First the good news - The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has its first female director. The bad news is she is only in the role for two months.

Curator Toka Maleki was given the symbolic role, alongside existing male director Reza Dabirinejad, for the duration of the Iranian gallery's new show, In Women's Words, which shines a light on its large collection of modern women artists.

It includes work by artists including Monir Farmanfarmaian, Behjat Sadr and Iran Darroudi.

Darroudi, who died in 2021 aged 85, played a pivotal part in establishing the museum - it was her complaint to the then-Empress Farah Pahlavi that there was nowhere in Iran to permanently show contemporary art that led to the museum's opening in 1977 just two years before the Iranian Revolution swept away the old regime.

Much of its collection has stayed in storage since then with occasional exhibitions of its treasures, which include works by Francis Bacon, Gilbert & Georgeand Ed Ruscha, when the regime allows.

The number of people that have walked through the doors of Rome's National Galleries of Ancient Art to see its record-breaking Caravaggio exhibition. The show, which closed on Sunday after an extended run, had around 3,000 visitors a day.

Fake news, conspiracy theories and media manipulation. Welcome to the United States in... 1869.

Pioneering video artist Tony Oursler's latest show, a multimedia installation spread across six rooms in a Swiss museum, draws inspiration from the 19th century Cardiff Giant hoax.

It even takes its title, Hoisted from the Pit, from contemporary newspaper reports of the story which began when George Hull had a three-meter high stone figure carved and buried on a farm in Cardiff, New York, then dug it up a year later.

The discovery became a sensation with thousands of people paying to see what they thought was the preserved corpse of an ancient giant and P.T. Barnum even commissioned his own copy. Eventually, Hull confessed all.

Oursler's show, at the Kunst Museum in Winterthur, Austria, takes aim at social media and was partly produced using artificial intelligence to examine how information is produced and consumed today. It runs until August 10.

More than 100 artists and academics including Hans Haacke and Michael Rakowitz have signed an open letter calling for the re-opening of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program (ISP) and the reinstatement of Sara Nadal-Melsio as its associate director.

She was fired in June when the New York-based museum suspended the program following controversy over the cancellation of a pro-Palestinian performance piece.

The letter brands her dismissal as an "act of patriarchal institutional violence" and says the program must be allowed to be "independent" and a place where "creative and critical thinking can take place without threat of censorship and erasure".

When it announced the program's suspension, the Whitney said it affirmed its "commitment to the ISP as a vital space for artists, curators, and scholars".

Tributes have been paid to painter Raymond Saunders who died aged 90 only days after the end of a major exhibition of his work in his hometown of Pittsburgh.

His death was announced on Instagram in a statement from three galleries which represented him.

They said he would be remembered for his "singular oeuvre" combining "extensive formal training with his own lived experiences".

Saunders spent many years working in California, but was remembered in Pittsburgh where the city's Carnegie Museum of Art organized his major retrospective, Flowers from a Black Garden, which ran until July 13.

1 - Two planned new stations on the Rome metro will include underground museum spaces. The stops at Chiesa Nuova and San Pietro will be used to display artifacts found during their construction.

2 - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has announced it is cutting 5% of its staff. In a statement, it blamed "a prolonged period of softening tourism" which had hit visitor numbers and created "a financial gap that could not be closed without this action".

3 - When the current Bridget Riley show ends at London's Tate Britain on June 7 one of her paintings will stay behind. Riley has donated a new abstract, Concerto I, to Tate to join the nine paintings, 25 studies, and three works on paper by her it already holds.