Didier Rykner
Articles
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French Ministry of Culture budget conference: good news and bad newsFrench Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak presented the Ministry of Culture’s budget on Wednesday. As we have often written, a budget can only be fully judged once it has actually been spent. In…
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Marseille buys a portrait by Dominique PapetyBorn in Marseilles, Dominique Papety suffered a tragic fate: he died at the age of just 34 from cholera, which he contracted during a trip to Greece. His short career was nonetheless fruitful,…
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Disappearance of Paris: an Art Deco building and several treesThe disappearance of Paris under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, which we denounced in a book published last year by Belles Lettres, is no fiction, unfortunately, and this disappearance is even accelerating.…
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Three paintings sold by a French prefecture...The sale, which is online only, closes tomorrow at 11am. So it’s very late to be talking about it, but we didn’t find out about it until yesterday, Sunday, and we didn’t get a full reply (obviously…
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A painting by Raden Saleh returns to the LouvreWe have just learned from France Info that a painting long-term loaned by the Louvre to Saint-Amand-Montrond is to be restored and returned to Paris for good. It is a rare canvas - the only one…
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Protection du patrimoine : de bonnes mesures qui ne résolvent pas toutNous critiquons suffisamment souvent la politique patrimoniale du chef de l’État pour convenir que, pour une fois, les mesures qu’il a annoncées hier en faveur du patrimoine religieux vont dans le…
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Fabrizio Moretti opens a gallery in ParisThere could be no better symbol of the dynamism of the Paris art market than the arrival of a new gallery devoted to old painters. The one that has just opened its doors on Place du Louvre, next…
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The Boejat legacy in Nantes (1): 17th-century landscapes and still lifesAs we wrote earlier, the Boejat bequest to the Musée d’Arts d’Nantes comprises three main groups. We will begin with two news items about 17th-century and 18th-century French painting, starting with…
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A major bequest for the Musée d’Art de NantesSome collectors are well known to museums, forge privileged relationships with them, and end up donating one work, sometimes several, or even an entire collection. This was not the case with…
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Some online art history journals (2)Here we continue our list of art history journals freely available on the Internet, pointing out an error when we updated the page that lists them all, because the old URL was no longer the…
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