An almost four-decade success story seems to be ending in mutually assured destruction for leading art advisors Barbara Guggenheim and Abigail Asher.

A report in Artnet News says the pair lodged rival lawsuits with New York's Supreme Court following the collapse of their business after 37 years.

The advisors, who helped steer clients from Tom Cruise to Coca-Cola through the vagaries of the art market, are now trading allegations of exploitation and fraud.

Guggenheim accuses Asher of misappropriating more than $20.5 million while Asher alleges her former partner charged two luxury cars and the cost of her husband's funeral to the firm, according to legal documents.

Asher also says she was told to "wear leather" and sleep with clients to get business and was encouraged to "build a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein".

Each side denies the claims levied against them by the other.

Another day, another museum shedding staff.

This time it is the Milwaukee Art Museum announcing eight jobs will go or be "significantly reduced in scope and compensation”, according to the union representing staff.

It comes after a difficult period at the museum housed in a landmark building designed by Santiago Calatrava. The institution reduced its workforce from about 240 employees in 2019 to 180 over five years and then announced in May director Marcelle Polednik was leaving after being in charge since 2016.

The number of eggplants nailed to the walls of the National Gallery Singapore for Suzann Victor’s Still Life (1992/2025). The attached aubergines are one of more than 400 artworks on show in the exhibition Singapore Stories: Pathways And Detours In Art which opens in full on Friday.

Boston-based sculptor Alison Croney Moses has won this year's $50,000 Rappaport Art Prize.

The organizers of the prize, which is awarded annually to a contemporary artist with strong connections to New England, said she makes "wooden objects that reach out to your senses".

Croney Moses's first public commission forms part of the 2025 Boston Public Art Triennial. Her work can be seen in collections including at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

As part of the award, Croney Moses will deliver the Rappaport Art Prize Lecture on Wednesday, October 22, at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Hundreds of photographs, drawing, sculptures and films are going on show in a major new exhibition dedicated to Man Ray.

Man Ray: Forms of light will trace his career from New York to Paris in the 1920s and the surrealist's wartime years in Los Angeles and his return to France.

The show, which opens on September 24 at Milan's Palazzo Reale, is part of the 2026 Cultural Olympiad which is launched ahead of next year's Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in northern Italy.

An erotic mosaic has been returned to Pompeii decades after it was stolen by a German army officer.

The artifact, depicting a pair of lovers going to bed, is thought to have originally been on the bedroom floor of a villa in the Roman city which was buried in volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD.

It had been taken by the soldier during World War II and given to a friend whose heirs decided to return it.

Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, said: "Every looted artifact that returns is a wound that heals".

1 - A survey of French art galleries found more than three quarters are skeptical about the future of their businesses. The research carried out for the Professional Committee of Art Galleries found 85 percent of their members were pessimistic about the economic success of the art market.

2 - The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded $4.3 million to 51 organizations and institutions across America. Among those benefiting are The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, The Peale Center in Baltimore and 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.

3 - The River & Rowing Museum - the first major UK museum project of architect David Chipperfield - is closing its doors after 27 years. The future of the building in Henley-on-Thames in the south of England and its collection is uncertain after it closes on September 21.