The number of people who have attended events in Bradford, in the north of England, as part of its year as UK City of Culture. It hosted the 2025 Turner Prize as well as a drone show based on artworks by David Hockney who was born and raised there.

The search for the Louvre's stolen $102 million jewels is ongoing, as is the search for a scapegoat for the whole sorry affair.

This week the director of the Paris museum, Laurence des Cars, and her predecessor Jean-Luc Martinez were both hauled over the coals by the French Senate's Cultural Affairs Committee.

They were both criticized for the handover between them which saw warnings about the museum's vulnerability to a break-in down-played and ignored with one senator talking of "a kind of continuity in vagueness".

Others were more direct with des Cars taking the worst of it including one Senator asking her "Isn't it time for you to resign?" Another simply said: "Why are you still here?"

Meanwhile the troubles mount at the beleaguered institution with its website today warning visitors some rooms are closed due to the effects of a staff walkout in protest at pay and conditions.

Work by Juno Calypso, William Hogarth and Arvida Bystrom will all feature in an examination of The Cult of Beauty in Barcelona next year.

The show at the CCCB arts center is a "new adaptation" of the exhibition curated by Janice Li at London's Wellcome Collection in 2023.

It runs from May 20 to November 8 and is part of the center's 2026 program which also includes a show of 250 works inspired by the atomic age with artists including Yoko Ono, Nancy Spero and Hilma af Klint featuring in the Spanish city.

1 - Sotheby's last sale of the year at its new Breuer Building HQ in New York was another success for the auction house. The white-glove sale - meaning every lot sold - of the collection of Hollywood royalty Bing and Kathryn Crosby made $6.7 million with a $1.2 million painting by Alfred Munnings leading the auction.

2 - Zadie Smith's writing about artists from Kara Walker and Toyin Ojih Odutola to Celia Paul is among the books recommended by former US President Barack Obama this year. The collection of essays, Dead and Alive, is among his 11 books of the year as is his wife Michelle's celebration of fashion, The Look.

3 - Actor David Oyelowo and director Ava DuVernay have teamed up again to work on a new film called Heist of Benin. The pair, who worked on the Oscar-winning civil rights drama Selma, said the film was a thriller set in London "that intertwines art, love and restitution”.