Laurence des Cars’ policy at the Louvre
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Louvre: comparison of the presidencies of Jean-Luc Martinez and Laurence des CarsWe published no fewer than 95 articles on the policy of Jean-Luc Martinez, the vast majority of which revealed affairs unworthy of this museum. We were relieved to see that his appointment was not…
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The "Renaissance of the Louvre" threatens the LouvreLaurence 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…
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Emmanuel Macron’s little grand LouvreEmmanuel 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…
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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…
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The Louvre Colonnade: an enchanted interludeYou have to see it to believe it. For the first time in at least twenty years, if not more, the Louvre colonnade, that masterpiece of classical architecture attributed to Claude Perrault - but in…
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New surprises from the Louvre’s online ticketing serviceWe had never taken a detailed look at the Louvre’s ticketing system, since we have our Friends of the Louvre card and, as indicated when we signed up, we are normally allowed "free and unlimited"…
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Friends of the Louvre banned from entering the LouvreWe 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…
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About Germany at the Louvre and its acquisitions policyThe 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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Louvre: paper catalogue also available to download free of chargePublishing books on the internet - we did this recently thanks to Thierry Zimmer who entrusted us with his catalogue raisonné on the nineteenth-century painter Antoine Rivoulon (which you can…
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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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