Didier Rykner
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The Cour des comptes forgets Viollet-le-Duc’s stained-glass windowsThe Cour des comptes has just issued its third report on the restoration site of Notre-Dame and on the operation of the Établissement public. Overall, it is more of a favourable verdict, which is not…
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Anne-Solène Rolland appointed director of the INHACe n’est pas une surprise puisqu’elle a été choisie il y a déjà plusieurs mois : Anne-Solène Rolland va prendre la tête de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art. Elle succédera ainsi à Alain…
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To great women, the grateful homeland (a contribution to the debate)L’idée est lancée, et c’est peu de dire qu’elle l’est par une des grandes intelligences de notre époque, qui situe très haut le niveau des débat : rien moins qu’Élisabeth Borne, ancienne premier…
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Bayeux Tapestry: Orwell enters the debateLast January, the prefecture of Calvados (that is, the French State) published a video on its YouTube account about the dusting of the Bayeux Tapestry. On that occasion, the museum adviser from the…
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Bénédicte Gady appointed director of the Musées des Arts DécoratifsHer permanent appointment to the position she had been holding on an interim basis for almost a year is not really a surprise, as she has the unanimous support of the people who work with her:…
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Bayeux Tapestry: facts and fiatWhile the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry was decided by the President of the Republic and our petition has reached 60,000 signatures — which is insufficient, but nevertheless succeeded in widely…
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Trumpism and wokism, two sides of the same coinExtremes always give rise to other extremes. As we wrote in our book “Mauvais genre au musée”, it is in part the excesses of wokism, particularly strong in the United States, that have allowed the…
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Louvre: no entryWe have never ceased, for years, to denounce the unbelievable number of rooms closed at the Louvre, often under the pretext of works that do not exist, with the museum’s management knowingly lying to…
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The cases pile upStained glass windows of Notre-Dame, the Louvre’s megalomaniac project, the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry, the law on “restitutions”… For several months now, cases concerning heritage and museums —…
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Guido Reni behind closed doorsConfronting works, confronting the opinions of different specialists and connoisseurs… This is unquestionably one of the ways to advance knowledge in art history. For almost everyone. But not for…
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