Since her arrival at the French Ministry of Culture, Catherine Pégard has been formidably effective… at obituaries. We regularly receive reports of her sadness (sometimes great, sometimes deep, more…
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This is another remarkable acquisition by the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris. The only known…
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An elegant, expressive and dynamic bronze has thus returned to the city of Amiens during the recent…
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The Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles has now been…
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Yesterday, Wednesday 7 October, the Paris City Council passed a resolution proposed by the Paris au…
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The delightful terracotta by Falguière (ill. 1 and 2), which attracted considerable attention at…
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Readers of La Tribune de l’Art are familiar with our love of Art Deco. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de…
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The North Wind is blowing across the world. Long confined to the margins of European art history, Scandinavian and Finnish artists active around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries have been…
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We first wrote about the château du prince Charles, also called La Favorite, a small monument near the far end of the grounds of the château de Lunéville, in 2010, to denounce its plight. Sold by the…
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Il fallait un coup d’éclat pour célébrer l’action de l’indispensable Société des Amis de Versailles, heureuse destinataire d’un récent legs, exclusivement fléché vers le remeublement du château.…
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Dimanche 4 octobre, la SVV Alexandre Landre devait disperser, à Paris, les « Collections du Château de Villebourgeon & à divers ». Les deux premiers lots ont attiré l’attention des défenseurs du…
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We have on several occasions discussed the creation in Paris of a new remarkable heritage site, which would complement the two already in existence: the Marais and the one covering part of the 7th…
In a recent interview on France Info (at 00:51), the Minister of Culture had the audacity to claim that "heritage funding has doubled over the last ten years". Needless to say, this statement…
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Last Wednesday, 16 September 2026, Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the French National Assembly, held a press conference to present the project for the new reception pavilion. She was accompanied by…
Lyons-la-Forêt has been awarded the "Les Plus Beaux Villages de France" label. This Norman town, in the Eure département, enjoys an exceptional setting, lying at the heart of the Forest of Lyons,…
Nous tenons tout d’abord à remercier Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard, autrice de l’ouvrage Les peintres en miniatures 1650-1850, pour les récentes recherches qu’elle a effectuées, à la suite de nos…
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Le 26 août 2026, Vianney d’Alançon, le promoteur du parc d’attractions Rocher Mistral dont nous avons à plusieurs reprises, et avec de nombreux articles, parlé sur ce site, publiait une tribune dans…
La Tribune de l’Art has fought hard for Notre-Dame and its surroundings, particularly the Square de l’Archevêché. But it is true that we had not paid much attention to the fate of the Memorial to the…
My attention was recently drawn to the changes envisaged by the City of Paris as part of the redevelopment of the area around Notre-Dame, and more particularly to those that would affect the…
Readers of La Tribune de l’Art are familiar with our love of Art Deco. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is presenting a retrospective of Jean Dupas (ill. 1), one of the greatest painters of the…
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Ingres and fashion promised an overview of the evolution of dress in the first half of the nineteenth century. The artist’s well-known interest in the meticulous, if not obsessive, rendering of…
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ome contemporary sculptures standing in public spaces are disconcerting, to say the least, if not totally abstruse. Fortunately, there is a medicine that allows us to understand their meaning…
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Both scholarly and entertaining, the subject is irresistible and even ideal for summer, although the intense heat forced the exhibition to close its doors for several days. One inevitably ends up…
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The sculpted bust portraits in medallions, whether of kings, princes or private individuals, are legion, particularly at the end of the 17th century. It should be noted that all these medallions, to…
Where are the women, with their charming gestures? They are in museums, of course. One need only consult the calendar of forthcoming exhibitions to see the determination of cultural institutions to…
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The theft of the Vix torque is certainly the last straw. Works of this type, threatened by melting down, should have been put into safekeeping while solutions for protection against burglaries were…
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Since the Second World War, the collection donated by Paul Fourché to Orléans in 1907 had been presumed lost. It was then thought that it had been destroyed in the fire that had ravaged the museum’s…
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Nous avons reçu cette semaine deux invités, Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond et Pierre Pinchon, à propos du livre sur le Symbolisme qu’ils ont co-dirigé et qui est paru il y a environ un an aux éditions…
Dans ce nouveau numéro de notre podcast, nous parlons de l’abandon du nouveau site patrimonial remarquable de Paris (à partir de 01:35) ; de la vente des boiseries du château de Villebourgeon (à…
Nous avons reçu cette semaine Baptiste Gianeselli, défenseur du patrimoine, qui seul et sans structure, réussit par son action sur X et les pétitions qu’il lance à faire bouger les choses à Paris sur…
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Dans ce nouveau numéro de notre podcast, nous parlons de la position consternante sur la sauvegarde du patrimoine, dans un débat dont nous donnons le lien ci-dessous (à partir de 00 :04) ; du…
Nous avons reçu cette semaine Jérémie Patrier-Leitus, député du Calvados, groupe Horizons et Indépendants, vice-président de la commission des affaires culturelles et de l’éducation, rapporteur du…
Dans ce nouveau numéro de notre podcast, nous parlons encore de la Tapisserie de Bayeux (à partir de 28:00) ; des musées anglais qui pourraient devenir payants pour les étrangers (à partir de 02:34)…
