Here are this week’s AJ highlights.
It was a week of exposure — literal and figurative. In Paris, a CNN report revealed that the Louvre’s security passwords once included “LOUVRE.” The Washington Post pondered whether the Mona Lisa should get her own bunker. In Moscow, The New York Times described Russian publishers navigating censorship “like Minesweeper.” In Seattle, Bloomberg chronicled a civic gamble: an $800 million waterfront park meant to reconnect the city with Puget Sound. Britain’s Guardian caught arts educators in rare optimism, as England moved to undo a decade of cuts. And in music, The Conversation observes that record labels are now embracing the very AI companies they once sued.
All of this week’s stories below.






