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French museum files criminal complaint over theft of Maurizio Cattelan's infamous arty banana

“Comedian”, Maurizio Cattelan’s provocative artwork consisting of a banana taped to the wall, was stolen from the Centre Pompidou Metz in France during the weekend. Now, the museum has decided to file a complaint against persons unknown for the theft.

Euronews

Cattelan’s famous taped banana stolen from French museum

A museum in eastern France has filed a police complaint after a banana forming the centrepiece of Maurizio Cattelan’s multimillion-dollar conceptual artwork "Comedian" was stolen from an exhibition.

Radio France Internationale

Multimillion-dollar banana: French museum artwork 'Comedian', eaten twice before, is now stolen

A museum in eastern France has reported to police the theft of a banana that forms the core of a multi-million dollar artwork by Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan, officials said on Sunday.

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Controversial Easter confessions: Maurizio Cattelan kicks off sinners hotline

For his latest work, Maurizio Cattelan wants you to confess... Absolution is at stake. To mark the start of Easter, as well as the 21st anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death, the Italian artist has also made a limited edition of his most provocative and widely debated work... 666…

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Calling all sinners: for his latest work, artist Maurizio Cattelan wants people to confess

Italian art provocateur to play priest in Catholic-inspired work that invites people from around world to be absolved

The Guardian - UK

Cool design and wild art on a city break in Metz, north-east France

The small city in the Lorraine region has been put on the map with the aid of two Parisian heavyweights – a loan from the Pompidou Centre and designer Philippe Starck’s quirky new hotel

The Guardian - UK

Ripley’s ‘flush with excitement’ after buying gold toilet worth £9.3m

The first casting was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019.

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Golden toilet’s new owner explains why they made £9.3m purchase

The first casting was stolen by thieves from Blenheim Palace in 2019

The Independent UK

Solid gold toilet sells for $12 million at auction

Maurizio Cattelan’s fully functional gold toilet titled “America” sold for $12.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.

Euronews

Bidding begins at $10 million. How much will this solid gold toilet sell for?

Owned by an unnamed collector, it's one of two such toilets that Cattelan created in 2016.

The Independent UK

Solid gold toilet worth $10 million set to go under the hammer

The golden toilet weighs 101.2 kilograms

The Independent UK

No Chardins? No Leonardos? We’re lucky the Louvre raiders had dreadful taste in art

The philistine thieves skipped the museum’s real treasures in favour of dull royal knick-knacks. Was the French interior minister serious when he talked about their ‘immeasurable heritage value’?

The Guardian - UK

Why is Scandinavia’s largest international art fair going bananas for Thyra Hilden’s ‘Equal Satire’?

A new banana-centric artwork by Danish artist Thyra Hilden has been exhibited and sold at Copenhagen’s Enter Art Fair. Here's why it has been one of the standouts of this year's edition.

Euronews

Art or a convenient snack? Someone ate Cattelan’s 'Comedian' banana (again)

A banana duct-taped to a museum wall – ‘Comedian’, a conceptual artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan – has once again been eaten by a visitor. It’s not the first time, and probably won’t be the last.

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Virgin by Lorde is a layered work of performance art – her smartest references explained

With her latest album, Virgin, Lorde is stretching the concept of the virgin beyond the common definition. Some may consider the album’s title and its cover art – an X-ray of Lorde’s pelvis showing an IUD – to be contradictory.

The Guardian - UK

Two men jailed over theft of £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace

James Sheen given four-year term and Michael Jones 27 months after ‘bold and brazen’ theft of toilet in Oxfordshire

The Independent UK

Man who ‘foolishly’ agreed to help steal £4.75m gold toilet avoids jail time

“I am a good person” said the 36-year-old after his sentencing

The Guardian - UK

‘Gunshots were my obsession’: the nicked golden toilet’s creator on his new pump-action art

Maurizio Cattelan, the great Italian conceptual prankster who framed a banana and plumbed in a precious loo, explains why he’s now blasting holes in sheets of gold

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Adventures in AI, inner children unleashed and provocations from a master prankster – the week in art

Mat Collishaw’s cutting-edge experiments, a delirious meeting of two legends and more mischief from Maurizio Cattelan – all in your weekly dispatch

Evening Standard

Photographer Miles Aldridge to host ‘marathon’ Polaroid sessions at Sotheby’s

The project offers members of the public the chance to take home their own Polaroid portrait.

The Guardian - UK

March design news: Maurzio Cattelan goes Greek, art teapots and house paint that changes colour

Exhibitions at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, a guide to green wood carving and funeral urns by Alessi

Euronews

In Pictures: The week in Culture

If a picture paints a thousand words... here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (17-21 March 2025).

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Jury convicts thieves who stole satirical golden toilet from Churchill’s birthplace

The audacious heist of a unique and functioning artwork by conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan has ended with the conviction of three men.

The Independent UK

Men found guilty of stealing £4.75m golden toilet from Blenheim Palace

The fully-functioning 18-carat toilet was a star attraction in an art installation before its theft

Evening Standard

Man denies helping thief sell gold from golden toilet after Blenheim Palace raid

Frederick Doe is accused of helping James Sheen sell gold from an 18-carat toilet that was stolen in an ‘audacious raid’ at Blenheim Palace in 2019.

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