1 - Works by Vik Muniz, Helmut Newton and Mike Kelley are among the art going on show in a new private museum opening tomorrow in Moscow.
The Art Newspaper reported the museum, called Zilart, will be home to the collection of property developers Andrey and Yelizaveta Molchanov who also own a large amount of African art.
2 - A suspected jewel thief was arrested in Auckland, New Zealand, after being accused of swallowing a Faberge pendant worth more than $33,500.
Police were unable to supply a photo of the diamond and sapphire-covered gold jewelry as it "has not yet been recovered".
3 - A 71-year-old London lawyer, Joyanna Lovelock, has won $1,318 in a new UK writers' prize for a story inspired by the National Gallery.
Her story about a woman who finds a younger lover after the pair meet while looking at a J.M.W. Turner painting was described as "touching and tender" by the judges of the Nero New Writers Prize.
4 - Germany has set up a new court in Berlin to handle disputes over cultural property stolen during the Nazi era and issue legally binding decisions.
It comes as the country agreed to return 73 ancient documents to Poland that were looted during the Second World War.
5 - Previously unseen drawings, etchings and paintings by Lucian Freud will be on show at the National Portrait Gallery in London next year.
The exhibition will include childhood drawings, 48 sketchbooks, letters and unfinished paintings.
6 - Dozen of Japanese masterpieces from the British Museum in London will go back to Tokyo for a major new show next year.
Work by Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro will feature in Edo in Focus which runs from July 25 to October 18.
