No one can accuse the leadership of Bucharest's National University of Arts of acting hastily.

After 162 years in existence, they are finally getting around to opening their gallery to the public for the first time.

The building, which includes exhibits relating to artists including Constantin Brancusi, Stefan Luchian and Victor Brauner, will officially open its doors on Monday alongside a new library building.

It comes as Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry said it will spend $22 million to reopen its south entrance which has been closed since 1893.

The number of days it will take to dismantle JR's La Caverne du Pont Neuf installation in Paris after it closes on Sunday.

A dozen shipping containers estimated to have travelled more than 12 million miles already got another 3,000 miles on the clock when they were transported from Los Angeles to New York for a monumental new show.

The containers were used by Matt Johnson for his huge sculpture, Meditating Figure, which features in the LA Monumental show opening tomorrow at The Ranch in Montauk.

The 60-foot-high figure is made of the containers which are only decommissioned after traveling around a million miles each.

Johnson, who is joined in the show by fellow California-based artists Nancy Rubins and Paul McCarthy, told Cultured Mag: "This sculpture has essentially traveled around 12 million miles at sea before it was retired. That’s like traveling around Earth 500 times."

The show runs to November 15.

An almost decade-long legal argument could be coming to an end after an investigation was launched into whether a Van Gogh painting that has hung in a Paris museum for more than 50 years was stolen by the Nazis.

Klaus Kallmann, the grandson of German Jewish art collector Felix Kallman, says the work, Saint-Paul Hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, should be returned by the Musee d’Orsay.

The museum's own notes on its provenance show it was owned by Felix Kallman before passing through several other collections before it was donated in 1973.

France's Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation is expected to start examining the case in September.

It reports to the Prime Minister's office and has the power to formally recommend its return or financial compensation.

1 - Around 240 artists are opening their studios across the Hudson Valley and Catskills to the public tomorrow and Sunday as part of the Upstate Art Weekend. The project in upstate New York, set up in 2020, also includes guided tours, exhibitions and parties.

2 - Visitors to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii can now use an augmented reality app to see the city as it was before its destruction when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. Users can visit virtual reconstructions of the city's forum and theaters and watch gladiators fight via the app which works on tablets and smartphones.

3 - The Box Plymouth, in southwest England, has won the $158,000 UK Art Fund's Museum of the Year award. Home to more than 2 million objects and artworks, it has recently hosted shows by Osman Yousefzada, Jyll Bradley and Jeremy Deller.

4 - Roy Lichtenstein's I Love Liberty soared above its high estimate of $60,000 to sell for $212,850 at Phillips in New York yesterday. His image of the Statue of Liberty led the sale of works on paper which included an America 250 section celebrating the country's 250th anniversary.

5 - An auction record was set for Rose Wylie last night when her work, Sailing Boat, sold for $385,400 at Christie's in London beating her previous record by $80,300. The work was one of 56 offered from the collection of Anita and Poju Zabludowicz which brought in $20.5 million.