One of the museum world's strangest competitions is expanding.

The National Museum of Korea's Dress Like a Museum Exhibit contest will now include 13 regional museums with the best entries advancing to the final in Seoul.

The contest, now in its third year, has proved an online sensation with images of the costumes going viral.

Last year's competition was won by a couple who used gold paint and paper to transform themselves into a pair of ancient gold earrings which are on show at the museum as part of its permanent collection.

Museum director You Hong-june said the success of last year's competition had brought young people "closer to the museum".

The five best entries will receive $1,980 in prize money with the winners declared on September 19.

The number of years since the western facade of the Parthenon in Athens has been free of external scaffolding. Greek Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni announced the long-awaited removal of the supporting structure after restoration work on two columns was recently completed.

Around 2 million people reportedly took to the streets of New York yesterday to mark the Knicks NBA win and the celebrations reach the hallowed halls of its Metropolitan Museum of Art this Sunday.

The museum, run by director Max Hollein, announced it would be "illuminated in blue and orange" - the team's colors - to "celebrate" their first championship in more than half a century.

Their success has seen the city transformed with public art and murals supporting the team, but at least one artist has called foul on a contemporary after Gavin Snider accused another of copying his work.

Snider, who was commissioned by the team to paint the crowds outside Madison Square Garden, accused Devon Rodriguez of replicating his work.

Rodriguez, who found fame with his realistic portraits of commuters on the city's subway, has a huge following for his work online. He has not commented on the claims but has since deleted the post which showed the work.

1 - Architect Renzo Piano and artist Maurizio Cattelan are both backing Padua's bid to be named Italy's 2028 Capital of Contemporary Art. Cattelan, who was born in the city, is joined on the project's artistic committee by curator Marta Papini and Myriam Ben Salah who was behind the French pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale.

2 - Staff at Seattle Art Museum voted to join a union after complaints over low wages and limited healthcare. They are the latest in a line of unions springing up in the sector with staff at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh among those to be recognized in recent years.

3 - The UK government has pledged $1.3 million to London's Jewish Museum to help fund its search for a new building. It closed in 2023 and its collection, including work by Rembrandt, has been without a permanent home since.

4 - Two new artist auction records were set at Christie's London sale of South Asian art last week. Ganesh Pyne's The Fisherman sold for $5.1 million and Abanindranath Tagore's Mahatma Gandhi, The Spinner of a Nation’s Destiny went for $1.3 million. For more click here.