The Louvre, Orsay and two other Paris museums to close on 24 October because of demonstrations

On 24 October the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de l'Orangerie and the National Picasso Museum in Paris will close. The museums took this decision because of demonstrations planned for that day.

The Art Basel Paris contemporary art fair also announced that it would close today, 23 October, at 19:00, although it was due to run at the Grand Palais until Sunday. The sculptor Alicja Kwade removed in advance her four-metre sculpture "Elevation of Worlds" [literally "The Raising of Worlds"], which stood outside the Grand Palais as part of the fair's public programme.

Private foundations and commercial galleries are closing too. The Cartier Foundation will not be open on Saturday and Sunday, while the Louis Vuitton Foundation will close on Saturday. The Gagosian, Esther Schipper and Perrotin galleries, which are also taking part in Art Basel Paris, have announced closure on Saturday.

The national artists' trade union SNAP-CGT had intended to hold a rally on Saturday outside the Grand Palais against Art Basel, over the privatisation of culture and the art market that accompanies the country's turn to the right

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