Anyone familiar with Italian democracy will not be surprised there is an X account dedicated to "Crazy Ass Moments in Italian Politics."

We are in the middle of one such moment now after the county's culture minister launched an investigation into allegations an angel in a church in Rome has been restored to look like prime minister Giorgia Meloni.

It was first reported by La Repubblica newspaper which noted what had been "a generic cherub" now had "a familiar, astonishingly contemporary face" after work carried out to repair water damage.

The culture ministry said "technical officials" had been dispatched to "ascertain the nature of the intervention" at the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina where painter Nicolas Poussin is buried.

Meloni herself does not seem too upset. She posted an image of the painting on Instagram, with the caption: “No, I definitely don’t look like an angel.”

Fourteen artworks by Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been donated to museums in Paris by the couple's foundation.

Among the recipients is the Musee Carnavalet which has been given a collage for an unrealized project to wrap a series of buildings in the city.

It has also been given a screenprint of their Wall of Oil Barrels - The Iron Curtain from when they blocked a narrow Parisian street for eight hours in response to the construction of the Berlin Wall.

The couple, who met in Paris and lived there for several years, found fame for their large-scale installations using huge swaths of fabric to wrap landmarks including the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont-Neuf in Paris.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was "delighted by this exceptional gift".

She said: "The people of Paris have not forgotten what these two artists gave to their city in 1985 when they wrapped the Pont-Neuf. It was a gesture of radical simplicity, whose brilliance continues to amaze us."

The size of the anonymous gift helping fund construction of San Francisco's first ever affordable housing for artists. The 17-story building on the city's Market Street will provide 94 homes.

Manuel Rabate is taking over as director of India's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art after a decade in charge at Louvre Abu Dhabi.

The Delhi museum is currently in the middle of developing a new David Adjaye-designed building in the Indian capital set to span more than one million square feet and described as "a multidisciplinary institution for visual and performing arts".

Rabate, who will start work in spring, said he was joining at "a pivotal moment" for the institution which he described as "defining what a 21st-century museum can be".

It was founded 16 years ago by billionaire philanthropist Kiran Nadar and has a collection of work from artists including M.F. Husain, Anish Kapoor and Sayed Haider Raza.

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.