1 - Relief all round at the Philadelphia Art Museum after a legal ruling its dispute with sacked director Sasha Suda will be settled by confidential arbitration.
Suda, who has been replaced in the top job by Daniel Weiss, had wanted her case to be heard in open court.
2 - Singapore's Peranakan Museum has been given $1.1 million to fund a curator of Peranakan art for five years.
Peranakan usually refers to someone born in Singapore but with roots elsewhere. The money, from the family of Malaysian businessman Tan Cheng Lock, is the first time the public museum has taken private money to fund a curatorial position.
3 - Former Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga will lead the country's new panel evaluating claims made over looted art.
The Commission for Historically Problematic Cultural Heritage starts work on March 1 and will examine cases from the Nazi period and before.
4 - Zippora Elders has been named artistic director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
Currently a senior curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, she will take over in Rotterdam on April 13.
5 - Hundreds of Spanish contemporary art galleries started a six-day strike today in protest at the
country’s 21% VAT rate for art sales.
The rate in neighboring countries such as Portugal and France is 6% and 5.5% respectively.