen at museums in Turin and Budapest.

4 - An investigation is underway after a 36-foot-tall Jaume Plensa stainless steel sculpture collapsed outside the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. No one was hurt when the work toppled over, but museum director Joseph Becherer said they did not know what caused it.