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“Can you imagine charging an Iraqi more than a Belgian to see the Code of Hammurabi, which comes from Iraq? Charging Africans extra so they can view, at the Pavillon des Sessions, objects that their countries might one day ask to have restituted?”

The problem with this Artnews piece about differential pricing at the Louvre begins with its eye-popping headline:

France to Charge Non-Europeans $10 Tax to See the Mona Lisa

!!!

White skin?

Do come in.

*****************

Turns out they mean non-EU people pay more.

Margaret Soltan, June 11, 2025 4:45AM
Posted in: it's art

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