In this week's episode, host Adam Green speaks with arts and culture journalist Dale Berning Sawa, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, and on her Substack at daleberningsawa.substack.com, about the shocking theft at the Louvre that has captivated the art world. Dale brings us up to speed on the latest developments in the investigation and explores the deeper questions the heist has raised, including how museums can balance public access with protecting their collections, why security systems failed, and what this reveals about the evolving role of museum staff and technology. Together they discuss what this high-profile theft says about museum culture today and what lessons institutions everywhere should take from it.
