Didier Rykner

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  • Launch of a new donation campaign

    As every year-end, we are launching a campaign for tax-deductible donations to La Tribune de l’Art. This is a possibility provided by French law for newspapers « of political and general information…

  • New evidence of the Louvre’s lies

    We have already had the opportunity to highlight the relentless lies of Laurence des Cars regarding her alleged priority given to securing the Louvre and to the implementation of the master plans.…

  • A Louvre adrift

    Today, the president-director of the Louvre is being heard by the Cultural Committee of the French National Assembly, after the Senate hearing almost a month ago. It is unlikely that this hearing…

  • Issuance of the export certificate for the Pascaline suspended

    We raised this issue only two days ago, when we discussed the Christie’s sale: concern was growing, particularly among scholars, about the export certificate granted for the Pascaline, the…

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  • A few works coming up for auction in France shortly

    Outre les ventes auxquelles nous avons dédié où à qui nous dédierons des articles, et les œuvres déjà citées précédemment, quelques dessins et tableaux importants subiront très prochainement le feu…

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  • Death of Guy Cogeval

    The relations between Guy Cogeval and La Tribune de l’Art were complicated. But, despite the criticisms we had addressed to him — notably regarding the paid exhibitions he circulated around the world…

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  • The Louvre’s scapegoats

    We have been writing this regularly since the theft of October 19 at the Louvre: the accumulating evidence demonstrating the mismanagement of the Louvre’s presidency would, in any democracy that…

  • The fantastical “opening rate” of the Louvre’s rooms

    The document entitled “Performance Contract 2025–2029 of the Public Establishment of the Musée du Louvre”, which we quoted in our previous article on the Louvre, is also worth consulting for at least…

  • Lies from the Louvre about security: new evidence

    “I made security an absolute priority”. We have already had occasion to write this several times: this sentence by Laurence des Cars, spoken before the Senate and since repeated on many occasions, is…