Fracas Over Appointment of Spanish Art Center Director, A Film About the Louvre Heist, and More: Morning Links for May 28, 2026
ARTnews’s Morning Links for May 28, 2026 reports a backlash in Spain after the Galician regional government appointed Eva López Tarrío, a high school art teacher and civil servant with a PhD in Fine Arts, as director of the Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela. More than 1,400 artists, critics, gallery owners, and academics signed an open letter warning the civil-servant-only selection approach would “impoverish and politicize” the institution, and three of five CGAC advisory board members reportedly resigned in protest amid allegations of errors in López Tarrío’s CV. The roundup also notes New York Times reporting that the Trump administration’s no-bid Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool contract carried an inflated 20% profit margin and grew to $13.1 million, with $7 million in National Park Service ticket sales used to fund the pool work and $67 million in pass sales supporting multiple monument projects. It additionally highlights that French filmmaker Romain Gavras is set to adapt the $102 million Louvre heist into a film.
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This story was covered in Boycotts, Closures, and the Museum Loot Legacy