Paris Resignation, Scandal Shadows the Art World
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It is Monday, February ninth, two thousand twenty-six. Let’s dive in.
Jack Lang has stepped down from his role at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe after appearing in documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein, according to ARTnews. The report notes that Lang’s name surfaced in the so-called Epstein files, and that he resigned from the Paris arts institute in the wake of the controversy. Beyond that, ARTnews does not say Lang has been charged or convicted in connection with Epstein, and it does not describe any official investigation opened by the French government. Lang is identified as a longtime French cultural figure, and his departure now puts attention on the leadership of the Institut du Monde Arabe, a major Paris institution focused on Arab cultures through exhibitions and programming, as it moves forward after the resignation.
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