The former chief operating officer of Atlanta's High Museum of Art has been sentenced to a year in prison after embezzling more than $600,000 from the museum.

Brady Lum pleaded guilty with a court hearing he spent some of the money on high-end guitars, music lessons and woodworking equipment before his crime was discovered.

U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said his "appalling breach of trust damaged not only the High Museum but also the larger art community."

Lum paid $607,688 back to the museum and also paid another $500,000 to cover the cost of its investigation into him.

The high estimate for Amedeo Modigliani’s sculpture Tete which is going under the hammer at Phillips in New York this month making it the highest value sculpture to ever be sold by the auction house.

Around 400 Frida Kahlo works will go on show next year at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo.

The show, announced today, will run between June and November as part of its 2027 programme marking five years since the museum opened.

It will also include clothing, jewelry, books and works by other Mexican artists and is being organized in collaboration with Mexico City's Museo Frida Kahlo.

Other shows slated for 2027 include an exhibition of art inspired by the fascination with mysticism and spiritualism in the country in the 19th century with works by Georgiana Houghton and Margaret Watts Hughes included.

1 - The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles is one of 12 institutions sharing $212,000 in grants from the Jan and Marica Vilcek's foundation rewarding organisations highlighting the contribution of immigrants to the United States. The museum made headlines earlier this year when Star Trek actor George Takei pledged to donate his entire estate, valued at around $21 million, to it.

2 - Mercedes Azpilicueta, Nolan Oswald Dennis and Kosen Ohtsubo are among a further 13 artists announced today as taking part in next year's Munster Sculpture Project. The exhibition returns to the German city every 10 years and the next edition, which runs from June 13 to October 3, marks 50 years since its foundation by Kasper Konig.

3 - National pavilions including the UK, Japan, Canada and Korea were hit by a staff walkout at the Venice Biennale. They were among around 20 pavilions either fully or partially closed when gallery workers went on strike on Friday.

4 - Painter Mick Rooney, whose work was collected by Paul McCartney and filmmaker Michael Mann, has died aged 82. His obituary in the Daily Telegraph said the "formidably erudite" artist was head of painting at the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1991 to 1995.

5 - Disorientation is the driving force behind a new exhibition at London's Flatmates 37 gallery between November 20 and December 22. Jason Wee is among the eight artists showing work after being "invited to think of and be inspired by moments of dizziness".

6 - Art collectors Cristina Chacon and Diego Uribe are opening a contemporary art space called DC Lab in Miami later this month with a show of Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa. It will host galleries that do not have permanent spaces in the city and is an expansion of their nonprofit DC Art Foundation.