Heritage and museum policy in France
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Un discours prometteur du nouveau ministre de l’Education nationale, Gabriel Attal
Dans La Tribune de l’Art, nous avons trop peu l’occasion de dire du bien des ministres. Nous l’avions fait une fois au moins, récemment, à propos de la précédente ministre de la Culture, Roselyne…
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A report on Versailles by the French Court of Accounts
The 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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The Oberkampf Pool finally listed as a historic monument
Fortunately, it’s not all bad news. We reported a year and a half ago on the threats hanging over the Molitor Pool, a fine example of Art Deco, a style that has been vandalised too often in recent…
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The statue of La Bourdonnais on Réunion Island soon to be unbolted
On 6 May we reported on the threats to unbolt the bronze statue of La Bourdonnais, sculpted by Louis Rochet and listed as a historic monument. These threats are becoming increasingly pressing,…
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The Olympics against heritage and museums
La Tribune de l’Art, which practices journalism committed to heritage, has never hidden its fierce opposition to the organisation of the Olympic Games in Paris. It was a losing battle, as the…
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The Conservatoire d’art dramatique soon to be "classé" as a historic monument
It’s a fight we’ve been waging for several years now, and to which we’ve devoted many articles. Thanks to the Minister for Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, who is at last keeping a promise made by…
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French Ministry of Culture budget conference: good news and bad news
French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak presented the Ministry of Culture’s budget on Wednesday. As we have often written, a budget can only be fully judged once it has actually been spent. In…
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Sculptures from the rood screen at Notre-Dame: obstruction from the body responsible for archaeological digs
We know that the salvage excavations at the transept crossing of Notre-Dame have found, as might be expected, some of the sculptures from the 13th-century rood screen destroyed in the 18th…
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Mr Vandal, do you accept the protection of the monument you are about to destroy?
The French system for protecting historic monuments, which used to be one of the best in the world, is severely seized up. In addition to the legislative regressions we have witnessed in recent…
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The Fontainebleau woke festival
We are very fond of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art, an annual three-day event that brings together a wide range of players from the museum, university, heritage and market worlds, as well as…
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