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Louvre Museum Rolls Out Emergency Security Measures Following Heist

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https://www.sfaaat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-2168584158-1.jpg The Louvre in Paris. Photo Graham Denholm/Getty Images Nearly a month after the theft of the French crown jewels that captured global attention, the Louvre Museum announced several emergency security measures. On Friday, the Board of Directors of the Louvre Museum met to discuss the emergency measures concerning the museum’s security. The meeting came …

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Louvre Security Issues Will Take ‘Several’ Years to Fix, State Audit Finds

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https://www.sfaaat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2241971037-1.jpg Police at the Louvre on Sunday, October 19. Photo Kiran Ridley/Getty Images The French national audit has published its report on the Louvre‘s security, excerpts of which were leaked to press shortly after a trove of crown jewel were stolen from the museum. The report, known as the Cour des Comptes, found that only …

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Maurizio Cattelan Awarded the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie 

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Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled, (1999). Photo Zeno Zotti, Courtesy Maurizio Cattelan Archive This year’s Preis der Nationalgalerie (Prize of the National Gallery), administered by Berlin’s Nationalgalerie, has been awarded to artist Maurizio Cattelan. Every two years, the prize goes to an influential contemporary artist, who receives a solo exhibition of their work at the German institution. …

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LACMA Declines to Voluntarily Recognize Union Formed by Hundreds of Workers

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LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 13: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Getty Images Los Angeles County Museum of Art leadership has declined to voluntarily recognize LACMA United, the union that hundreds of its staff voted to form last week, opting instead to …

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Timothée Chalamet Visited Michael Heizer’s ‘City’ for Vogue Photoshoot

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Timothee Chalamet in Rome in May. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images In a restless and ping-ponging profile for Vogue, actor Timothée Chalamet paid a visit to one of the most mystique-intensive artworks of this or any century: Michael Heizer’s monumental Land art installation City. The work, measuring a mile-and-a-half long by a half-mile wide …

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V&A East Museum Will Open in London’s Olympic Park in April 2026

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The V&A East Storehouse opened in May 2025 in London. England. Photo Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has announced an opening date for the newest branch of its museum. The five-story building, designed by the Irish architecture firm O’Donnell + Tuomey, will open to the public on Apr. 18, 2026. The …

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Legendary ‘Florentine Diamond,’ Lost for a Century, Found in a Vault in Canada

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Charles I with his wife Empress Zita circa 1916. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the Habsburg …

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The Studio Museum in Harlem Is Officially One of the Few US Museums to Own a Basquiat Painting

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bayou, 1984. Alex Greenberger/ARTnews Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building to the press on Thursday, revealing a multitude of treasures that have entered its holdings since its closure in 2018—including the first Jean-Michel Basquiat painting to join the museum’s collection. The …

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Neanderthals May Have Created Ochre Tools for Drawing, New Study Finds

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Four views of a modified ochre fragment. D’Errico et al. 2025, Science Advances A recent analysis of ochre fragments from several Neanderthal sites indicated that Neanderthals used ochre for drawing and marking surfaces. It has been long-believed that Neanderthals used the iron-rich pigment to adorn their bodies, clothing, and surfaces. Many ancient civilizations, for example, …

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V&A East to Open with Gen Z in Mind, Calls for US Museums to Return Nazi-Looted Artworks Grow Louder, Sotheby’s Selling Manny Davidson Collection: Morning Links for November 5, 2025.

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https://www.sfaaat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/VA.jpg Built for Gen Z: The new V&A East is now open. AFP via Getty Images The Headlines A MUSEUM FOR GEN Z. Gus Casely-Hayford, director of the new V&A East, wants London’s long-awaited cultural hub to spark creative passion in Gen Z visitors when it opens in the spring, he told the Guardian. “As …

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