Egypt plans to set up a security control room to monitor all museums after the theft of a $55 million Vincent van Gogh painting in Cairo, Zahi Hawass, head of the country’s antiquities agency said today. Culture Minister Faruq Hosni also has formed a committee to review security measures after the theft at the Mohamed [...]

‘I’m working harder than ever’ … self-portrait of David Bailey with his sculpture Dead Andy. Photograph: David Bailey Quite recently, David Bailey decided to make a sculpture of his old friend Andy Warhol. In his studio on Dartmoor, he took a tin can, filled it with beans and then took some more beans to sculpt [...]

Manuel Acevedo’s “WTC: Tropism,” one of the artist’s concepts for ground zero, on view at the Bronx River Art Center. For nearly 25 years, the Bronx River Art Center has been organizing exhibitions, art classes and public school programs out of a funky, century-old building in a battered neighborhood called West Farms. Beginning in September, [...]

Larry Salander, whose clients included John McEnroe and Robert De Niro Lawrence Salander, 61, was given the maximum sentence of six to 18 years and ordered to pay more than $114 million (£71 million) in restitution. In what prosecutors said was one of New York’s biggest ever art frauds, he admitted in March to an [...]

British artist Antony Gormley poses for photographs with one of his sculptures as part of the ‘Horizon Field’ project in Lech-Oberlech, Austria, 30 July 2010. On Saturday 31 July, the hundredth figure by leading British sculptor, Antony Gormley was lowered into place by helicopter to launch the artist’s unique installation, Horizon Field, in the mountains [...]