Didier Rykner

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  • Greuze. Childhood and family

    After Hubert Robert, Fragonard and Anne Vallayer-Coster, it is now Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s turn to benefit from a small-scale retrospective worthy of a museum, thanks to the Galerie Coatalem.…

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  • The dismantling of the ephemeral Grand Palais is slow in coming

    Back in 2018, the building that was to replace the nave of the Grand Palais while the latter was being restored was described as ‘ephemeral’. Remember the Greek etymology of this word: ‘which lasts…

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  • 1600-2000. A collection ?

    Some collections are made with very little money. But knowledge and taste can sometimes make up for this lack, and that’s what we can see in this exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. It…

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  • The Tavitian donation at the Clark Art Institute (1)

    The Clark Art Institute, directed by French curator Olivier Meslay, has just announced an exceptional gift of 331 works of art, together with a donation of 45 million dollars to create a…

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  • Heritage funding: answers to our opponents’ arguments

    The idea floated by Rachida Dati of charging admission to Notre-Dame, which if implemented would lead to its extension to many religious buildings in France, is arousing passions. It even pits…

  • Remarkable announcements from the Minister for Culture

    The interview that Rachida Dati has just given to our colleagues at Figaro marks, in our view, an unexpected and remarkable turning point in the heritage policy of the Ministry of Culture. While…

  • L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n°23 : Damien Dumarquez

    Cette semaine nous recevons Damien Dumarquez, propriétaire, avec Raphël Aracil de Dauksza, de la galerie La Nouvelle Athènes, au 22 rue Chaptal. Ouverte depuis plus de dix ans, cette galerie propose…

  • A Vase by Triqueti enters the Louvre

    A bronze vase by Henri de Triqueti was offered for sale at the Galerie Moderne in Brussels on 19 February, under the number 49. The estimate of €7-10,000 was ridiculously low, not only because of…

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