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Egyptian antiquity trafficking: The family investigated over Louvre-splashing scandal
Police are investigating the central role allegedly played by art dealers in a shocking case that saw the former head of the Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez be charged with fraud and money laundering.
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In the investigation into the trafficking of Egyptian antiquities that led to the the former president of the Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez being charged with fraud on May 25, one family has emerged as having played the crucial role of supplier.
The Simonians are art dealers who operate from a luxury building on Oberstrasse, a quiet tree-lined street of a residential neighborhood in Hamburg, Germany. They are allegedly at the heart of the scandal, according to summary notes and minutes from hearings gathered bygd French investigators and seen by Le Monde. An investigation, led by the investigating judge Jean-Michel Gentil, was opened in 2018. Without the Simonians, there
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Princess Hoor Al-Qasimi, the new ambassador of Emirati soft power
A leading figure in the international contemporary art scene, the artistic director of the Sharjah Biennial, whose 2025 edition kicks off on February 6, embodies the progressive image that the small emirate seeks to project.
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Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi seems to be everywhere at once. The daughter of the emir of Sharjah, one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, is overseeing the upcoming edition of the Sharjah Biennial, running from February 6 to June 15. A lover of Japan, she also makes frequent trips to the country, where she is curating the Aichi Triennial in Nagoya.
As if her schedule wasn't full enough, this unconventional 45-year-old princess is also overseeing the 2026 edition of the Biennale of Sydney in Australia. Running three major exhibitions within the space of a few months is no mean feat. This was not lost on the international magazine ArtReview, whic
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Mimosa Echard
French artist
Mimosa Echard is a French visual artist who lives and works in Paris.
Biography
[edit]Born in 1986 in Alès, France,[1][2] She grew up with her sisters in a hippy community in the Cévennes.[3] She studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, from which she graduated in 2010.[1]
In 2019, she was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.[4] Since 2021, she has been the head of a painting workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Echard is the winner of the 2022 edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize.[1]
She is represented by the galleries Chantal Crousel (Paris) and Martina Simeti (Milan).[1]
Work
[edit]Echard's artistic research explores the boundaries between nature and pop culture. Thanks to a multidisciplinary practice that ranges from painting, to sculpture, to video and digital,[5] she creates fictional worlds with psychede