The crisis in US university funding has claimed another victim.

Last month it was Chicago's DePaul University coming under fire, now it is the University of Pennsylvania.

DePaul was criticized after announcing it was closing its art museum as it wrestled with a $27.4 million budget cut.

Things are not that bad yet at Penn but it has still attracted ire after deciding to sell a 1891 painting by Ottoman artist Osman Hamdi Bey to raise much-needed funds.

The painting, Cami Kapisinda (At the Mosque Door), was bought from the artist directly in 1895 and is being sold at Bonhams in London on Wednesday where it is expected to fetch $4 million.

The university says the money will be spent on the museum collection's long-term care, but that has not stopped it from being criticized with Christiane Gruber, professor of Islamic art at the University of Michigan, telling ARTnews it showed "a lack of public scrutiny and accountability".

Museums in Denmark and the Netherlands have formed a Ron Mueck mutual appreciation society to share his work.

The Aarhus Art Museum (ARoS) is lending its 4.5-meter-high sculpture Boy to the Museum Voorlinden near The Hague and in return receiving its piece Couple Under an Umbrella.

The deal has been done with the artist's approval. Mueck said: "It’s a massive undertaking to transfer and exchange these works, I can’t wait to see how they interact with their new environments."

Couple Under an Umbrella will go on show in Denmark from September 12 while Boy can be seen at Museum Voorlinden from the same date until February 21 before it returns to Aarhus on March 6.

The number of fragments a 1,000-year-old statue of Shiva was left in after being smashed in the 14th century. A Cambodian conservation team spent decades collecting them and the last five years putting the 7-tonne sandstone sculpture back together.

Curators at the Art Gallery of Ontario have finally put a name to a face six years after starting their search.

Researchers at the museum in Toronto got to work after it bought an 18th-century painting at auction in January 2020 without knowing the identity of the painter or the subject.

They eventually identified the artist as Berlin-born Jeremias Schultz who worked as a portrait painter in Amsterdam which led them to two of his ancestors.

Their family research helped them prove the painting showed Eleonora Susette, a woman born into slavery in present-day Guyana, who was brought to Amsterdam to work as a nanny.

Adam Levine, assistant curator of European art, said the reaction from the public to their discovery spoke to "this heartfelt and earnest desire to restore an identity to our sitter".

He said further research showed she was sent back to slavery after the painting was made and the museum would "continue to look for further details of her life after her travel to Amsterdam".

Fifteen years after he was held in a Chinese prison cell, visitors to Ai Weiwei's newest show can pay £15 ($20) to watch him recreate his incarceration.

The 24-hour performance piece, called Sewing a Button, will see him eat, sleep and be interrogated in a recreation of his 7.2 meter by 3.6 meter cell at Aviva Studios in Manchester in northern England.

It takes its name from a moment two months into his detention when a guard finally gave him a needle and thread to mend a button holding his trousers up.

The performance on July 3-4 runs alongside his exhibition which opens on July 2 and goes to September 6 and features two new commissions including a reworking of his History of Bombs mural made from more than 1 million toy bricks.

Other works on show include Law of the Journey (2017), a 47-meter-long inflatable migrant boat containing hundreds of human figures.

1 - A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed in the grounds of the White House in Washington D.C. yesterday. It is part of the administration's policy celebrating the explorer as an American hero and is a replica of one protesters in Baltimore dumped into the city’s harbor six years ago.

2 - An exhibition of photographer Tish Murtha opens in the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northeast England, on July 4. The show is accompanied by a new work by local artist Kuba Ryniewicz to stand alongside Murtha's images of the area during its industrial decline in the 1970s and 1980s.

3 - Dozens of statues and murals of labor leader Cesar Chavez are set to be demolished and painted over after recent revelations show he sexually abused a string of women and young girls. It is not known how many memorials to the former farmworkers leader exist but 30 murals were painted as late as 2008 in California as part of a project commemorating his life.

4 - Works by Canaletto and his nephew and pupil Bernardo Bellotto will go on show together in an exhibition opening tomorrow at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Views of Venice, London and the Austrian capital all feature with works on loan from institutions including the British Museum and the Wallace Collection and the Princely Collections of Liechtenstein.