Louvre director Christophe Leribault can not catch a break - a year to the day since thieves stole $102 million of jewelry in broad daylight he has had to close the museum's doors because of a student protest.

It comes days after he warned the Paris museum might shut if it does not get a $834 million overhaul.

A note on its website tells would-be visitors "Due to student strikes the museum is currently closed" and with the average day bringing in around 25,000 people that is money he can not afford to lose.

Access to the museum was blocked this morning by students who said it was in "support" of the school protests which spilled over into violent scenes across the country at the weekend. It is always closed on Tuesdays and staff will be hopeful it reopens on Wednesday.

The total raised by the 26th Tehran Auction dedicated to modern and contemporary Iranian art, including $1.77 million for Parviz Tanavoli's bronze sculpture Heech which became the most expensive work ever sold at the event.

A mural made from a mixture of shoe polish and alcohol would normally be guaranteed to lower the price of a smart Manhattan apartment but not when it is by Keith Haring.

The work, said to date from around 1979 when he was studying at New York's School of Visual Arts, has not hurt the $25 million asking price of the 8,000-square-foot loft in the American Thread Building in Tribeca.

Its owner Adam Zoia told The New York Times the mural, which was rediscovered during renovation work, was "so obviously a Keith Haring" and it fits with the history of the building which was used as a student gallery in the 1970s.

1 - Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is "closed to the public until further notice" after a member of a tour group was killed when a section of roof was blown off by strong winds on Friday. The late architect's foundation said police were "aware" but "no further details will be shared out of respect for privacy and to allow officials to complete their work".

2 - Enrico Lombardi, who ran his gallery in Rome for almost 50 years, has died aged 71. His early shows included exhibitions dedicated to Lucian Freud and Wifredo Lam before he began to focus on Italian artists including Renato Guttuso, Fausto Pirandello and Renzo Vespignani.

3 - London's V&A Museum acquired a group of works from Stanislava Pinchuk’s Each apparition searches for an eye series. The installation is made up of passport-size portraits of soldiers and was acquired through the Spirit Now London Acquisition Prize 2026.

4 - Marina Abramovic's performance piece, Balkan Erotic Epic, will make its Asian premiere at the WestK Performing Arts Centre when it opens in Hong Kong next year. The building is part of the city's West Kowloon cultural district which already includes the M+ museum and the Hong Kong Palace Museum.

5 - Art Basel is remaining in Miami Beach after mayor Steven Meiner and city commissioners voted 6-1 to approve a new five-year contract to 2031. The New York Times reported the city agreed to reduce its its annual rent from nearly $1 million to $500,000 amid rumors the fair might move to Las Vegas.

6 - Italian curator Francesco Bonami has been named artistic director of the GES-2 House of Culture, the Moscow art space sited across from the Kremlin. Bonami, a former Venice Biennale curator, has joined the institution set up by Russian-Israeli billionaire collector Leonid Mikhelson.