A student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is due in court tomorrow after being arrested for ripping another student's artwork off the wall and eating it.

Student newspaper the Sun Star reported Graham Granger said he vandalized the work by fellow student Nick Dwyer in protest because it was generated using artificial intelligence.

It estimated around 57 of 160 images on show were destroyed before police arrested Granger.

Dwyer told the newspaper: "When you make art, you become vulnerable and so the artwork is vulnerable and that's something that makes it seem more alive or more real or in the moment."

The use of AI in the art world has long been controversial. Around 4,000 people signed a petition last year calling on Christie's to cancel an auction of AI-generated work.

The sale made $728,784 with the top lot, Machine Hallucinations – ISS Dreams – A by Refik Anadol, fetching $277,200.

The number of staff members at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art who voted to unionize with 172 who voted against. They will now be part of the same union representing staff at institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art.

You wait ages for a show of unfinished art then two come along at once.

First up is Rome's Capitoline Museums which opened The Unfinished last Thursday with abandoned paintings by the likes of Jacopo Palma the Elder and Guido Reni on show.

Not to be outdone is Munster's Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso which has revealed more details about its Christo and Jeanne-Claude show, un|realized, which opens on April 4.

The couple found fame with their spectacular site-specific installations including their 1995 wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin, but more than twice as many of their projects never went beyond the planning stage.

Among the unrealized works examined in the show is the proposed wrapping of Picasso’s monumental sculpture Bust of Sylvette at New York University and the Over The River project to suspend vast swaths of silver fabric over six miles of Colorado's Arkansas River which was eventually abandoned after 25 years.

The show will also highlight some of their early experiments in wrapping objects made in the 1950s and 1960s.

Almost four decades after inventing the Slow Food movement, Italy is trying to do the same for tourism.

From March visitors to Florence will be able to buy a 72-hour pass for seven sites across the city including the Galleria dell'Accademia and the Bargello museum which are home to masterpieces including Michelangelo's sculpture of David and works by Benvenuto Cellini and Donatello.

Andreina Contessa, director of both institutions, told The Times of London she wanted to promote something different to "a very voracious form of tourism that chases iconic works in order to take a selfie with them”.

She said: "Tourists need to have time to calmly browse the offerings."

The 72-hour pass will cost $44.

Spare a thought for America's airport executives whose attempts to support the art world seem to cause them nothing but trouble.

Friday's newsletter told you about the April Bey work at Southern California's John Wayne airport that led to charges of blasphemy and now it is their Texan counterparts coming under fire.

But the team in charge of the Houston Airport system's artworks face a very different problem - the art on show is accused of failing to attract the attention of the 63 million passengers who come through it every year.

City mayor John Whitmire has called for an audit of the airport's public art program which is supported by a law requiring major construction schemes to set aside 1.75% of their budget to buy art.

It comes after journalists from local TV news channel KPRC-TV showed him footage filmed in the airport which they said showed the vast majority of travelers ignoring the artworks which include pieces by Dale Chihuly and Janavi Mahimtura Folmsbee.

Whitmire told the channel: "Quite frankly I like art, but I like parking at the airport and access and picking up the baggage more than I do art."

1 - A sixth member of a Pennsylvania crime gang has been sentenced for his role in stealing millions of dollars worth of art including a painting attributed to Jackson Pollock and another by Jasper Francis Cropsey. Joseph Atsus, 51, of Covington Township, Pennsylvania, was given four years in prison for his part in the crimes. Most of the stolen art is still missing while Cropsey's painting, Upper Hudson, was burned to avoid it being used as evidence.

2 - Andy Warhol is the star of a show at Warsaw's State Museum of Ethnography dedicated to Rusyn artists. Work by Warhol, who was born in Pittsburgh to emigrant parents from what is now Slovakia, is shown alongside paintings by Nikifor and Jerzy Nowosielski. Hundreds of thousands of people who identify as Rusyn live in eastern and central Europe.

3 - The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul has announced its shortlist for the 2026 Korea Artist Prize. Painters Lee Hai Min Sun and Jeon Hyun-sun, photographer Hong Jin-hwon and artist Lee Jung-woo each get around $34,000 to make new work that will be shown in the museum from July with the final winner getting a further $6,700 when they are announced in October.