The Louvre’s new director is inheriting a troubled, traumatised museum—can he repair the damage? • Raja Ravi Varma Painting Sells for $17.9 M., New Auction Record for Indian Art • Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Painting, Now Owned by Ken Griffin, to Go on View in Miami This Summer

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The Louvre’s new director is inheriting a troubled, traumatised museum—can he repair the damage?
The Musée du Louvre appointed art historian Christophe Leribault, 62, as director on 25 February, tasking him—according to French President...

Raja Ravi Varma Painting Sells for $17.9 M., New Auction Record for Indian Art
Raja Ravi Varma’s Yashoda and Krishna (ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 million at Saffronart in Delhi on April 1, setting a new auction record for an...

Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Painting, Now Owned by Ken Griffin, to Go on View in Miami This Summer
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” an exhibition of about 10 Jean-Michel Basquiat works owned by...

David Nott’s Textured Abstractions Go Digital With LG Gallery+
Artnet News reported that artist David Nott’s textured abstract works are being presented digitally through LG Gallery+, expanding access to his...

Artist Ali Cherri files war crimes complaint in France over Israeli airstrike in Beirut that killed his parents
French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri filed a war-crimes complaint in France on 2 April with the French War Crimes Unit over an Israeli airstrike in...

Uffizi Museum in Florence Denies Severity of Security Breaches Resulting From February Cyber Attack
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence denied claims that a February 1 cyber attack gave hackers sweeping access to its systems, after Corriere della Sera...

Canada returns 11 artefacts to Turkey in the first repatriation between the countries
Canada returned 11 Ottoman-era artefacts to Turkey—seven manuscript pages, two printed-work pages, and two modern calligraphy works—in what Turkey...

Bic Family Heirs File Lawsuit for Return of Fra Angelico Painting ‘Stolen’ by Chauffeur
Heirs to the Bic family fortune sued in New York on March 19 for the return of a Fra Angelico painting, Saint Sixtus (ca. 1453–55), alleging it...

Human Rights Foundation Petitions UN on Behalf of Jailed Chinese Dissident Artist Gao Zhen
The Human Rights Foundation filed an April petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention seeking a finding that Chinese dissident...

German Provocateur Artist Sentenced to 8.5 Years in Prison in Russia After Mocking Putin
German sculptor and illustrator Jacques Tilly, 62, was sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court to 8.5 years in prison on charges of spreading...

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