There is less than half a mile between Palermo's Church of Santa Caterina and its Palazzo Abatellis museum but a gulf exists between them over who gets a major work by Baroque master Anthony van Dyck.

The Sicilian city is split over who gets La Madonna del Rosario which he painted in 1624 and which was kept at the church for almost 300 years before being relocated to the museum.

It stayed there for more than a century until it was loaned back to the church last month for its grand reopening after a $1 million restoration.

The church want to keep it with rector Giuseppe Bucaro telling the Times of London its 300,000 visitors, almost 10 times what the museum gets, means it would be "at the heart of the community".

But the regional government says it should go back to the museum who could lend it to the church twice a year - an idea described by Bucaro as "not very respectful of the painting".

A piece of public art put on show in a Southern California airport has led to accusations of blasphemy.

April Bey's Afrofuturist image Enter Big God’s Bed! Man’s on His Knees Giving Big God Head was on show at John Wayne Airport near Los Angeles for five months until December.

One traveler, Brenda Lebsack, told the LA Times she saw the image of a Black woman with pineapples while waiting for a delayed flight.

She said: "I anticipated the exhibit would honor faith traditions and shared values that uplift and inspire, especially during the holidays. Unfortunately, what I encountered was just the opposite. Culture should never be used as a vehicle to disguise blasphemy."

Members of the local Orange County Board of Supervisors said there needs to be "more oversight" of public artwork in the future.

Peruvian artist Antonio Paucar has won this year's $53,600 Artes Mundi prize and will use the money to set up his own art school.

His work includes video, sculpture and performance art and he made a series of woven wool sculptures for the prize.

He said the money would go towards the restoration of his grandparents' old home "to safeguard the house and workshop of my ancestors".

He added: "It seems equally appropriate to me that this space be transformed into a small, independent art school, given that the nearest and largest city, Huancayo, does not have an art school nor a museum of art."

His work, along with the other five shortlisted artists, can currently be seen in a show at the National Museum Cardiff in Wales.

An 18-month-long conservation project of a major work by Paulus Potter has revealed the Dutch artist scaled back a part of a bull's anatomy to spare the blushes of his 17th-century audience.

Staff at the Mauritshuis in The Hague removed layers of varnish and paint from previous restorations and also showed how the painter had changed the size and shape of his work before completing it.

Conservator Abbie Vandivere said: "It started as a smaller composition, just a painting of a bull, maybe with the cow in it. When he made the composition bigger, he made a ton of changes, also to parts of the bull’s anatomy… His balls were bigger and lower."

The painting has a tempestuous history - part of the royal collection in the Netherlands it was stolen by French troops and shown in the Louvre in Paris for years before it was returned.

It can be seen in the museum's conservation workshop, which is open to the public, for another month before it is moved back to its Potter Gallery.

1 - A circular keyboard made for a member of Lady Gaga's band and a steel guitar that doubled as a crutch for country singer Barbara Mandrell are among the objects going on show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show Musical Bodies, which opens on June 7, explores the relationship between musical instruments and the human body through 130 exhibits dating from ancient Egypt to the modern day.

2 - Indian artist and curator Bose Krishnamachari has resigned as president of the Kochi Biennale Foundation which he founded in 2010. The current biennale opened on December 12 and is expected to close as scheduled on March 3. Previous events have been marred by claims of failures to pay artists and a breakdown in communication between organizers and participants.

3 - The fourth Desert X AlUla biennial opens today in Saudi Arabia and runs to February 28. Curated by Wejdan Reda and Zoe Whitley, it features land art by 11 artists inspired by the poet Kahlil Gibran placed in different sites across the desert.

4 - Self-taught artist Harvey Pratt, who designed the National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., has died aged 84. He worked in law enforcement for much of his career and honed his artistic skills sketching wanted suspects in cases including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and creating images used to identify victims of serial killers including Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer.