Creative Australia has ended up back where it started after five months of farce by reinstating artistic duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino to represent the country at next year's Venice Biennale.

The pair were appointed in February only to be dropped six days later after politicians raised concerns about some of Sabsabi's early work featuring images of a Hezbollah leader and the September 11 attacks.

The Lebanese-Australian artist rejected accusations his work promotes antisemitism or terrorism and is now officially back in favor.

Today's decision was accompanied by the publication of a review into what went wrong, which perhaps unsurprisingly found "no single reason, cause, person or act" to blame for the whole sorry mess.

Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak has withdrawn plans to sack around 15 staff members after a $2.5 million injection of funds from the New York City Council.

The initial plan to cut around 47 staff sparked protests by unions and pressure from local politicians, but some workers did lose their jobs before the money was found in the city's annual budget.

The council said the money was intended to "maintain current staffing levels, develop a robust philanthropic pipeline, and create a sustainable plan for the future".

The museum previously warned its deficit could reach $10 million by summer, when it announced the initial plans to cut jobs.

Founded in 1823, it is the second largest museum in New York city and its collection of around half a million objects includes work by artists including Mark Rothko, Judy Chicago and Max Weber.

The number of rooms opening to the public today at Brazil's National Museum in Rio de Janeiro which has been closed for seven years since a devastating fire destroyed much of the building and its collection.

The future of President Trump's planned American Heroes sculpture garden is in the balance after its $40 million budget was rolled into his controversial "Big Beautiful Bill'.

The bill was narrowly passed in the Senate, but now goes back to the House with the White House giving politicians a July 4 deadline to send the President a version he can sign into law.

That would provide the money "for the procurement of statues” in the planned garden which was first announced in 2021 and is intended to be a centerpiece of next year's celebrations of the 250th anniversary of American independence.

The President previously described the garden as a "new monument to our country’s greatness" with Aretha Franklin, Walt Whitman and Walt Disney among the names to be recognized with statues.

1 - Tributes have been paid to US attorney and real estate developer Frederick M. Nicholas who has died aged 105 and was dubbed "Mr Downtown Culture" for his work helping transform the arts scene in Los Angeles. Nicholas chaired the Museum of Contemporary Art and led negotiations with Italian collector Giuseppe Panza to buy around 80 works which now form the core of its collection.

2 - The organizers of a new triennial hope to attract 50,000 visitors to a village in New York State that is home to 6,000 people. The Medina Triennial will invite artists to create around 50 works at about a dozen different places in the village between June and September this year.

3 - The owners of the Hauser & Wirth galleries, Iwan and Manuela Wirth, have moved their permanent residence from the UK to Switzerland. They told the Financial Times the relocation was due to "personal reasons", but it comes amid rising numbers of the ultra-wealthy leaving the country after changes to tax law.