There are more column inches in the newspapers about Banksy than there are new facts about the publicity-shy graffiti artist.

They are in response to the Reuters investigation we covered on Monday confirming the open secret he is actually Robin Gunningham from the English city of Bristol.

It also revealed he has changed his name to the more mundane David Jones in a bid to maintain his anonymity - a move the critics seem to agree will not hinder his commercial appeal one bit.

Gallerist Acoris Andipa told the New York Times his clients "buy Banksy’s art because of the art itself", adding: "The majority of Banksy buyers don’t care about his identity or want to know his identity."

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Kelly Crow said his previous anonymity had put off some collectors and "the revelation could actually give his sales a much-needed boost".

Eddy Frankel in the Times of London agreed, saying the Reuters report "won't change anything" and Banksy will keep "stencilling his work on walls around the world, his value on the art market will keep rising as a result and his popularity will still grow, with (almost) all of the mystery intact".

One person who did not wish to comment was a spokeswoman for the artist who did not reply to a query from HENI News.

The number of Academy Awards won by Meryl Streep who has given a "significant seven-figure gift" to America's National Women’s History Museum. The actress said she wanted to support the museum "so that future generations inherit a history that is both truthful and complete".

It was 36 years ago today that two men dressed as police officers rang the intercom of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum sparking a mystery that is still unsolved.

They were buzzed in and proceeded to tie up two guards before walking out with a haul of treasures including three Rembrandts, a Vermeer, a Manet and five sketches by Degas.

No-one has ever been charged with the crime and none of the works have ever been recovered but one retired FBI agent who investigated the case says he is confident they will be found.

Geoffrey Kelly told the Boston Globe nearly everyone investigated as a person of interest in the investigation - which pointed the finger for the theft at an organized crime network in the northeastern United States - was now dead.

He said: “Someone will attempt to monetize them, and the FBI will be there, posing as a crooked art broker or a New Jersey mobster or perhaps the recovery will be more organic, and a distant relative cleaning out a decedent’s attic will stumble across The Storm."

The museum itself regards the case as an "active and ongoing investigation" and says its "commitment to recovering the stolen works has never diminished".

We do not know much about the planned Rong art museum being built in Shenzhen by billionaire Pony Ma Huateng but we do know it currently has no collection and as of last month only had one employee.

Fortunately that employee is Pi Li, the former head of art at Hong Kong's Tai Kwun art center, who has written an open letter announcing he is now director of the new museum.

Li said he was "building its inaugural team" ahead of the museum's opening in the second half of 2027.

He said he wanted it to "offer exhibition programs shaped by an international perspective" and attract international audiences to the building which has a floor area of around 4,500 square meters.

In his letter, which was accompanied by a previously-unseen image of the planned building, he said the museum was an attempt to "rethink what a cultural institution can be in the 21st century".

Pony Ma reportedly has a personal fortune of around $63 billion and is the co-founder of internet giant Tencent Holdings.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested after going on a rampage causing more than $240,000 of damage in a museum dedicated to the work of glass artist Dale Chihuly.

Police were called to Seattle's Chihuly Garden and Glass after reports of a man smashing sculptures and threatening security staff with shards of glass.

Seattle Police Department said the man was arrested on suspicion of burglary and assault.

The museum opened in 2012 and includes drawings as well as sculptures by the artist whose monumental installations redefined the perception of glass as an artistic medium.

1 - Madeleine Grynsztejn, the director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, has announced she is standing down at the end of this year. She has spent 18 years at the museum and said she was "eager to apply what we’ve accomplished at the MCA to the wider art world". Her time at the museum has seen it champion work by artists including Kerry James Marshall, Takashi Murakami, Doris Salcedo and Virgil Abloh.

2 - Trevor Paglen has won this year's $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award. The New York-based artist was praised for work which "brings visibility to digitally invisible structures" and "reveals how power, secrecy, and surveillance influence what we see––and what remains unseen––within digital systems".

3 - The city of Johannesburg has pledged $3 million to restore the Johannesburg Art Gallery with nearly half the money funding the relocation of its collection while the work is done. But opposition politicians have said the building intended to temporarily home the collection, which includes work by Auguste Rodin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Camille Pissarro and Henry Moore, does not meet international museum standards for climate stability, security and conservation.

4 - Warsaw's Poster Museum re-opened on Saturday after a five-year refurbishment program. The museum, which first opened in 1968, marked its relaunch with a new exhibition including more than 200 works from its 36,000-strong collection.

5 - Helen Legg has been appointed as artistic director of London's Royal Academy of Arts. She is currently Director of Tate Liverpool and previously worked at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery.