Pieces published under the Creativity’s UK editorial desk — short reports, listings and notes from across the contemporary culture scene.

The defacement of paintings has increased the cost of property insurance. Museums and gallery managers are shocked.

The attempt to destroy a Van Gogh painting by dousing it in soup and then sticking anti-oil activists to the wall looked bizarre.

But the subsequent bills that came to the museums and galleries did not please the directors and financial managers at all.