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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Notre-Dame: archaeological digs sacrificed to meet deadlines
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (1)
The Hôtel Gadagne, Lyon's history museum, has been the talk of the town since it was completely redeveloped. The controversy centres on the way in which part of the exhibition revisits the city's (…)
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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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100,000 !
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 (…)
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Champ-de-Mars: the Town Hall takes legal action to defend a project it says it abandoned!
On Thursday 19 October, three days ago, the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal held a hearing on an application by several associations[[France Nature Environnement, SOS Paris, Les Amis du Champ-de- (…)
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Three paintings sold by a French prefecture...
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 (…)
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A painting by Raden Saleh returns to the Louvre
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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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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Ingres. The artist and his princes
Ingres. L'artiste et ses princes Chantilly, Musée Condé, from 3 June to 1 October 2023 We were thrilled with the visit. Reading the remarkable catalogue completes our conviction: this Ingres (…)
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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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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 century. We (…)
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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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Four exhibitions in Paris galleries
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. (…)
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Strasbourg’s Vouet restored
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 (…)
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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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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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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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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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Naples for passion. Masterworks from the De Vito collection
Naples pour passion. Chefs-d'œuvre de la collection de Vito Dijon, Musée Magnin, du 29 mars au 25 juin 2023. Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, du 15 juillet au 29 octobre 2023. We were probably among the (…)
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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 (…)