The argument over the sacking of Philadelphia Art Museum director Sasha Suda has burst into the open after she took legal action against her former employers.

A 30-page lawsuit filed in the city's Court of Common Pleas says she was let go after "her efforts to modernize the museum clashed with a small, corrupt, and unethical faction of the board intent on preserving the status quo."

She is seeking two years' salary, which would come to around $1.5 million as well as what the claim calls "significant damages". The museum has not so far responded to her claims.

Suda was sacked last week just three years into her five-year contract at the museum. It came after a controversial rebranding in October gave the institution a new logo and changed its name.

The change from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Philadelphia Art Museum was accompanied by the suggestion it be known as PhAM though some detractors instead referred to it as PhArt.

Suda, who was previously director and chief executive of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, has been replaced temporarily by deputy director of curatorial affairs Louis Marchesano.

The value of the world's most expensive pair of jeans currently on show in the Levi's museum, The Vault, in San Francisco. Previously owned by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain they were sold at auction in 2023.

It was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect David Chipperfield and got the royal seal of approval when it was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 and now the former home of the UK's River and Rowing Museum could be yours.

You will need a spare $3.9 million, according to the advert posted by real estate firm CBRE, but that gets you a 35,688 sq ft building linked by a glass and concrete footbridge with 78 parking spaces that "occupies a serene position" by the River Thames in Oxfordshire.

What it does not get you are any of the 35,000 objects that were in its collection, including the contents of the John Piper gallery, when the museum closed its doors in September citing financial pressures that made it unsustainable.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has gone virtual - the esteemed New York institution run by Max Hollein has unveiled its first ever virtual reality shows.

Visitors to its website, or anyone with their own VR headset, can now step inside the Temple of Dendur as well as see major works in 3D from the Oceanic art collection without having to visit the recently reopened Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.

The Roman-Egyptian temple dates from the first century BCE and was acquired by the museum in 1967 after Egypt gave it to the US following a campaign to save antiquities from flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan dam.

The Oceania VR experience includes a closer look at 15 objects from the collection including masks and sculptures.

1 - Jeddah-born artist Dana Awartani will represent Saudi Arabia at next year's Venice Biennale as part of an all-female team. She will work with curator Antonia Carver and assistant curator Hafsa Alkhudairi on the country's pavilion.

2 - Painter George Condo is now jointly represented by the Spruth Magers and Skarstedt galleries after six years with Hauser & Wirth. Condo, who started out as a musician, is currently the subject of a major show at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris that runs to February 8.

3 - Ed Ruscha has teamed up with Los Angeles-based chocolatiers to make a limited edition chocolate bar. Only 300 bars, molded to recreate the landscape of California’s Central Valley, has been made and will sell for $295.

4 - Ukrainian authorities have published a list of 1,233 paintings stolen from the Kherson Art Gallery by Russian forces. Among them is work by Maria Prymachenko and Ivan Aivazovsky.