1 - It is a Tale of Two Cities when it comes to arts funding in New York and Philadelphia.
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the city's Department of Cultural Affairs will get $323.8 million in next year's budget - up from the record $299.6 million agreed last year while Philadelphia's Mural Arts program is being cut by $1.4 million and its Cultural Fund is losing $1.5 million in the city budget.
2 - Australian philanthropist and property magnate Isaac Wakil has died aged 104.
The Baghdad-born Holocaust survivor supported Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales for more than 50 years and gave $16.5 million in 2017 to kickstart its $237 million project to build its Naala Badu building which opened in 2023.
3 - Around 180 galleries from 35 countries are expected to take part in this year's Artissima art fair in Turin.
Led by artistic director Luigi Fassi, it opens with a preview on October 29 and then runs to November 1.
4 - Five people have been sentenced for their part in stealing 11 paintings by Bernard Buffet during a burglary in southwest France.
Le Figaro newspaper reported the gang were arrested in Marseille while trying to sell the pictures which were valued at $815,736.
5 - The owners of a $170,000 painting by Joaquin Sorolla have been reunited with the work after accidentally leaving it in a Seville street.
The anonymous family intended to take it with them on holiday but drove off without it and then launched a poster campaign to track it down when they realized what they had done. Their plea was answered when a visitor to the city got in touch to say he had mistaken it for junk and only picked it up because he liked the frame.
6 - Four sculptures by Bharti Kher will be unveiled at the V&A museum in London's South Kensington on July 20.
The works, which will go on show in the Hintze Sculpture Galleries, include a monumental new work, Gaia, depicting a female warrior carrying a house on her head.