The price of the most expensive resold ticket on eBay for the Rijksmuseum's 2023 Vermeer exhibition according to a new book about the Amsterdam show. Closer to Vermeer: New Research on the Painter and his Art is published by Thames & Hudson.

Edouard Manet was found guilty of causing public outrage in a mock trial at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

The 19th-century painter was in the dock for his 1863 work Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe which caused a scandal with its casual female nudity and was rejected by the Paris Salon causing Manet to show it instead in the alternative Salon des Refuses.

Lawyers were on hand to argue the case as well as curator Isolde Pludermacher and student speakers who stood in for the artist, his model Victorine Meurent and novelist Emile Zola who defended the painting at the time as Manet's greatest work.

Customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle an old master religious painting across the Ukrainian-Polish border.

Border guards in the Ukrainian city of Lviv found the painting by Swiss artist Andreas Asper, valued at around $25,000, when they stopped a car.

The painting depicts a scene from the Gospels and was authenticated by experts from the city's National Museum.

1 - Aimee Ng has been appointed as Chief Curator of the Frick Collection in New York. She replaces Xavier Salomon who is now Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.

2 - Four decades of art activism by the feminist collective, Guerrilla Girls, is going on display in a new show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in November. How to Be a Guerrilla Girl also includes a new work that uses comic strip style speech bubbles to give voice to some of the anonymous women in the museum"s collection.

3 - Tate Director Maria Balshaw says its new online education project will make its collection "accessible in the classroom as well as in our galleries". Tate Schools is free for use by teachers and pupils and has been funded by former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's Philanthropies’ Digital Accelerator for Arts and Culture.

4 - The founder of Japanese art collective teamLab, Toshiyuki Inoko, opened their new museum in Kyoto today. Their immersive digital art on a grand scale has been a huge commercial success with sites in Abu Dhabi and Singapore while tickets for Kyoto's first week sold out before the opening day.

5 - Evelyn Lin is returning to Sotheby’s as chairman of Modern and contemporary art, Asia, after a year working at Pace Gallery. She will be based in Hong Kong for the auction house and her appointment comes after Pace announced it was closing its space in the city later this month.

6 - Artist Odili Donald Odita is suing Jack Shainman gallery saying it has "withheld" work worth $1.12 million from him. A spokesman for the New York gallery, that represents him, said it "disputes all claims made by Odita" and will respond in full in filings to the city's Supreme Court.