The Louvre has reopened its Apollo Gallery nine months after it was the scene of its $102 million jewelry heist.

The Paris museum, led by director Christophe Leribault, has removed all the remaining exhibits to reveal the room's wall decorations and restore its "stately purpose" as a work of art in itself.

Originally designed for Louis XIV, the 61-meter-long gallery was lavishly re-decorated in the 19th century and includes a ceiling painting by Eugene Delacroix.

The jewels stolen in the October 19 raid have never been recovered though French police have made several arrests.

The fallout from the robbery, which saw the museum's security system heavily criticized, eventually cost Leribault's predecessor, Laurence des Cars, her job.

Tech billionaire Jensen Huang has donated $75 million to Vanderbilt University to build an art college on its San Francisco campus.

The Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design will open next year on a site bought from the California College of the Arts which is closing after more than a century.

Huang, who founded computer chip company Nvidia, said he was "delighted" to partner with the university in the city he called "one of the world’s great centers of creativity, innovation and culture".

He said: "Technology expands what we can build. Art and design determine why we build it. Together they shape civilization."

The number of people photographer Jem Southam estimates have seen the hundreds of sculptures left by Ray Exworth in a series of sheds at his home in Cornwall, southwest England. A new book featuring Southam's photographs of the works has been published and is available here.

Student photographer Kerstin Weiser has won this year's $3,400 Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation's Open House Prize.

Her project, called From Sandcastle to Sandcastle, saw her travel between Germany and Japan photographing playgrounds.

The jury, which included Barbara Klemm, said it was impressed by her work which used flash photography and models wearing color-coordinated clothing to create "almost abstract and graphic" images bordering on the surreal.

A rally is being held outside the Art Institute of Chicago today to protest plans to transfer cleaning staff to a private third-party firm.

Staff at the museum circulated a petition opposing the move which they described as a "devastating and unconscionable injustice" affecting 25 members of staff.

A museum spokesperson told Hyperallergic the staff were "deeply" valued, but moving them to an external contractor would "better support daily museum operations".

The museum was founded in 1879 and has been led by director James Rondeau since 2016. Its world-class collection includes works by Van Gogh, Kerry James Marshall and Georgia O'Keeffe.

1 - The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is offering visitors free admission this weekend ahead of its closure for a three-year $88 million redevelopment. The museum near Toronto said the project will give it 60% more space for shows and conservation work on its collection which includes works by Tom Thomson, Lawren Stewart Harris and Norval Morrisseau.

2 - Ferran Barenblit has been appointed chief curator of the 16th Shanghai Biennale which opens in November next year. Barcelona-based Barenblit was director of the city's museum of contemporary art from 2015 to 2021 and previously worked at Madrid's May 2 art center.

3 - Los Angeles' Oceanwide Plaza - known to locals as Graffiti Towers and recreated in a nine-foot scale model by Sayre Gomez for a recent show at the David Kordansky Gallery - has been sold in a $517 million deal that will see it cleaned up. Work to remove the graffiti tags will begin within a fortnight as part of the deal to turn the abandoned skyscrapers into apartments, a luxury hotel and a shopping center.

4 - Ann Marguerite Tartsinis has been appointed head of costume and textiles at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tartsinis, who previously worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, replaces Dilys Blum who spent four decades at the museum before retiring last year.