French museum reports theft of banana from multimillion-dollar artwork

Pompidou-Metz museum contacts police after a guard notices Maurizio Cattelan’s iconic duct-taped centrepiece has vanished.

French museum reports theft of arty banana, part of a multimillion-dollar piece

Maurizio Cattelan's edible creation has sparked controversy ever since its debut at the 2019 Art Basel show in Miami Beach ...
Jacaranda FM

Controversial multimillion-dollar artwork stolen from French museum

Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's art sparked controversy since it made its debut at the 2019 Art Basel show in Miami ...
CBS News

Thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris, stealing jewelry of "inestimable heritage and historical value" in brazen heist

Thieves carried out a brazen daytime heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning, breaking into the famed landmark using a basket lift to force open a window, smash display cases and steal ...
The Times of Israel

New gallery at Paris museum reckons with French role in Nazi art looting

PARIS (AP) — The painting shows a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother staring across the Normandy coast toward an unknown horizon. The artwork itself faced an unknown future in 1942, when it was ...
The Star

French museum reports theft of multimillion-dollar arty banana

The Pompidou-Metz museum reported to French police the theft of a banana from Cattelan’s multimillion-dollar artwork 'Comedian'. The fruit, taped to a wall as the provocative work’s centrepiece, was ...