Louvre bosses were more interested in "prestige and influence" than the museum's security, according to a new report.

The report, by the commission formed after the daylight robbery on October 19 when $103 million worth of jewelry was stolen from the Paris museum, found security had been "relegated to the back burner" by senior staff in recent years.

It said the building's security flaws were well known but were "relegated to the background, behind objectives of prestige and influence, which were given priority" and called for an increase to the $35 million security fund for the nation's museums.

The Louvre's current president Christophe Leribault, who was appointed in February after the resignation of Laurence des Cars who was in charge at the time of the robbery, recently said he wanted to reduce the amount taken from ticket sales to buy art to fund renovation work.

The report also called for pay rises and permanent contracts for security staff to make the job more attractive.

It comes only days after French authorities arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly planning a terrorist attack at the museum.

The amount raised for arts organizations in and around Cleveland, Ohio, by a tax on cigarette sales since it was introduced in 2007. The New York Times reported revenue has fallen by half over the last decade as fewer people smoke leaving local lawmakers looking for an alternative.

The United Kingdom may have a new Prime Minister by the time London's Wallace Collection opens its show dedicated to the painting of Winston Churchill in 10 days.

It is unlikely Keir Starmer will console himself over the loss of power by plunging into painting, but his predecessor certainly did.

The show, which runs from May 23 to November 29, features more than 50 works by the wartime leader who first picked up a paint brush after resigning from government in 1915.

It also includes work he submitted under a pseudonym to the Royal Academy's summer exhibition in 1947 when he was in opposition having been unceremoniously turfed out of office in a general election two years earlier.

Wallace Collection director Xavier Bray said the show was "a reminder that creativity can be both a personal solace and cultural force, and that even a figure as monumental as Churchill found renewal in front of a canvas".

Korean ceramicist Jongjin Park has won this year's $58,500 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.

His work, Strata of Illusion, is made from sheets of paper covered in a thin coating of clay before being folded and stacked into thick blocks.

Park, a professor at Seoul's Women’s University, will see his work go on show alongside pieces by the 29 other finalists at an exhibition at Singapore's National Gallery until June 14.

A photography show in Newark, New Jersey, is chasing after as big an audience as possible by installing huge blow-up shots on routes popular with the city's joggers.

Manuel Acevedo's images of the city in the 1980s are also on show in parks, busy intersections and a train station in a bid to reach a wide audience.

The show, which opened yesterday, is curated by Salamishah Tillet from Rutgers-Newark University and draws from thousands of pictures taken by Acevedo.

She told the New York Times she thought "fine art should be outside" and said the photographs portrayed the "brilliant energy and moving elegance" of the city.

1 - Air de Paris gallery has shut after 36 years and more than 400 shows after declaring bankruptcy. Its last show in the French capital included work by Trisha Donnelly, Pierre Joseph and Lily van der Stokker.

2 - Pennsylvania's Ursinus College has cut the funding of its Berman Museum of Art by 50% as it tries to find $10 million of savings by next year. The museum near Philadelphia, which holds a large collection of work by painter Francoise Gilot, opened in 1989.

3 - Three huge wooden totem poles have been unveiled on the Brooklyn waterfront in New York as part of a show by Woody De Othello. The poles, which stand at around 20ft high, are in Brooklyn Bridge Park until March 8 next year.