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Claude Gillot, a stillborn exhibitionThe Claude Gillot exhibition at the Louvre lasted less than three days. The exhibition has been unhooked, and lenders are already seeing the return of works they had theoretically loaned for…
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1000 historic weapons saved from destructionThe name of La Tribune de l’Art does not appear in the press release issued by the Musée de l’Armée announcing that a thousand historic weapons will enter the collections of French museums. However,…
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A report on Versailles by the French Court of AccountsThe Court of Accounts’ reports on public cultural institutions are always interesting reading and most of the time raise excellent questions. Their only limitation is, sometimes, a lack of…
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Musée du Verre de Conches, reopening and exhibition of a donationAfter three years of renovation work, the Musée du Verre in Conches-en-Ouche reopened its doors at the end of June 2022. Too cramped for space in the premises it had occupied since its creation in…
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Encounter with Robert Blaizeau, the new director of Rouen’s museumsWhen he applied for the post of Director of Rouen Museums, Robert Blaizeau chose not to propose any temporary exhibition projects. Keen to make the most of the resources - human and material -…
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Three inalienable paintings sold by the French StateOn 19 September this year, the Domaines auctioned three paintings belonging to a prefecture. Due to lack of time, we were unable to go into more detail about the origin of the works. It was the…
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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’AbruzzoSince 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 CollectionXavier 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 BoscoUne 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 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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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…
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News from BayeuxLe 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 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 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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"The Holy Trinity" in dangerThe 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…
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Interview with Roberta Olson and Alexander Johnson about their donation to YaleRoberta Olson and Alexander Johnson have made a very significant gift of a collection of Italian Ottocento drawings to the Yale University Art Gallery. We discuss this collection in an article…
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The Martinez Report: the end of the inalienability of French museum collections?It is necessary to read the report entitled «Patrimoine partagé : universalité, restitutions et circulation des œuvres d’art» written by the honorary president-director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc…
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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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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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Italy taxes photographs even for researchersLa 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…
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Jean-Pierre Samoyault’s reaction to the purchase of Winterhalter’s copyIn the email received from Marie-Christine Labourdette justifying the preemption by the Château de Fontainebleau of a copy of Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s painting: The Empress Eugenie Surrounded by…
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An incomprehensible preemption of the Château de FontainebleauFontainebleau has been spared the fashion for forgeries until now, but it has now taken a dive. The château today preempted a recent copy, dating from 1968, of Franz-Xaver Winterhalter’s painting…
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The Goya Museum reopens after a three-year construction periodThe work on the Goya Museum began in 2020 just after the first containment and took only three years. Three years is a remarkable timeframe for restoring a building and completely redoing a…
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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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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…
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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.…