18/9/23 - Sale of Domains - 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 (…)
La pétition est en ligne ici. 100,000. 100,000 people have already signed, in exactly ten days, the petition we launched on 10 December at 2.30pm against the replacement of Viollet-le-Duc's stained (…)
17/9/23 - Return from long-term loan - Paris, Musée du Louvre - We have just learned from France Info (see here) that a painting long-term loaned by the Louvre to Saint-Amand-Montrond is to be (…)
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Fifteenth-sixteenth century: Edited by Neville Rowley and Pierre Curie, Giovanni Bellini. Influences croisées, Coédition Fonds Mercator/Musée Jacquemart André, 2023, 192 p., 39,95 €, ISBN: (…)
7/6/23 - Restoration - Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts - It is one of the masterpieces of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, but visitors were desperate to be able to admire the Saint Catherine (…)
8/6/23 - Art market - Paris - June promises to be a particularly busy month for the Paris art market, with a cascade of public sales (article to follow) and several exhibitions organised by galleries. (…)
13/4/23 - Acquisition - Versailles, Musée national du château - There is a great contrast between the two portraits of Étienne Vincent de Margnolas sculpted at the same time by two neo-classical (…)
Créer. Dessiner pour les arts décoratifs 1500-1900 Bois-le-Duc, Design Museum Den Bosch, from 5 November 2022 to 15 February 2023 Paris, Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, from 25 February to (…)
Has the Établissement public in charge of Notre-Dame, under pressure to meet the deadlines imposed by the French President, who wants the monument to reopen on 8 December 2024, vandalised precious (…)
5/22/23 - Acquisitions - New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery - The New Haven museum has just received a major acquisition: an entire collection of nineteenth-century Italian drawings has been (…)
Leuven Museum (M Leuven), from 20 October 2023 to 14 January 2024. Transhistorical: this is the only word the organisers of this rich exhibition have on their lips to describe the event, promising a (…)
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6/7/22 - Acquisition - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - As we have mentioned on several occasions in this issue, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is carrying out a complete architectural and (…)
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19/4/24 - Appointment - Paris, Musée d'Orsay - Since the announcement of Christophe Leribault's departure for Versailles last February (see the news item of 9/2/24), this was one of the most eagerly (…)
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Please consider signing the petition, if you have not already done so. In our series on the fake news spread by Paris City Hall, we can go back to the title of the first article because this time (…)
20/6/23 - Art Market - Paris - "Millet is my passion, my god in drawing" declared Alain Delon to our colleague Harry Bellet in an interview back in 2007. So it comes as no surprise to see four works (…)
You did not grow up in an artistic environment and practiced dentistry. How did you develop this passion for art that has led you to build a collection that is both rich and varied, in which 15th and (…)
Xavier Bray (ill. 1) 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 - (…)
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Please consider signing the petition, if you have not already done so. The Journal du Dimanche, which reveals itself week after week more and more as the official organ of Paris City Hall, published (…)
Roberta 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 (…)
The World Monument Fund is an international organisation dedicated to safeguarding architecture and heritage. It had an affiliate office in France that took part in numerous restoration projects (…)
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