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Tate Britain: Burlington Magazine’s opinionAfter writing our first news item about Tate Britain’s rehanging and acquisitions, we received the July issue of Burlington Magazine, whose editorial is devoted to precisely this subject. Those…
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Sculptures from the rood screen at Notre-Dame: obstruction from the body responsible for archaeological digsWe know that the salvage excavations at the transept crossing of Notre-Dame have found, as might be expected, some of the sculptures from the 13th-century rood screen destroyed in the 18th…
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The Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame begins to emerge from limboAt the first "Assises de l’histoire de l’art" on Friday 7 July, an event organised by the Comité français de l’histoire de l’art at Sceaux during which several round-table discussions were held on a…
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The liturgical refurbishment of Notre-Dame will calm the debateThe Archdiocese of Paris has just announced its plans for the redevelopment of Notre-Dame de Paris, which will be submitted to the CNPA (National Commission for Heritage and Architecture) on 13…
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The few words we’ll be writing about CarnacThe case was revealed by the "Sites & Monuments" association and made the front page of many newspapers and TV channels: work was carried out on a site in Carnac without following the INRAP…
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The Fontainebleau woke festivalWe are very fond of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art, an annual three-day event that brings together a wide range of players from the museum, university, heritage and market worlds, as well as…
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"The museum has been very generous!""The museum has been very generous!" It is not uncommon to hear this phrase from exhibition curators to point out that this or that important work has been loaned, or that many of the objects on…
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It is time to respect the Louvre ColonnadeA meeting was organized today at the Paris Centre City Hall by its mayor Ariel Weil to launch a reflection on the "Place du Louvre," an inappropriate term since this one, which is in front of the…
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The Fitzwilliam Museum is looking for its "Empowering Culture Program Manager"This is a very curious position that the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has just opened, and it released the job description a few days ago. The job description, which consists of running a…
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La Tribune de l’Art is now bilingual, in French and EnglishLa Tribune de l’Art is an online news magazine specialising in art history and heritage from the Middle Ages to the 1930s. It has been in existence for twenty years, and from now on it will also…
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Benin bronzes from German museums returned to the private sectorOnly the naive (to put it mildly) will be surprised. It was bound to happen, and it is happening even sooner than we thought: a massive restitution operation has turned into a farce, and works…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: facts versus propagandaThe defense of the gardens of Notre-Dame is also a battle of communication. Thus, the article by Claire Bommelaer in Le Figaro, very factual and well informed, was titled - in the print edition:…
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50 millions !One point of the cathedral’s surrounds redevelopment project has not been sufficiently emphasised in recent days. Its implausible cost. Let’s remember that the day after the Notre-Dame fire, Anne…
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Launch of a partnership between La Tribune de l’Art and QobuzLa Tribune de l’Art is only interested in the plastic arts (paintings, drawings, sculptures, decorative arts...), architecture and heritage, over a precise period (from the Middle Ages to the…
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Let’s get Chagall out of the Opera!It is a fight for which we were pioneers: on November 2, 2003, exactly twenty years ago, just a few months after the birth of La Tribune de l’Art, we wrote in an article about the restoration of…
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Expertise at riskFor some time now, paintings by great names of the French 19th century have been appearing on the art market whose attribution, though asserted without nuance, is at best uncertain. All it takes…
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Living together enters the CMN"She has a solar and federating energy that raises" said the Minister of Culture, without laughing, quoted by Le Figaro, which revealed the news of Marie Lavandier’s nomination as president of the…
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The Evangeliary of Saint-Mihiel: a new defeat for French heritageIt is one of the most important medieval manuscripts in the world. The Evangeliary of Saint-Mihiel was classified as a national treasure on 1 March 2020. According to the opinion of the…
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A (final?) opportunity to save the decor of the Roman BarIn 2011, we published a news item to express our indignation at the sale of a set of thirteen paintings by Gustave Surand, which formed the décor of the Bar Romain, next to L’Olympia, after these…
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From Pisano to Rembrandt...It is sometimes difficult to write an article about the entry into the collections of a work that we have already spoken about extensively here and that is finally acquired through a fundraising.…
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Bernini, Raphael and (very) artificial intelligenceFor the past few weeks, the phrase "artificial intelligence" has been on everyone’s lips. This is due in part to the release of ChatGPT, a "conversational robot" that is supposed to be able to…
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Sylvain Maillard stronger than Anne HidalgoSince her election in 2014, Anne Hidalgo and her team have been ravaging Paris. We have devoted countless articles to the state of this city, its heritage, its urban planning and its roads. We…
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Trésors nationaux : le raisonnement mesquin de l’ÉtatLe don par LVMH du canotier de Gustave Caillebotte au Musée d’Orsay est un très beau geste qui mérite d’être salué en dépit de la chasse aux riches que certains aimeraient mener. La France est…
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Non-acquisition : l’album des Fables de La Fontaine par OudryLors de la vente Christie’s de la collection Safra, l’un des lots phare était incontestablement l’album de dessins de Jean-Baptiste Oudry pour l’illustration des Fables de La Fontaine. Les deux…
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Versailles dans une forme olympiqueC’est une nouvelle fois La Lettre A qui révèle le pot aux roses un peu avant qu’il ne soit mis en œuvre : après le décret Pégard, voilà maintenant l’amendement Pégard. Une histoire tellement rocambolesque…
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Madonna et Langlois, une passion françaiseNous avions dit que nous n’en parlerions pas, et c’est déjà la deuxième fois que nous l’évoquons : il s’agit bien sûr de l’ « affaire » Madonna, du désormais fameux tableau de Jérôme Martin Langlois qu’elle…
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Du choix des sujetsIl arrive parfois que des informations qui semblent relever de notre champ et que l’on trouve dans certains journaux ne soient pas traitées, en tout cas pas immédiatement, par La Tribune de l’Art,…