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Valuable artwork including an £80,000 Banksy portrait was stolen from Kate Moss's home, it was reported today.
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With yesterday's theft of £86 million worth of art from Paris' Museum of Modern Art being called called the "heist of the century," The Independent Online looks back at the major art thefts of the 20th Century.
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Phyllida Barlow + Nairy Baghramian
(Serpentine Gallery, London)
Two contemporary sculptors in a dynamic cheese-and-chalk matching: fat, spare; rough, smooth; sticky, polished; raw, techno; messy, pure?
(020 7402 6075) to 13 Jun
Chad McCail: Systemic
(Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland)
A retrospective of the Scottish political image-maker, with visionary posters depicting utopian dreams, and dystopian diagrams of human programming.
(0191 514 1235) to 3 Jul
Agnes Martin
(Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge)
American visionary minimalist: her faint and wavering hand-drawn grids of lines, elusive bands of colour, pursue silence and serenity.
(01223 748100) to 11 Jul
Theo Jansen
(Spacex, Exeter)
The Dutch artist and engineer, known for his kinetic art, especially his strandbeests – beach animals mechanical, wind-powered walking skeletal structures.
(01392 431786) to 3 Jul
Angela de la Cruz
(Camden Arts Centre, London)
Canvases as 3D casualties: “One day I took the cross bar out and the painting bent. From that moment on, I looked at the painting as an object.”
(020 7472 5500) to 30 May