A battle is looming over the proposed loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK after more than 40,000 people signed a French petition branding it a "crime against heritage".

The loan, which would see the work go on show in London's British Museum for 10 months from next year, was announced with great fanfare by French President Emmanuel Macron a month ago.

The petition says the 70-meter-long tapestry, which depicts the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066, is too fragile to cross the channel and demands it stays in France.

It has been backed by Isabelle Attard, a former director of the Bayeux Tapestry Museum, who described the loan as being "as dangerous as it is absurd", but the museum's current curator Antoine Verney said the British Museum would have "the same conservation requirements" as its French counterpart.

The tapestry will have to be moved at some point as the museum which normally houses it closes in September for a two-year renovation scheme.

The price Kanye West paid for his Tadao Ando-designed Malibu home in 2021. The house, a rare example of the architect's work outside his native Japan, was sold by the musician last year for $21 million and recently went back on the market for $34.9 million.

How many statues of Sylvester Stallone are too many? That is the question being asked in the streets of Philadelphia.

The Pennsylvania city, where Stallone's classic film Rocky is set, currently has two with another on the way but the real trouble is being caused by the version unveiled at the top of steps leading to its Museum of Art that was only meant to be in place for December but is still there eight months on.

The steps famously feature in a landmark scene in the film where Stallone's character runs up them during his training and are even known locally as the Rocky steps but that has not stopped the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper asking if Stallone intends to ever take it back?

So far the actor and the statue's creator, A.Thomas Schomberg, have stayed silent on the issue even when it was announced another statue of Stallone as the fictional boxer is about to be installed at the city's airport. A third statue is permanently on show near the bottom of the museum steps.

San Francisco's De Young Museum is opening its revamped Native American galleries next Tuesday having worked with a team of predominantly Native curators on the project.

The four galleries will be home to contemporary art as well as work dating back hundreds of years from its permanent collection.

Among the exhibits are ancient Mayan art and fragments of a mural from the Mexican city of Teotihuacan which predated the Aztec Empire by centuries and was a major metropolis in the first half of the first millennium.

There is also a gallery dedicated to the art of Indigenous Americans in California and an exhibition of work by contemporary artist Rose B. Simpson which will coincide with the opening of the renovated spaces.

Korean-Japanese artist Kwak Duck-Jun has died aged 88.

Born in the Japanese city of Kyoto to Korean parents, his work included performance art, video, printmaking and photography examining ideas of identity and belonging.

Notable works include his Weight-scale series featuring heavy stones placed on broken scales and his collage works, President and Kwak, where he pasted images of American presidents onto his self-portraits.

His work can be seen in museums including Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art and the Seoul Museum of Art.

1 - The Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture - Kazakhstan’s first independent public cultural institution - opens on September 5. The institution, which will host exhibitions, installations and lectures, is based in a former cinema in Almaty which has been transformed by British architect Asif Khan.

2 - Painter Mickalene Thomas has been accused of harassment and exploitation by her former fiancee Racquel Chevremont. Court documents seen by The Independent show Chevremont wants $10 million to settle the case. A 2016 portrait by Thomas of Chevremont sold for $1.8 million at Christie’s in 2021.

3 - More than 150,000 people have visited the latest show at the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris - double its average attendance. Beloved Suburbs features 200 photographs, paintings and installations challenging the view of the city's suburbs, or banlieues, which are often written off as poverty-stricken crime hotspots.