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  • Three paintings sold by a French prefecture...

    The sale, which is online only, closes tomorrow at 11am. So it’s very late to be talking about it, but we didn’t find out about it until yesterday, Sunday, and we didn’t get a full reply (obviously…

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  • Back to L’Aquila (3). Il Museo Nazionale d’Abruzzo

    Since its creation in 1951, the National Museum of Abruzzo has been housed in the Forte Spagnolo of L’Aquila, built in the 16th century. This impressive fortress, designed by the architect Pere…

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  • Interview with Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace Collection

    Xavier Bray has been Director of the Wallace Collection since 2016. We caught up with him in London to talk about his seven years at the helm of one of England’s most prestigious museums - which,…

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  • The rebirth of the Museo di Capodimonte e Real Bosco

    Une allée en face du Museo di Capodimonte surnommée l’allée aux seringues, de la prostitution infantile, le cadavre d’un jeune homme drogué découvert dans un bosquet, des pelouses en mauvais état, un…

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  • Tate Britain: Burlington Magazine’s opinion

    After 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…

  • Tate Britain’s rehang and acquisitions (1/2)

    The new museum-wide presentation of works at Tate Britain clearly has a thoughtful subtext in which colonial issues, gender and everything else that constitutes the alpha and omega of today’s…

  • News from Bayeux

    Le Parisien informed us in an article dated 11 July that Nicole Paolini, a resident of Bayeux who died in March at the age of 86 and had no children, had bequeathed assets worth an estimated 2…

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  • The Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame begins to emerge from limbo

    At 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 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…

  • "The Holy Trinity" in danger

    The Moscow Patriarchate recently announced that, "in response to numerous requests from Orthodox believers", President Vladimir V. Putin has decided to return to the Church the famous icon of the…

  • Italy taxes photographs even for researchers

    La révolte gronde dans le milieu de l’histoire de l’art en Italie, et avec d’excellentes raisons. Le nouveau ministre de la Culture (Ministro dei Beni Culturali), Gennaro Sangiuliano, arrivé au…

  • Expertise at risk

    For 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…

  • Will Omai be split between London and Los Angeles?

    Omai was a traveller, coming to England from Polynesia at the age of 22 in 1774, and remaining in London until 1776, frequenting British high society. The paintings depicting him are obviously…

  • 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.…

  • Renovation of the Musée Lambinet in Versailles

    Crushed by the château, which attracts the vast majority of tourists visiting Versailles, the Musée Lambinet, a municipal museum, is having trouble making itself known, and that is a great pity,…

  • VAT on imported works of art: French suicide

    The import tax can be understood as soon as it regulates the imports of goods that a country (or a set of countries governed by a common market) uses, from other countries, and that weigh on its…

  • Trésors nationaux : le raisonnement mesquin de l’État

    Le 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…