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THE LOUVRE\u2019S NEW LEASE ON LIFE<\/strong>. France\u2019s minister of culture has announced the winners of an architecture competition to renovate the\u00a0Louvre<\/strong>\u00a0and build a new room to house the\u00a0Mona Lisa<\/em>, reports\u00a0Le Figaro<\/em>. The winning designers of the project, known as the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance, are\u00a0STUDIOS Architecture<\/strong>, a firm that was founded in San Francisco and is now based in Paris, and the New York\u2013based Selldorf<\/strong>Architects<\/strong>, which recently did the Frick Collection\u2019s renovation. The French agency\u00a0BASE<\/strong>\u00a0will spearhead landscaping and urban design. The architecture competition was delayed because it was criticized for being too costly and unnecessary following the October theft of France\u2019s crown jewels from the Louvre. However, the Louvre\u2019s new president,\u00a0Christophe Leribault,<\/strong>\u00a0and France\u2019s culture minister have argued that the project will be reoriented to give greater emphasis on upgrading the museum\u2019s outdated security and safety systems and preserving the former royal palace\u2019s leaking, aging building structure. A\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0sums up this approach: \u201cRepair and transform, that is the dual objective.\u201d The renovation is expected to cost 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion), and will begin by 2028.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tDelayed by war, Art Dubai\u2019s scaled-back wrapped over the weekend. It was \u201ca reflection of our collective resilience,\u201d according to\u00a0Vilma Jurkute<\/strong>, executive director of Dubai\u2019s cultural district,\u00a0Alserkal<\/strong>. [The Art Newspaper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n Sotheby\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0sold 93 percent of the 350 lots offered during its Friday day sales, leading to near-record sales totals. [Puck<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA new exhibition at the\u00a0Shoah Memorial<\/strong>\u00a0in Paris reveals newly discovered photographs of the first roundup of Jews in France on May 14, 1941. Among them are chilling images of families and couples forced apart. [The New York Times<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tChina hopes France\u2019s new law on colonial-era looted art will help it recover treasures stolen from the\u00a0Old Summer Palace<\/strong>\u00a0in 1860 by French and British troops. [RFI<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tTurner Prize\u2013winning artist\u00a0Keith Tyson<\/strong>\u00a0is donating \u00a3250,000 ($334,500) toward Oxford university\u2019s next Savilian chair in astronomy. [The Financial Times<\/strong>]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cGET YOUR KICKS<\/strong>\u00a0on Route 66,\u201d as\u00a0Nat King Cole<\/strong>\u00a0crooned. Those words have taken on a timely new meaning as the famous American highway approaches its 100th anniversary in November. The occasion was as good a reason as any for\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0reporter Christopher Reynolds to go looking for said kicks, on what he writes is no mere road, but an \u201cAmerican artifact.\u201d Reynolds drives the entire stretch, through eight states and dozens of small towns from Chicago to Santa Monica in 17 days. He experiences its \u201ccuriosities and paradoxes\u201d along the way, from the\u00a0Cadillac Ranch<\/strong>, a 1970s art installation sculpture that invites visitors to participate with spray painting; to an Art Deco former gas station turned caf\u00e9 and inn; to old, giant fiberglass space cowboys advertising for Buck Atom\u2019s Cosmic Curios. There are also visitors from all over the world. \u201cYou never know what language or accent you\u2019re going to hear,\u201d says\u00a0Rhys Martin<\/strong>, a manager for the\u00a0National Trust for Historic Preservation<\/strong>\u2019s Preserve Route 66 initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/trump-white-house-ballroom-art-dubai-morning-links-1234785830\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2276250239.jpg?w=1024″] THE LOUVRE\u2019S NEW LEASE ON LIFE. France\u2019s minister of culture has announced the winners of an architecture competition to renovate the\u00a0Louvre\u00a0and build a new room to house the\u00a0Mona Lisa, reports\u00a0Le Figaro. The winning designers of the project, known as the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance, are\u00a0STUDIOS Architecture, a firm that was founded in San […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1942550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}