1 - Clarissa Morales has been appointed chief operating officer at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.
She takes on the newly created position after a stint as deputy director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.
2 - Artist and poet Edgar Calel has won this year's $75,000 Sam Gilliam Award.
The jury included Shanay Jhaveri, head of visual arts at London's Barbican Center, and Clara Kim, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
3 - The Tate Britain Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith won a gold medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The design which includes a 1949 Barbara Hepworth work, Bicentric Form, will be incorporated into the restoration of the Clore Garden at the London gallery.
4 - The Guatemalan government is attempting to recover an ancient stone carving after it was wrongly repatriated from the United States to Mexico.
The 1,200-year-old artifact was handed into the Mexican consulate in New York but academic research has since confirmed its origin in Guatemala.
5 - Iraqi curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi has been appointed artistic director of Art Basel's 2027 Qatar edition.
It will be held from January 28 to 30 in Doha with the theme of "between" which a spokesperson said "resists resolution and refuses singular definition".
6 - The director of London's V&A museum, Tristram Hunt, said a $5.3 million donation from the UK's National Lottery Heritage Fund will help "reimagine" its South Asia gallery.
The money will fund a redesign of the space and allow for works not seen in decades to go on show when it re-opens in 2028.