{"id":956256,"date":"2026-11-03T03:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956256\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T03:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:18:14","slug":"french-galleries-demand-art-basel-paris-compensate-early-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956256\/","title":{"rendered":"French Galleries Demand Art Basel Paris Compensate Early Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A group of French galleries have sent a letter of complaint to Art Basel Paris for closing two days early in October due to a planned protest and for failing to consult them.<\/p>\n

Workers at the Mus\u00e9e des civilisations de l\u2019Europe et de la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e (Mucem) in Marseille said they will strike tomorrow to protest the return of the museum\u2019s president today, Pierre-Olivier Costa.<\/p>\n

The District of Columbia and the state of Virginia filed a lawsuit Saturday to stop President Donald Trump from building his triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n

\t\tThe Headlines\t<\/p>\n

\n\tTHANKS FOR ASKING. A group of French galleries under the umbrella organization Comit\u00e9 Professionnel des Galeries d\u2019Art (CPGA) have sent a letter of complaint to Art Basel Paris organizers for closing two days early in October due to a planned protest and for failing to consult them, reports Monopol<\/a>. When Art Basel Paris announced they would close for the weekend of October 24 and 25, the last public days of the fair, they said it was in the interest of safety for all, given the protests planned for Saturday. However, a letter from the CPGA to the fair director, Karim Crippa, claims exhibiting galleries \u201chad not been consulted\u201d about the decision, and questioned the need to close on Sunday, calling it \u201cfar less justified.\u201d Indeed, the exhibit \u201cC\u00e9zanne et nous\u201d was open Sunday, located on the opposite side of the Grand Palais venue, which also hosts the fair. CPGA members account for over one quarter of exhibitors, many of whom are smaller-scale galleries that rely on weekend sales more than their larger, multinational counterparts. The letter further described the fair\u2019s handling of the early closure as \u201ca sign of disrespect, indeed, of contempt,\u201d and demanded \u201cappropriate compensation\u201d for the loss of business.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMARSEILLE MUSEUM MARCH. Workers at the Mus\u00e9e des civilisations de l\u2019Europe et de la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e (Mucem) in Marseille, France, said they will strike tomorrow to protest the return of the institution\u2019s president today, Pierre-Olivier Costa, reports Le Figaro<\/a>. Costa was suspended for several months while a government investigation<\/a> was looking into accusations against him of sexual and moral harassment, as well as putting the southern French city\u2019s only national museum \u201cat risk.\u201d However, Costa announced his return to AFP<\/a> on Sunday, explaining that government officials had never questioned him, and given that his four-month suspension had expired, \u201cthat also means they don\u2019t have much, or have nothing to hold against me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMARSEILLE MUSEUM MARCH. Workers at the Mus\u00e9e des civilisations de l\u2019Europe et de la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e (Mucem) in Marseille, France, said they will strike tomorrow to protest the return of the institution\u2019s president today, Pierre-Olivier Costa, reports Le Figaro<\/a>. Costa was suspended for several months while a government investigation<\/a> has been looking into accusations against him of sexual and moral harassment, as well as putting the southern French city\u2019s only national museum \u201cat risk.\u201d However, Costa announced his return to AFP<\/a> on Sunday, explaining that government officials had never questioned him, and given that his four-month suspension had expired, \u201cthat also means they don\u2019t have much, or have nothing to hold against me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tThe Digest\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe District of Columbia and the state of Virginia filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to stop President Donald Trumpfrom building a \u201cflagrantly unlawful\u201d 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. [NPR<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe European Commission is planning to lower the threat of money laundering and terrorist financing in the art market from \u201chigh\u201d to \u201cmoderate,\u201d despite a rash of museum thefts across Europe, due to \u201climited EU evidence\u201d connecting the two. [The Financial Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tLawyers for US Representative Joice Beatty (D-Ohio) claim they have records demonstrating the current administration wants to close and renovate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to hide the institution\u2019s financial decline and mismanagement since President Donald Trump took it over. [The New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Spanish artist Miquel Navarro, who was known for uniting architecture andsculpture, has died at 81. [Ara<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tNorthern California\u2019s Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, dedicated to designers Ray and Charles Eames, unveiled plans for a new museum on Birkenstock\u2019s former campus in Novato, while facing scrutiny for financial ties to billionaire Airbnb cofounder and Trump official Joe Gebbia. [The San Francisco Standard<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\t\tThe Kicker\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHEAR ME OUT. The Republic of Austria, Vienna\u2019s Albertina Museum, and the Leopold Museum Foundation filed a response Friday to amicus briefs submitted by two US senators, in which they further explain their claim that the updated Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act violates the US Constitution and the Tenth Amendment, reports ARTnews<\/a>. The three parties are defendants in a suit brought by Timothy Reif, a descendant of Fritz Gr\u00fcnbaum, a Jewish performer and collector killed in a Nazi camp in 1941. Reif is seeking the return of several artworks by Egon Schiele that he says were seized by Nazis. But the defendants dispute that account, as well as the constitutionality of the HEAR Act, which bolsters Reif\u2019s claim. The new filing counters new briefs submitted last month by the Department of Justice and Senators Richard Blumenthal and John Cornyn, which defended the HEAR Act. \u201cThis was an opportunity for my clients [the three defendants, Austria, and the Vienna institutions] to respond and explain why they respectfully disagree\u2026,\u201d said William L. Charron, their attorney, speaking to ARTnews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,9591],"class_list":["post-956256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-morning-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}