Chicago's $850 million Obama Presidential Center opened earlier this year with five former US presidents in attendance and work by the likes of Rashid Johnson and Lorna Simpson on show, but something was missing according to one journalist.

Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet has launched a hunt for the controversial tan suit the former president wore in an August 2014 press conference which sparked claims of racism after he was criticized for looking un-presidential.

Sweet, who covered Obama's rise from Chicago's local politics to the White House in Washington DC, thinks it deserves a place as an exhibit in the museum but the problem is nobody knows where it is including the politician who said he gave it away while cleaning out his closet.

She told the newspaper: "This is more than hunting for a needle in a haystack. I don’t even know where the haystack is."

The price of a perfect passport photograph according to the Financial Times. New York photographer Thomas Tran told the newspaper much of the price covers the cost of the "increasingly expensive" discontinued Polaroid peel-apart film he uses which was used by Andy Warhol for portraits of the likes of Debbie Harry and Jane Fonda.

Investigators hunting the Renaissance paintings stolen from a museum in Sicily have found the getaway vehicle.

Police found the van, used by the thieves who stole the works by Antonello da Messina, dumped in an area not covered by security cameras and believe the gang continued their escape in a second vehicle.

The raid on the museum in Messina comes six months after the Italian government paid $14.9 million for an Antonello masterpiece Ecce Homo and has sparked a political outcry with the city's mayor saying it "deserves answers" about how museum security failed to prevent the theft.

1 - Bryan Joseph Lee promised a "bold vision for the future of arts and culture in New York City" after being appointed deputy commissioner of the city's Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). He will work with commissioner Diya Vij to manage its $323 million budget approved by mayor Zohran Mamdani last month.

2 - Historic images by pioneering photographers including Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Ansel Adams have been brought out of storage in Iran for a major show. They are being displayed alongside pieces by the likes of David Hockney and Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Tehran.

3 - Brett Littman has been appointed director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. The former director of the Noguchi Museum in New York succeeds Kathryn Kanjo who left after 15 years to join the newly merged UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art.

4 - The influence of the music of Kendrick Lamar on painter Tariku Shiferaw is up for discussion this Saturday at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Shiferaw will be joined at the event by musician Tane Runo, who collaborated with Lamar, to discuss his abstract work Element (Kendrick Lamar) which is on show in the museum.

5 - Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson will have his first major UK exhibition in a decade when his show, Weekdays in Arcadia, opens at the Goodwood Art Foundation in southern England on November 26. Sculptures, paintings and video installations will all be on show until April 12 next year.