In brief: Jeff Koons exhibition causes a stir

Against considerable opposition, Jeff Koons's exhibition of modern sculptures - including a vast aluminium lobster and a 7ft red heart wrapped in a ribbon - went on show today at the Palace of Versailles. As one of the few supportive art observers in Paris told The First Post, "Marie Antoinette would have loved his work. After all, she was the queen of extravagance and kitsch in her time"....... The Manchester guitar band Elbow won the Mercury Prize on Tuesday for their album The Seldom Seen Kid. "It just feels great, very unexpected," said lead singer Guy Garvey (pictured). "You could look at it in the same way as certain Bedouin tribes look at a bowl of milk. Something that doesn't occur very often, but tastes all the sweeter for that" .............As scientists fiddle around testing the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Stephen Hawking, the world’s best-known living physicist, calculates the chances of a black hole emerging at less than one per cent. Indeed, such is his scepticism that he has a long-standing £50 bet with Professor Gordy Kane, of the Michigan University, that it will not happen…………... Oasis have rescheduled one of their concerts in Ontario, Canada, after Noel Gallagher was hurt by a fan on stage on Sunday at the V Festival in Toronto. A statement posted on the band's website revealed the star had suffered "bruising to his ribs and hip" after he was pushed during his set .............Damien Hirst claims that "someone in a gallery in New York told me the other day that my signature is worth $350... So that's, what, about £200? That means if I sign a cheque in a restaurant and it's for £150 the cheque is actually worth more than the bill comes to" .............. A pair of Michael Jackson’s pants have gone up for sale on eBay with a reserve price of $1m. The 28in-waist Calvin Klein briefs have a grisly provenance: they were are still in an evidence bag sealed with police tape after they were taken as evidence in his 2003 child abuse case……………