Crypto billionaire art collector Justin Sun will no doubt be delighted to regard himself as a trendsetter, but staff at the Centre Pompidou-Metz were probably less pleased when a visitor followed his lead and chewed on Maurizio Cattelan's banana-based artwork.

Sun famously forked out $6.2 million for the work called Comedian - consisting of a banana taped to a wall - before promptly eating it in front of the cameras.

A visitor to the French museum did the same thing this weekend. This time the suspect did not claim it was a piece of performance art, unlike the artist who started the conspicuous consumption at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019 when the work was first unveiled.

The museum said security "rapidly and calmly intervened" and the work was "reinstalled within minutes", adding: "As the fruit is perishable, it is regularly replaced according to instructions from the artist."

Cattelan himself was less than impressed, telling French newspaper Le Monde he was disappointed the person did not also eat the skin and the tape.

The estimated number of date paintings made by Japanese artist On Kawara. He started doing them in January 1966 and painted the last one the year he died in 2014, but the exact number is unknown as he destroyed the canvas if he had not finished it by the end of the day. Learn more about the works here.

Laure Prouvost's mutant three-headed seabird is one of the stars of the show at this year's Folkestone Triennial.

The event in the town on England's south coast brings together 18 artists including Emeka Ogboh, Prabhakar Pachpute and the duo Cooking Sections who were all asked to respond to the question How Lies the Land?

Prouvost's sculpture is one of three linking the English seaside town with the Belgian and French coasts at De Panne and Dunkirk.

The triennial, which attracted almost quarter of a million visitors last time, runs to October 19. Each edition sees new works join the town’s collection of contemporary public art.

The former home of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi - now a museum dedicated to his work - reopened this weekend after a project restored its rooms to how they were in his lifetime.

His books are back on the shelves of his library, clothes still hang in wardrobes and the walls feature reproductions of his signature humble, domestic still-lifes.

The house near Bologna was also home to his younger sister, Maria Teresa Morandi, who left it to the local authority when she died in 1994 and asked it to be preserved and open to visitors.

The Louvre has a women problem - it does not have enough of them.

The bitter irony is the Paris museum which is home to the most famous female portrait of all time - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa - has barely any work by female artists.

One feminist art trail estimated only 15 works from its permanent collection of 35,000 were by women, but director Laurence des Cars is trying to make amends.

Des Cars, the first female director of the world's busiest museum in 228 years, told the Sunday Times she could not "change history" but there were ways of "addressing that question".

She said: "In the spring of 2027 I’m programming an exhibition on the theme of amazons, ancient and modern — from Greek women warriors to powerful women today. It will be a fascinating journey."

There is no word yet on which modern-day amazons will be portrayed but do not be surprised if you see France's current Culture Minister Rachida Dati - she is a vital ally in des Cars' planned multi-million dollar renovation of the overcrowded museum, which has leaking roofs and a basement at risk of flooding.

1 - A report by the Houston Arts Alliance found $15.2 million in government spending on public art generated $627 million for the Texan city's wider economy. The initial investment of public money comes from Houston’s Hotel Occupancy Tax paid by visitors to the city.

2 - The first major European exhibition of the work of architect-turned-fashion designer Virgil Abloh will open on what would have been his 45th birthday on September 30. Hundreds of sketches, designs and outfits will feature in Virgil Abloh: The Codes at the Grand Palais in Paris.

3 - History has been made at the oldest and largest public museum in the United States after the New York State Museum appointed its first female leader in its nearly 200-year existence. The new director of the museum, based in Albany, is Jennifer Saunders who previously spent more than a decade as director of Washington State History Museum.