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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 12 - 24/4/24 : Olivia VoisinThis week we talk to Olivia Voisin, Director of Orléans Museums, and in particular the Musée des Beaux-Arts. She talks to us about this museum (and others), its very active acquisitions policy, and…
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Géricaults rediscovered in museums? Really?The discovery or rediscovery of paintings attributed to great masters is a regular occurrence in art history. Attribution is not an exact science, and the identity of the authors of certain works…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 10 - 10/4/24 : Rodolphe RapettiCette semaine, nous recevons Rodolphe Rapetti, le directeur du château de Compiègne. Nous avons récemment consacré plusieurs articles à ce château-musée à propos de la réouverture du Musée de…
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The Beauvoisine Museum in Rouen: a ruinous and destructive projectWhen we met the new director of Rouen’s museums at a press briefing, he told us about the "vast architectural and museographic renovation project" for the two museums in the rue Beauvoisine, the…
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An ugly painting? Yes, but by a woman! So it’s fine...Le Rijksmuseum a acquis d’autres œuvres à la TEFAF dont nous parlerons ultérieurement, mais la seule pour laquelle elle s’est fendue d’un communiqué triomphal est le Portrait de Moses Ter Borch à l’âge…
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Comfort at the museumVisiter un musée ne doit pas devenir un parcours du combattant. Ils sont beaucoup trop nombreux à oublier cette composante essentielle pour la délectation artistique : le confort. Visiting a museum…
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Successful reopening of the Draguignan museumSome museums are no longer fulfilling their mission (see several recent articles). It is fortunate, however, that others are doing exactly the opposite, and that some towns are realising the…
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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.…
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Renovation of the Musée Lambinet in VersaillesCrushed 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,…
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VAT on imported works of art: French suicideThe 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…
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Exhibition, restoration, lay out, acquisition... News from the Girodet MuseumAfter the dramatic floods of 2016, the Musée Girodet had reopened, but the collections were still being restored, so not everything could be displayed yet. The situation continues to improve and…