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Back in 1970, when Art Basel was founded, there were just a handful of major fairs. Today, however, by some estimates, there are more than 300 art fairs. But even still, Art Basel remains the main fair for many of the dealers showing in Switzerland this week. David Fleiss, the cofounder of Paris’s Galerie 1900-2000, participated in the 1970 and 1971 editions of the fair, before taking a long hiatus until the ’90s. He’s been going ever since. “The fair is the fair for us.

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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Collector Bob Rennie donates 61 artworks to National Gallery of Canada, valued at $16.8 million. The Orange County Museum of Art is in talks to merge with the University of California, Irvine, and the two institutions have signed a “nonbinding, exploratory letter of intent” to that end.

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The Louvre in Paris closed on Monday, leaving visitors and tourists frustrated and confused during the start of the city’s busiest tourist season. The museum is the most popular in the world, reporting around 8.7 million visitors to its galleries last year. However, that popularity has also led the museum to a “breaking point,” the Associated Press reported Monday.

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Leonard Lauder, the son of cosmetics entrepreneurs Estée and Joseph H. Lauder and a major art philanthropist, died Saturday at the age of 92, Estée Lauder Companies announced in a press release. Lauder held the title of chairman emeritus at the company at his death, though he had previously served as president from 1972 to 1995 and CEO from 1982 to 1999. He served as chairman from 1995 to 2009.

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3 hours agoTourist caught-on-camera smashing crystal-studded ‘Van Gogh’ chair at art museumA tourist was caught-on-camera crushing a Swarovski crystal-encrusted chair inside a museum in Italy – then taking off. The Palazzo Maffei in Verona took to social media to expose the tourist's actions as he was caught sitting on the chair, causing it to collapse and fall to the ground. "The …12 hours agoDietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupidity is more dangerous than evil. He was right.