Have you ever enjoyed a gallery so much you want to move in?

Canada's Art Gallery of Hamilton announced yesterday it has received around $687,000 in government funding with some of it earmarked for a new entrance and a new gallery before CEO Shelley Falconer admitted they had another much more ambitious plan for some of the money.

The gallery, which first opened its doors in 1914 and has work by Gustave Dore, Auguste Rodin and Walter Sickert among its collection, is "exploring" the idea of building homes on its site in Ontario.

Falconer said: "We are excited at the opportunity to include housing in the gallery’s plans, inclusive of affordable housing that supports the creative industries and workforce."

She said the idea would be "a first of its kind in Canada".

The number of directors who have taken charge of The Israel Museum in Jerusalem since James Snyder stepped down in 2016. Professor Yasha Grobman became the latest person to hold the post when his appointment was announced on Monday.

He might not look like it but Patrick Elliott is getting ready to lead a revolution.

A former curator at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, he has just been named the first-ever curator of modern paintings at London's National Gallery.

His job is to take the gallery, led by Gabriele Finaldi, into uncharted waters - for decades its collection stopped at 1900 and it left modern art to the Tate but that changed last year when it announced it had been given $500 million towards building a new wing that will become home to its new additions.

During his time in Scotland, Elliott was involved in acquiring works by contemporary artists from Jenny Saville and Damien Hirst to Peter Doig and the gallery said his "remit" will include developing its "collection of post-1900 painting through acquisitions, institutional exchanges (particularly with Tate), gifts and long-term loans".

He said: "I am very conscious of the need to collect the very best: modern paintings that can hold their own in a gallery full of Rembrandts and Titians. It’s an exciting challenge."

It is fair to say Philadelphia Art Museum's rebrand has not been an overwhelming success and now there are signs it might be dumped completely.

It has only been three months since the Philadelphia Museum of Art announced it was now going to be known as Philadelphia Art Museum or PhAM for short.

But the bright new dawn never really happened with dismissive locals dubbing it PhArt, while the CEO behind it, Sasha Suda, was forced out in November and now its chief marketing officer, Paul Dien, who played a crucial part in the rebrand has resigned.

All this leaves recently appointed boss Daniel Weiss pondering whether it might be worth turning back the clock and pretending it never happened.

He told the Philadelphia Inquirer he set up a task force to "look at how it’s playing, what works, what doesn’t work", adding: "The question is whether we’re in the territory of a rebrand that is counterproductive to our ambition or not."

1 - Joe Hill has been named the new director and chief executive of Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the north of England. He was previously in charge of the Towner gallery in Eastbourne which was named UK museum of the year during his tenure.

2 - Evan Beard is launching his own New York gallery having run a gallery for online art investment firm Masterworks for several years. Writing on Instagram, he said he was "building a team" for Beard & Co. which will open a space in the city's Upper East Side.

3 - It is not just politicians and CEOs at Davos. Performance artist Marina Abramovic and curator Mirjam Varadinis have rolled into the Swiss town on a bus they describe as "both sculpture and space for contemplation". Anyone getting on the bus is asked to lock away their phones, laptops and watches so they can "experience stillness".