1 - Japanese painter Shigeo Otake is now represented by White Cube galleries.
They will show some of his new work at Art Basel Paris before his first solo UK exhibition at its Mason's Yard space in London in 2028.
2 - Mary Deleary has been appointed director of the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She starts on October 19 at the museum, run by the Institute of American Indian Arts, which is currently hosting a Dakota Mace show.
3 - The Lalique Museum in Wingen-sur-Moder, France, will reopen on November 28 after security work is completed following the $5 million theft there in July.
It took three masked men just 11 minutes to break into the building and steal 27 crystal pieces from the museum dedicated to designer Rene Lalique.
4 - Leon Botstein, the former president of New York’s Bard College, has resigned from his remaining positions at the arts school after his previously publicized links to convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein were raised by members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
It comes days after a protest outside the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) calling for the removal of billionaire Leon Black from its board over his ties to Epstein.
5 - The Obama Foundation in Chicago could be the next major U.S. cultural institution to unionize after staff announced a plan to organize.
The center, which is home to work by the likes of Theaster Gates and Lorna Simpson, would be following institutions including the Whitney and the Brooklyn Museum.
6 - Two paintings by Renoir stolen a month ago from a museum in the south of France have been recovered.
The works, taken from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, were found after authorities arrested six people in connection with the crime and are reportedly in good condition.