Visitor shatters £6,000 art work

Gallery-going is not usually a perilous experience, unless you lose your balance near a 9ft ceramic totem called Christina. Only one thing is going to happen and it did. It smashed.
The £6,000 sculpture was part of an exhibit in a display at the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition curated by Tracey Emin, who described the work [...]

£84m paintings stolen in ’spectacular’ Swiss raid

Four paintings by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Degas and Monet worth an estimated SFR180m (£84m) have been stolen from a museum in Switzerland, police said today.
Zurich police said Cezanne’s Boy in the Red Waistcoat, Monet’s Poppy Field at Vetheuil, Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter, by Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh’s Blooming Chestnut Branches were stolen. [...]