Austria: A survey of works by the Austrian fashion designer Helmut Lang, set to open this autumn at Vienna’s Museum für Angewandte Kunst, has been cancelled. The museum said the exhibition had been organised by former director Peter Noever, who resigned in January following allegations that he had mismanaged funds.

France: The Pompidou Centre in Paris will launch a mobile museum later this year that will travel to the provinces of France. The travelling structure, designed by Patrick Bouchain, will first visit Chaumont-en-Champagne in the north-east of the country. Works by Léger, Braque and Picasso are included in the opening show.

France: A UK entrepreneur who set up the world’s largest commodity hedge fund has opened a museum for his antiquities collection in Mougins, in the south of France. Christian Levett is showing about 700 ancient works in his Museum of Classical Art, which also houses pieces by modern and contemporary artists including Edgar Degas and Marc Quinn.

Italy: The Venice Biennale, the major contemporary art exhibition founded in 1895, opened last month with a record 89 national participants. Mike Nelson, Britain’s representative, reworked a piece originally built for the 2003 Istanbul Biennial, entitled Magazin: Büyük Valide Han.

Nelson has rebuilt a 17th-century Turkish caravanserai (roadside inn) inside the British pavilion. Meanwhile, members of the US Track and Field team interact with sculptures at the US pavilion in an installation by the Puerto Rico-based artist duo Allora and Calzadilla. The exhibition runs until 27 November. 

Russia: An exhibition of clothes designed by Christian Dior at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, which juxtaposes the French designer’s garments with works by artists such as Van Gogh and Malevich, has received a mixed critical response. One Russian art critic said the museum was “pretending to be a flagship boutique”. The exhibition closes on 24 July.

US: Volkswagen has announced a two-year, multimillion-dollar sponsorship package for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The car manufacturer will provide funding for an international contemporary art show at PS1 (the museum’s Long Island City branch), the acquisition of two works by Belgian artist Francis Alys, and a series of installations in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden.

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