There is no end in sight for the long-running legal battle over an Amedeo Modigliani painting bought 30 years ago by dealer David Nahmad despite New York's Supreme Court ordering him to give it up.

It ordered him to return the painting, valued at $30 million, in 30 days to Philippe Maestracci, the grandson of the late Jewish dealer Oscar Stettiner, who says it was looted by the Nazis.

Nahmud argues that is not true and his lawyers told The Art Newspaper they will appeal the court decision - a move Maestracci's lawyers say could hold up the case for another five years.

He bought the 1918 painting, Seated Man With a Cane, in 1996 for $3.2 million and it is now estimated to be worth 10 times as much.

The number of ducklings who temporarily made their home in the Frick Collection's reflecting pool over the weekend. The New York museum commissioned its engineering team to make a ramp to help the birds climb out of the pool and reported all 11 and their mother had since moved on to the model boat pond in Central Park.

For $3,295 a month you can rent this Keith Haring mural and get the three-bedroom house he painted it on.

The property in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Point Breeze is praised by letting agents OCF Realty for its easy parking, ample outdoor living space and the "huge grocery store nearby" before the advert even mentions the "beautifully restored mural from the world famous artist, Keith Haring".

Haring drew the work, called We The Youth, over a few days in September 1987 coinciding with the bicentennial of the United States Constitution.

He worked on it with 14 students and the original plan was for it to be painted on the side of a garbage truck but that was turned down by the city's sanitation department.

The new $577 million London Museum will open its doors on November 28.

Among the objects going on display in the restored market buildings, designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan, are a work by Banksy painted on a police box, the vest worn by King Charles I at his execution in 1649 and a fatberg removed from the sewers of east London.

Visitors to the General Market building will also be able to see a rather more unusual exhibit - a six-metre viewing window offering the chance to watch live trains rumble through the galleries as passengers peer in from the passing Thameslink line.

The museum's first exhibition, London Tastes, will run to August 2027 and explore the city's food. Its former home on London Wall is due to be demolished after a legal campaign to save it was defeated.

It is not just the state of the Louvre causing headaches for France's political elite.

A report into Pierre-Olivier Costa, director of Marseille's Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem), is expected to land on the desk of culture minister Catherine Pegard any day now.

She will be expected to decide the fate of Costa, a former chief of staff to French First Lady Brigitte Macron, after a stream of complaints against him.

An investigation was opened after a report of sexual harassment against him and dozens of staff members signed a critical open letter complaining about him.

Costa has been in charge since 2022 at the museum in the south of France which was designed by Rudy Ricciotti and opened in 2013.

1 - A former director of the Museum of Local Lore in Mariupol is being investigated by Ukrainian authorities over claims she "facilitated the illegal appropriation by Russia of unique works of art". The case revolves around five paintings, valued at around half-a-million dollars, including work by Ivan Aivazovsky and Arkhip Kuindzhi according to the country's Prosecutor General's office.

2 - Brooklyn-based Teresita Fernandez will be the first artist to install a site-specific commission in the Menil Collection's Fresco Building. The museum in Houston, Texas, said it wanted to repurpose the building which has been closed for almost 10 years.

3 - Carl Michael von Hausswolff is one of more than 30 artists taking part in a new sound art festival called Nine Days of Green opening today. It runs to June 27 and transforms the Copenhagen suburb of Sorgenfri Torv into a sound library with installations in cafes, shops and the countryside.

4 - An anonymous donation will ensure residents of Shelby County, home to Tennessee's Memphis Art Museum, will get free entry to the building forever. The newly expanded $180 million building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, will open on December 6.