An Italian museum has called on patrons to “respect art” after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of glittering crystals. Footage released by the Palazzo Maffei, in Verona, shows a man and woman taking pictures of each other while pretending to sit on the so-called “Van Gogh” chair. The man then...
Two visitors were filmed sitting on, and breaking, a piece of artwork at Palazzo Maffei museum in Verona, Italy. CCTV footage of Palazzo Maffei captures the moment the ornate chair collapses, and the man and woman quickly leave. The “Van Gogh” chair by Nicola Bolla (Saluzzo 1963) is a piece of art made out of...
Getty Images Bill Pallot was considered the top scholar of French 18th Century chairs Two French antiques experts have been convicted of forging historic chairs that they claimed had once belonged to French royals such as Marie Antoinette. Georges “Bill” Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were given four months behind bars as well as longer suspended...
Paul Seddon Political reporter Bloomberg Sarah Pochin became Reform UK’s fifth MP at a by-election last month Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf says it was “dumb” for the party’s newest MP to call on Sir Keir Starmer to ban the burka. Sarah Pochin – who won last month’s Runcorn and Helsby by-election – urged the...
The new interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has told the BBC she will do “whatever it takes” to reform the embattled legal appeals body. Dame Vera Baird KC said the CCRC seemed “incapable of learning from their mistakes” and she wanted to “root out” the culture causing them. She has has...
In April, Nandy said the 68-year-old sports media rights executive was the “outstanding candidate” to fill the position, despite not being on the original three-person shortlist. She has now removed herself from the final decision, delegating responsibility to the Sports Minister. Last month, Kogan told MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMS) during...
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chair Richard Thompson has been reappointed until September 2028. The ECB’s non-executive directors chose unanimously to extend Thompson’s tenure, which had been set to expire in September 2027. Since being appointed in 2022, Thompson has overseen the sale of the franchises in The Hundred and presided over the Independent...
The government’s preferred choice as chair of English football’s new independent regulator contributed money to the leadership campaigns of Sir Keir Starmer and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy. David Kogan told MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee that he was being “utterly transparent” by declaring donations which “hadn’t been discovered by the press”. The...
A senior figure from South Africa’s ruling ANC party has defended his country’s sovereignty amid growing tensions with the US over race relations and a new land law. “We are a free country, we’re a sovereign country. We’re not a province of the United States and that sovereignty will be defended,” ANC National Chair Gwede...
Getty Images US stocks and the dollar plunged again as President Donald Trump intensified his attacks on US central bank boss calling him “a major loser” for not lowering interest rates. In a social media post, Trump called on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates “pre-emptively” to help boost the economy, saying...
Oh, David Hogg – God bless his little pointy head bobbling along on a pencil neck, as it all wobbles precariously atop a sunken and concave chest cavity, with wee little stick arms and tiny fists thrusting into the air for balance. He never stops delivering the goods. Where, once he was an annoying, precocious...
Outgoing UK Sport chair Dame Katherine Grainger says it is “frustrating” that Britain is not staging more major events over the next decade, warning of “a big gap”. “We risk public investment, we risk global reputation, we risk opportunities for athletes,” the head of the funding agency told BBC Sport. The former Olympic rowing champion...