Announcement of the closure, which is effective June 30, comes two months after DePaul University laid off 114 full-time and part-time staff. Administrators cited financial troubles due to a significant drop in international graduate student enrollment, increased demand for financial aid and the rising costs of benefits. - WBEZ (Chicago)
Charlotte Meyer’s grandfather, who had a sharp eye, picked them up inexpensively back when etchings weren’t highly valued, and they remained in her family’s safe for decades. When she had time during the COVID lockdowns, she found the works and later took them to the nearby Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, where they were authenticated. - ARTnews
This shift to the West Coast has long been driven by the region’s many art schools, including the ArtCenter, California Institute of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design and the art department at the University of California, Los Angeles. - The Art Newspaper
The home of the city’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works will be led by 57-year-old Annick Lemoine, currently director of the Petit Palais. She succeeds Sylvain Amic, who died suddenly in August 2025.” - Le Monde (in English)
Why the resignation of director Laurence des Cars hit so hard, the background of new director Christophe Leribault, the long list of problems which the world’s busiest museum is facing, and why President Macron is unusually invested in all this. - AP
In the leaked transcripts, Hutzel reportedly told employees that while the school’s administration might survive the reputational fallout, the college itself could become a target of elected officials with the power to allocate—or withhold—state funding. - ARTnews
“(Christophe) Leribault, 62, is an 18th-century-art historian who previously led the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, both in Paris, before taking over at Versailles in 2024. ... He was deputy director of the Louvre’s department of graphic arts from 2006 to 2012.” - The Guardian
“According to the Woodruff Arts Center, which oversees both the High and two other Atlanta art institutions, High Museum COO Brady Lum resigned after an independent review was triggered by the discovery of ‘financial irregularities’ and then identifying $600,000 specifically that was stolen.” The case has been referred to federal prosecutors. - 11 Alive (Atlanta)
After months plagued by strikes over chronic understaffing, damage caused by a deteriorating and expensive-to-maintain building, discovery of a years-long ticket-fraud scheme, complaints of inadequate security, and the broad-daylight theft of French crown jewels, Laurence des Cars has stepped down, effective immediately. - AP
“Xalet del Catllaràs, an early 1900s building tucked away in the mountain forests of Catalonia, Spain, has now been officially recognized as (Antoni Gaudí’s) design.” - Artnet
As funding pressures deepen across the sector, and running costs increase, a policy once treated as untouchable is now under renewed scrutiny. - The Guardian
A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies. - The Guardian
Looks like nothing except defend the jury’s independence — and say that “the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first week of March, would be delayed slightly.” - The New York Times
The museum “covers the entire history of city parks within a 6-by-10-foot room. … Because the museum capacity is five people and the pent-up demand goes back 130 years, the opening was intentionally kept soft.” - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
