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MFA Boston Denies Targeting DEI Staff in Cutbacks, Former French Culture Minister Jack Lang Stepping Down: Morning Links for February 9, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines FACING PUBLIC BACKLASH, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has denied targeting DEI employees when it fired 33 people, including the institution’s only Muslim curator, Nadirah Mansour, only Native American curator, Marina Tyquiengco, and only Black curator, theo Tyson, reports Artnet News. After read more
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Jack Lang Steps Down from Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe After Appearing in Epstein Files
Jack Lang, the former French culture minister, stepped down as president of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris after his name surfaced in newly released Jeffrey Epstein files, according to the Guardian. Lang, who served two terms as culture minister under President François Mitterrand, resigned on Saturday amid mounting scrutiny. He had led the read more
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Christie’s Set to Sell Ringo’s Drumset, Kurt Cobain’s Guitar, and Jack Kerouac’s Famed ‘On the Road’ Scroll in $30 M. Irsay Sale
This week,highlights from Jim Irsay’s famed collectionof film, music and sportsmemorabiliaand Americana go on view at Christie’s Los Angeles ahead of theirauctionin March. It’s a 10-minute drive from the Beverly Hills Hotel where the billionaire owner of the Indianapolis Colts died last May at age 65 from an apparent cardiac arrest. Irsay took the HVAC read more
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Former French Culture Minister Jack Lang and His Daughter Caroline Lang Appear in the Epstein Files
Former French culture minister Jack Lang and his daughter, film producer Caroline Lang, are the latest art world figures revealed to have had ties with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. Correspondence between Epstein and the Langs appears in the documents published Friday by the US Department of Justice, and Caroline Lang read more
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$1 M. Jack Whitten Painting Leads Steady Sales at San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art
At the FOG Design+Art, a San Francisco art fair set across two piers at the Fort Mason Center, the tone for opening night on Thursday was set by what takes place the event’s environs. There, one can find a slew of valet drivers in white dinner jackets; they’ve returned from picking up cars belonging to read more
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