The widow of Hermann Nitsch kept the blood, gore and fruit flowing at Schloss Prinzendorf this summer.

In June, the final acts of the late Actionist artist's epic, 6-Day-Play, were re-staged at the former monastery in Austria he acquired in the 1970s for his art rituals and restored with Rita Nitsch's help.

The spectacles involve a big cast, mostly clad in white and a few wearing nothing at all, who end up covered in the blood and body parts of a slaughtered bull among other animals.

The artist Göksu Kunak has written an account of this year's ceremony for Artforum, declaring it reduced them to tears—of joy.

Included is a snippet about Nitsch’s participants back in the day. A 20-something Marina Abramović was present at rehearsals for the piece in the 1970s, according to the director of the Hermann Nitsch Foundation, Gudrun Marecek.

Missing in action this year was a protest by animal-rights campaigners who have long objected to the slaughter involved in the artist's ceremonies. Brigitte Bardot called them "satanic". He was indeed charged with blasphemy early in his career.

A planned Nitsch solo show at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City was canceled after an outcry in 2015.

The number of years the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been working on "Raphael: Sublime Poetry", an exhibition full of international loans that is due to open in March next year.

There have been many versions of New Yorker magazine’s dandy “Eustace Tilley” but none can compare to Cindy Sherman’s.

For a start, she has created the first photographic portrait to grace its cover. And she has done so in her inimitable way, posing as Eustace.

The magazine decided to break with its traditional drawing on the cover for a special centenary issue devoted to the cultural industries.

Sherman revealed that emulating the dandy first drawn by Rea Irvin to launch the magazine in 1925 was a bigger challenge than she anticipated.

“I tried many things—found the hat but then the jackets didn’t go with it,” she said. The outfit she finally chose came from a Salvation Army thrift store many years ago, which she has kept for just the right photo shoot.

She added that she intended to make the dandy's nose with prosthetics but happened to find just the right one in her nose collection.

It's not the first time a museum has been caught up in the tangled web of paintings attributed to Kasimir Malevich that experts doubt.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest may have joined a club it wishes it hadn't as it distances itself from paintings it has borrowed from an owner who insists they are the real deal.

According to Yaniv Cohen, a Bucharest-based Israeli businessman, he discovered the three previously unknown paintings under the mattress of his wife’s late grandmother. She had inherited the paintings from her father and took them with her when she immigrated to Israel from Ukraine.

Cohen points to the opinion of the Kyiv-based art historian Dmytro Horbachov, who described them as "first-class examples" of Malevich's style, although in the past he has given the thumbs up to a “Malevich” painting reportedly removed from Vienna's Albertina Museum when it had doubts.

Konstantin Akinsha, a Ukrainian-American scholar, is skeptical of the new discoveries. He told the BBC that the Bucharest paintings were not “documented, photographed, or shown during the artist's lifetime". The institution has declined to say whether it believes they are, in fact, genuine.

1 - Veteran Los Angeles-based artist Mary Corse will be honored at the LACMA Art+Film fundraising gala in November.

2 - Enter Art Fair, the Nordic region’s largest fair, opens in Copenhagen to VIP collectors tomorrow (until August 31), along with a temporary sculpture park at the city’s former railway workshops.

3 - Art students at the University of Damascus have been banned from using nude models by the dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts. The move has sparked an outcry over the growing influence of moral conservatives in Syria.