We might not be able to sketch, paint or sculpt like Michelangelo but we can now at least fill in an Excel document in the style of the Renaissance genius.

The Vatican has joined forces with Microsoft to develop Michelangelus, a new typeface based on his handwriting, which will be available on applications including Word and Excel by the end of the year.

Designer Stefano Calandro told Microsoft the font was inspired by a letter an elderly Michelangelo sent to his nephew telling him not to write back until he had improved his handwriting.

He said: "The aesthetic side of the characters were super important to the master, but also the accessibility and readability."

A Microsoft spokesman said the company was "humbled and hyped to offer this accessible, adaptable, and elegant font to our customers".

Philadelphia's love affair with Keith Haring is finally official after the city made his We the Youth mural a registered historical landmark.

Its Historical Commission voted unanimously to add the 1987 work, on the side of a house in the city's Point Breeze neighborhood, to its register of historic places meaning it cannot be removed or altered without permission.

Haring made the mural with a group of students to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and it was restored by Mural Arts Philadelphia in 2013.

Simon Castets, director of the Keith Haring Foundation, told The Philadelphia Inquirer: "To finally see the community here stand for the recognition of this unique piece of collaborative work is particularly meaningful."

The queen of performance art Marina Abramovic has gone back to first principles and picked up a pencil again.

Abramovic, whose show at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Venice ends on Sunday, is famous for her wholehearted commitment to her work.

Her performances have seen an audience member put a loaded gun to her head while she sat silently opposite members of the public for more than 700 hours at New York's Museum of Modern Art for her show The Artist is Present.

She told the Times of London she has now started drawing again, having given it up aged 23, saying: "I love drawing. Every concept and idea I have starts with a drawing."

Abramovic, who turns 80 this year, said her work is benefiting from her slowing down and no longer appearing at every show.

She said: "In many ways I become an obstacle to my own work. People want to see me, they take selfies with me. But what they actually have to do is look at the work."

1 - Katerina Gregos has been appointed curator of Slovenia's 11th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana next year. The director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Gregos previously curated the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Latvia and has worked with Madrid's Reina Sofia museum among others.

2 - Around 130 people took part in a demonstration demanding the reopening of Chicago's DePaul Art Museum. The museum, home to works by Andy Warhol and Dawoud Bey, closed in June when DePaul University said it could not afford to keep it open.

3 - Photographs by Yevonde, Edward Steichen and Edward Weston are among those going on show at a new exhibition opening at London's Tate Modern on Wednesday. Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography, which runs to February 21, features more than 200 vintage prints by more than 80 photographers.

4 - A mural commemorating sculptor Richard Hunt has been unveiled in his native Chicago. The work, based on a photograph of him in his studio, is on the side of a building less than a mile from the Obama Presidential Center on the city's Southside where one of Hunt's final works is installed.