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  • 17th-century French painting mistreated by the Louvre

    One of the Louvre’s missions is indispensable, not only because it is the largest museum in France, but also because it is the only one in the world to have the resources (collections, exhibition…

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  • The Louvre open, but closed

    During Jean-Luc Martinez’s directorship, we devoted two articles to the Louvre’s public closure (see here and there). Is the situation any better today? Obviously not. Theoretically, there are no…

  • The Renaissance of the Louvre in 2 hours flat...

    We have already spoken several times about the "Renaissance du Louvre" project launched by Emmanuel Macron and Laurence des Cars. A damaging project for the Louvre - the palace as well as the museum…

  • The degrowth of museums... and collections?

    The number seemed incredible: in 2022, "more than 200,000 new items" would have entered French public collections. This figure was quoted by Christelle Creff, director of the French museums…

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  • The little comedy of Dutch restitutions

    In the great race to return artefacts to Africa, the Netherlands have just got back into the game with a sensational move supported and validated by the Minister of Culture Eppo Bruins. More than a…

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  • The project for a museum for Notre-Dame in limbo

    On 8 December 2023, during a visit to Notre-Dame, the President of the Republic announced a bad decision: the replacement of the stained glass windows, and a good one: the creation of a Musée de…

  • The "Renaissance of the Louvre" threatens the Louvre

    Laurence des Cars, inside the Louvre, only talks to her close collaborators. Many people in the museum complain that she does not say hello to anyone, keeping her head stubbornly fixed towards the…

  • Fundraising for the future Musée Sérusier

    Un nouveau musée ouvrira ses portes le 21 juin prochain , au cœur du Finistère, dans la petite ville de Châteauneuf-du-Faou. Il mettra en valeur le nabi « à la barbe rutilante», Paul Sérusier, ainsi…

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  • The new graphic arts cabinet of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs

    The wealth of the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in the field of graphic arts, particularly ornamental drawings and wallpaper, was well known but was not at all showcased, preserved or…

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  • The degrowth of museums

    Les musées représentent-ils un danger pour la planète ? La question, évidemment, n’a pas été formulée en ces termes lors de la journée professionnelle d’ICOM France qui s’est déroulée à Reims en…

  • The sad fate of the Brooklyn Museum

    Our book, which is due to be published next Wednesday, is devoted to the current drift of certain museums and could not cover all the establishments concerned, of which there are unfortunately…

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  • Emmanuel Macron’s little grand Louvre

    Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the Louvre, in which he wished to appear as the savior of a museum he has never cared about until now, was sewn with white thread. We had already known for two years that…

  • Is the Louvre in danger? If so, whose fault is it?

    In September 2024, we met with Laurence des Cars to ask her about the pharaonic works that were being prepared at the Louvre, in particular the Perrault colonnade entrance project, which we were told…

  • Art theft: beware of easy solutions

    The day after the robbery at the Musée Cognacq-Jay, a new theft took place at the Musée du Hiéron in Paray-le-Monial, a little-known museum with an exceptional collection of religious art, in very…

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  • Anachronism in museums

    Vibrators and dildos line up next to a famous painting: The Bolt. This masterpiece by Fragonard appears at the corner of a picture rail in the new exhibition that the Musée des Arts décoratifs is…

  • Restoration: training for excellence at the INP

    Twelve billion matches. That’s what the Aubervilliers factory produced every year, thanks to the white phosphorus made from bones from the region’s abattoirs. Founded in 1867, rebuilt in 1902 and…

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  • New developments for Sèvres and Limoges

    Inaugurated in 1824 by Alexandre Brongniart, who watched over the manufactory for almost half a century, the Musée de Sèvres can only look back with nostalgia at this golden age, which contrasts…

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  • Stage Jewels of the Comédie-Française

    All imitations! L’École des Arts Joailliers inaugurated its new Parisian address with a rich collection of stage jewellery from the Comédie-Française, despite long months of delay and a veil of…

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  • The Inguimbertine: the new library-museum in Carpentras

    "Most of our illnesses come from our corruptible nature and our ignorance, but all consolation and healing come from God and science". Any crisis of faith

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  • Friends of the Louvre banned from entering the Louvre

    We never would have thought we would see this one day, and even during Jean-Luc Martinez’s tenure, we hadn’t seen it.. But everything happens, and from now on Friends of the Louvre are no longer…

  • About Germany at the Louvre and its acquisitions policy

    The recent acquisition by the Louvre’s Department of Paintings of a German picture seen at Tefaf in Maastricht on the stand of the American gallery 19C is a mystery that we have been unable to…

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