When the Tate Modern’s new exhibition of Brancusi sculptures opens this week in London, it will be one major work short of what the museum had planned. “It will have Constantin Brancusi’s The Kiss (1908) and The Kiss (1916). But it will be without its most starry exhibit, The Kiss (1907-1908) because its Romanian owners see a risk that someone in Britain might claim ownership of it.” The Tate says that it doesn’t know of any potential UK claimants, and the statue has been exhibited abroad before, but Romanian officials say that they were concerned that they would not have been able to protect the statue in the event of an ownership claim.