The announcement former New York Metropolitan Museum of Art boss Daniel Weiss is taking over at the Philadelphia Art Museum hailed his "ability to navigate complex institutional challenges" - he is going to need it.

He takes on the top job just a fortnight after his predecessor Sasha Suda was dismissed prompting her to sue the museum which now alleges she stole from it.

Suda says she fell foul of a “corrupt and unethical faction” of the museum’s board who objected to her modernization plans.

The institution says she "misappropriated funds from the museum and lied to cover up her theft", a claim she denies.

If that was not bad enough, the museum's former head of human resources and diversity initiatives, Latasha Harling, was charged with theft earlier this year after police said she spent more than $58,000 on a company credit card and failed to repay it.

On top of all that, the museum is running an operating deficit, visitor numbers have not recovered from the pandemic and a rebrand carried out just before Suda was forced out has been seen as underwhelming.

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will use AI and AR technology to enhance the visitor experience when it opens next year, according to the man behind the Gulf state's cultural plan.

Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism, told journalists the museum will mix major names such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Jean-Michel Basquiat with contemporary artists working away from the art world spotlight.

Journalists were told the Frank Gehry-designed museum would use technology alongside "human storytelling" to tell people more about the art they were looking at.

He said: "I don’t want a visitor at the Guggenheim to come and say ‘this is a beautiful Warhol’, with a little panel that tells them this Warhol was painted at this time and that’s it, thank you very much.

"That’s easy, that’s boring. What I want to know is, what was Warhol thinking at the specific time? Where was he living? What was going on with the environment around him?"

1 - Another day, another theft from a museum. This time it was the Lausanne Roman Museum falling victim. Swiss police were called after several dozen gold coins were taken during an armed raid last Tuesday. No arrests have been made.

2 - The death has been announced of American artist Llyn Foulkes at the age of 91. He emerged as a Pop art pioneer in the early 1960s and also worked with photography and collage and as a musician in Los Angeles where he lived for many years.

3 - Anna Katherine Brodbeck has left her role as senior curator at the Dallas Museum of Art to become deputy director at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. It comes just days before Brian Ferriso takes over as the new director in Dallas after almost 20 years at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon.

4 - The Huntington museum and library in Los Angeles has just acquired a rare American Civil War work by Winslow Homer. The 1863 painting, The Sutler's Tent, was made during the artist's time with the Union army during the war and will go on show on December 7.