1 - The 2026 Busan Biennale opens on August 29 with 44 artists and teams from 23 countries showing work in three venues in the South Korean city.
Co-directed by Amal Khalaf and Evelyn Simons, it will feature work by Joshua Serafin, Natasha Tontey and Eric Baudelaire among others.
2 - A book about the Louvre's $102 million jewel heist is inspiring two different films.
French director Romain Gavras has signed up to make a movie about last year's break-in in Paris while Le Monde reports a British filmmaker has bought the documentary rights.
3 - A bronze statue of poet C.P. Cavafy has been vandalized less than a month after it was unveiled near the Acropolis in Athens.
The attackers snapped off part of a pair of glasses which have now been fixed.
4 - Francois-Henri Pinault has been appointed board chairman and non-executive director of Christie's replacing Guillaume Cerutti.
The French businessman and son of Francois Pinault said it was a "privilege" to take on the role at the auction house.
5 - More than 35,000 people visited this year's Photo London fair at Olympia in the west of the city earlier this month.
The event attracted 140 exhibitors from 31 countries and will return to the same venue next May.
6 - London's British Museum said it canceled a planned talk for Jewish Culture Month over "security concerns".
It said the lecture was axed after it was told "a significant proportion of registered attendees were individuals intending to deliberately disrupt the event, preventing others from participating in good faith and undermining the purpose of the programme".