1 - It never rains but it pours, quite literally, for the beleaguered head of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, after it emerged hundreds of historic books and documents were damaged or destroyed by a water leak.
It happened when pipes broke in the ceiling of the Egyptian Antiquities library in the Paris museum on November 27.
2 - Hew Locke has been commissioned to make a model of the Speedwell - the ship that carried the Pilgrim Fathers from Holland to England at the start of their journey to America on the Mayflower.
It will go on show in August at Rotterdam's Fenix Museum only a few miles from where they set out to sea in 1620.
3 - Cecilia Vicuna was declared an "icon artist" at the first-ever Art Basel Awards in Miami Beach.
The event, hosted by rapper and art collector Swizz Beatz, recognized 11 winners including Candice Hopkins, who won the curator category, and Saodat Ismailova and Mohammad Alfaraj who were named emerging artist winners.
4 - The 50th anniversary of the death of painter L.S. Lowry is being marked by a new BBC documentary.
The show, due to be broadcast in February, is based on a series of previously unheard interviews recorded at his home in Manchester in the north of England in the last four years of his life.
5 - Yale University has moved its Claes Oldenburg sculpture Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks after discovering it had been vandalized.
The work will go on show in the New Haven university's art gallery sculpture garden from March after staff discovered letters had been scratched into its surface.
6 - German art collector Ingvild Goetz has opened a temporary exhibition space in a Munich shopping center with a show curated by Elmgreen & Dragset.
It also includes work by Richard Prince, Tom Sachs, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel.