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 (…)
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A bust by Spalla preempted by Versailles
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Process: Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum 1500-1900
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 (…)
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Notre-Dame: archaeological digs sacrificed to meet deadlines
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 (…)
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A donation of Italian drawings from the Ottocento to Yale
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 (…)
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Dieric Bouts, Creator of Images
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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A bronze by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller acquired by LACMA
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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Sylvain Amic appointed head of the Musée d’Orsay
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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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: the fake news of Emmanuel Grégoire (3): the disappeared benches
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 (…)
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Alain Delon disperses his last treasures
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 (…)
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Interview with Patrice Benadon, collector
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 (…)
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Interview with Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace Collection
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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Gardens of Notre-Dame: an analysis of Emmanuel Grégoire’s interview in the JDD
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 (…)
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Interview with Roberta Olson and Alexander Johnson about their donation to Yale
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 (…)
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Interview with Mathilde Augé, Executive Director of WMF France
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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