1 - Artists have been left scrambling to salvage their work after a fire in a studio building in Long Island City, Queens.
Linda Ganjian, whose work can be seen in Terminals 4 and 8 at JFK airport in New York, said she was "airing out the sculptures in my living room" after the blaze on 48th Avenue.
2 - Works by 19 artists, including Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Lubaina Himid and Bridget Riley, from the UK government collection are going on tour across England.
The works, all of which are inspired by the sea, will be on view in a mobile museum traveling between Devon, Cornwall and Lancashire on the Art Explora bus founded by French philanthropist Frederic Jousset.
3 - Abigail Pogson, the new CEO of London's Barbican Center, has defended the controversial sacking of Devyani Saltzman, its director of arts and participation, after just 18 months in the role.
The sacking prompted complaints from figures including Salman Rushdie but Pogson told The Times of London there was no need for an overall head of arts when it already had four heads of theatre, visual art, music and cinema.
4 - Pioneering Malaysian art gallery owner Francis Willie has died aged in Kuala Lumpur aged 71.
His eponymous gallery in Singapore helped set the stage for the expansion of the city-state's contemporary art scene.
5 - The Lee Kun-hee Collection of Korean art, built up over decades by the late Samsung chairman, is coming to the British Museum in London this October.
It includes contemporary work by Nam June Paik and has recently been on show in Washington DC and Chicago.