Didier Rykner
Articles
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News from the Château de Compiègne (2): the reopening of the Musée de l’Impératrice
The Musée de l’Impératrice in Compiègne, which has been closed for many years, reopened its doors in 2022 and its museography has been redesigned. We didn’t know about it before it closed, but the…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (1)
The Hôtel Gadagne, Lyon’s history museum, has been the talk of the town since it was completely redeveloped. The controversy centres on the way in which part of the exhibition revisits the city’s…
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Imminent destruction of Marie Curie’s Pavillon des Sources
At a recent meeting of the Paris City Council, Emmanuel Grégoire dared to make the following statement about the Pavillon des Sources threatened with imminent destruction: "Marie Curie never…
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A Neapolitan Baroque sketch for Beauvais
he Musée départemental de l’Oise has recently revived a policy it largely followed a few decades ago. Under the impetus of Louvre curators such as Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée and Jacques Foucart, the…
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The Académie des Beaux-Arts opposes the replacement of Notre-Dame’s stained glass windows
Yesterday, Wednesday 20 December, the Académie des Beaux-Arts published a press release without ambiguity on the project to replace Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows in Notre-Dame. While it…
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100,000 !
100,000. 100,000 people have already signed, in exactly ten days, the petition we launched on 10 December at 2.30pm against the replacement of Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows in Notre-Dame.…
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A painting by Nicolas Loir and Jean I Cotelle for Vaux-le-Vicomte
With the support of its Friends association, the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte wanted to acquire a Gobelins tapestry for which it had launched a fundraising campaign. The tapestry was eventually…
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The President of the Friends of the Louvre at the heart of several controversies
La Tribune de l’Art talks about museums and historic monuments from the point of view of art history. We are deliberately distancing ourselves from the other controversies that can arise in this…
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News from the Château de Compiègne (1): the catalogue of paintings on line
We haven’t written much about the Château de Compiègne since Rodolphe Rapetti took over the helm. We had a distorted view of his work because of the two exhibitions devoted to cars. Not that the…
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Musée de l’Œuvre de Notre-Dame: an opportunity for the Hôtel-Dieu
The regrettable affair of the Viollet-le-Duc stained glass windows (sign the petition) should not detract from a remarkable decision by the French President of the Republic, which cannot be…
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