Michael Rakowitz has spent his career recreating history so it's fitting he is now making it by becoming the first living artist to show his work at the Acropolis Museum.

The Athens institution is showing 14 antiquities alongside the same number of works from the Iraqi-American artist’s series "The invisible enemy should not exist" which aims to recreate each of the 7,000 artifacts destroyed or looted from Baghdad's National Museum of Iraq during and after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

The exhibition, called Allspice | Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures, runs to October 31 and is followed by another show which includes his copy of the Lamassu of Nineveh which was originally commissioned for London’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

It is made from empty cans of Iraqi date syrup and reconstructs the colossal winged bull with a human face that once stood in the ancient city of Nineveh. The original, dating from around 700 BCE, was destroyed in 2015 by ISIS along with many other artifacts in the Mosul Cultural Museum.

Gallerist Gavin Brown is a fixture in the art scene in Rome and New York but is now heading closer to home bringing a new show to a shopping mall in a permanently unfashionable corner of London.

He is showing a pair of video installations, Arthur Jafa's Love is the Message, The Message is Death, and Mark Leckey's Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, at Croydon's Whitgift Centre.

Brown, a partner in New York's Gladstone Gallery, runs his own space in Rome but grew up in Croydon and told the Financial Times he hoped the timing of the show in the summer holidays would mean "maybe some young people will come in".

Canadian artist Armand Vaillancourt has launched a campaign to save his landmark San Francisco brutalist fountain amid fears it could be demolished.

The 1971 work, made up of concrete tubes dotted with bridges and walkways, sits in the city's Embarcadero Plaza which is scheduled for a multi-million dollar revamp.

It was not included in the plans for the new-look plaza, but city officials say no decision on its future has been made yet.

But that has not stopped Vaillancourt, who is 95, getting his retaliation in first and pulling together a coalition of supporters from fans of modernist architecture and brutalism to local skateboarders.

Museums are often told to give the public what they want and in the case of the new V&A East Storehouse in London that seems to be this 1954 Cristobal Balenciaga evening dress.

The pink silk taffeta number tops the list of the most ordered objects in the museum's new service allowing the public to get up close to something that would otherwise be stashed away in the stores and rarely seen.

More than 1,000 orders have already come in from the public ahead of the museum's opening on Saturday with 14th-century ceramics and Julia Margaret Cameron photographs among the requests but Balenciaga reigns supreme - a fact probably not unrelated to the presence of hundreds of students next door at the London College of Fashion.

1 - London's Camden Art Centre has raised $2.5 million to secure a 99-year lease on its building which was due to expire in 2027. It has recently hosted exhibitions by artists including Allison Katz and Mohammed Sami as well as Jesse Darling who won the 2023 Turner Prize for his show there.

2 - Russian-born artist Vladimir Tretchikoff's 1955 work Lady from the Orient has just sold for $1.74 million at auction in South Africa - beating his previous auction record by 17%. Dubbed 'The King of Kitsch', his painting The Green Lady was one of the best-selling prints of the 20th century. See our story here.

3 - Former Goldman Sachs executive Andrew Wolff, who already has a controlling interest in online art marketplace Artsy, has agreed a $73.7 million deal to buy Artnet. The art market analysis and news site reportedly had losses of $2.15 million in 2023.