If the theft of Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet was not bad enough, a thief has added insult to injury by stealing his work Comedian from the wall of a French museum.

The Pompidou Center's outpost in Metz reported the theft of the work, which consists of a banana taped to the wall, on Saturday.

The museum condemned the theft which it said "undermines the respect due to exhibited works and temporarily deprives visitors of part of the experience offered by the exhibition" and replaced the banana.

It comes almost a year after a visitor to the gallery peeled the fruit off the wall and ate it. Another version of it was eaten by crypto billionaire Justin Sun after he paid $6.2 million for it and it was eaten after it was first unveiled at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Another Cattelan work, America, was stolen from Blenheim Palace in England seven years ago. The 18-carat solid gold toilet was never recovered and is assumed to have been melted down.

Lucian Freud's legendary model Sue Tilley nailed her sporting colors to the mast with an AI remake of her portrait which is expected to sell for $45 million next month.

Her re-imagined version of Sleeping by the Lion Carpet shows her in the kit of the north London soccer team Arsenal which she supports and was posted before they lost to Paris Saint-Germain in Saturday's Champions League final.

Tilley said she hoped the club's owners, the Kroenke family, would buy it - an irony that would not be lost on its seller Joe Lewis whose family's investment firm ENIC owns its bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

The painting is part of a Sotheby's sale of a group of works from the Lewis collection including paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon which is expected to fetch more than $200 million.

French-based Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc has died aged 97 - just days before a major show of his work opens at London's Tate Modern.

His son Yamil told the Argentine newspaper La Nacion he had hoped to attend the show but had been admitted to hospital in Paris after falling ill and died on Saturday.

Catherine Wood, Tate Modern's interim director, described him as "the grandfather of interactive art", adding: "We hope the show will be a fitting tribute to his endlessly creative and experimental vision."

The show opens at the gallery on June 11 and runs to May 3 next year.

1 - Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum says it is looking for "an inspiring sparring partner for staff" to become its new general and artistic director. The job advert for the role, replacing Rein Wolfs who has been in charge since 2019, says the new director is expected to start work next year.

2 - Philanthropist Judy Schulich has left the board of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto four months after making headlines when it was reported she criticized Nan Goldin's attitude to Israel while arguing against acquiring one of her works. Her three-year term on the board expired last week and Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Gaming said she decided not to renew her appointment.

3 - Borough Hall subway station in Brooklyn, New York, is now home to a 110-foot mural by Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze. The mosaic work, called May Your Road Be Light and Fun, is made up of images taken from some of her drawings over the last 14 years.

4 - Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the return of 20 cultural objects, valued at more than $100,000, to Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and New Zealand. The objects were retrieved during an investigation into convicted smuggler Subhash Kapoor.