New Delhi: Two men alleged to have ‘helped’ in the Louvre heist have been arrested. But the bigger question in everyone’s minds is this. Are museums safer now?

The spectacle of the Louvre heist — a breathless, canonical moment for the art world — appears to have come to an end. While the investigation will continue to unfold and global media might set its eyes elsewhere, what transpired at the Louvre — the audaciousness of the robbery and the ease with which it was carried out — exposes critical gulfs in museum security systems. If anything, a theft of such stature should inspire a moment of reckoning for the art ecosystem across the world. Those working at the Louvre have called it inevitable .

The museum was functioning with old security infrastructure and was seeing “persis

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