Try telling French theatre producer Lénaïc Lebrun crime does not pay.

His stage show about the exploits of fictional French thief Arsene Lupin is currently playing to sell-out crowds in Paris and has recently extended its run and Lebrun says it is all down to the $102 million Louvre jewelry heist.

He told the Times of London the theft was "deplorable", adding: "But I’d be lying if I denied that it’s served as an effective promotional tool for us. It suddenly made us topical and a bit edgy."

His show, in which the dashing gentleman thief steals Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from the museum, opened two weeks before the real heist.

French police have made arrests and charges have been brought but none of the jewels have been recovered.

The amount Maurizio Cattelan paid Massimiliano Gioni every month to stand in for him during press interviews and lectures over almost a decade. Gioni, currently artistic director of New York's New Museum, said one of his university appearances so upset a student she demanded her tuition fees be refunded.

Artist Barry Martin, who has died aged 82, originally wanted to be an astronaut.

The English painter, sculptor and performance artist even got a glider pilot’s license aged 17 but changed his mind after attending classes at London's Goldsmiths College and then went to Central St Martins which eventually named its award for experimental art after him.

Another abiding interest was chess and he captained the Chelsea Arts Club team.

He also helped organize a symposium at Tate on the relationship between the game and art attended by John Cage and Marcel Duchamp's widow, Teeny.

His work is held in collections including the Tate, London's National Portrait Gallery and the V&A.

A $4 million restoration project to make America's House of Tomorrow fit for today is almost over.

The glass-walled house was designed by George Fred Keck for Chicago's World Fair in 1933 and more than a million visitors marveled at its futuristic design complete with air conditioning, dishwasher, refrigerator and a hanger for the family airplane.

It survived the fair and its journey across Lake Michigan to a new home in Indiana, but later fell into disrepair and lost some of its original features.

Now restoration work funded by the US government, including fitting new glass walls, is almost complete.

The next part of the project will see work done on its interior with the aim of making the historic house fit for overnight stays.

1 - Early bird tickets for this year's Venice Biennale have gone on sale. The cut-price tickets for the event, which runs from May to November, will be on sale until the end of March before reverting to full price.

2 - A painting of Jesus created on stage at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida in just 10 minutes sold for $2.75 million. The painting was the work of Vanessa Horabuena who describes herself as a "Christian worship artist".

3 - Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai protested after one of his works was used by the US Department of Homeland Security to promote its deportation policy. The image of a car parked on an empty beach with a wave coming in was overlaid with the headline "America after 100 million deportations".

4 - The British Museum wants to hire a treasure hunter to help find hundreds of stolen artifacts taken from its collection. The London institution revealed thousands of items were missing after an audit in 2023.