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  • An ugly painting? Yes, but by a woman! So it’s fine...

    Le Rijksmuseum a acquis d’autres œuvres à la TEFAF dont nous parlerons ultérieurement, mais la seule pour laquelle elle s’est fendue d’un communiqué triomphal est le Portrait de Moses Ter Borch à l’âge…

  • Comfort at the museum

    Visiter un musée ne doit pas devenir un parcours du combattant. Ils sont beaucoup trop nombreux à oublier cette composante essentielle pour la délectation artistique : le confort. Visiting a museum…

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  • Successful reopening of the Draguignan museum

    Some museums are no longer fulfilling their mission (see several recent articles). It is fortunate, however, that others are doing exactly the opposite, and that some towns are realising the…

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  • At Versailles, the irregularity is getting worse

    We won’t go back over Catherine Pégard’s illegitimacy as president of the Versailles public establishment. She has long since exceeded all the age and term limits laid down by law. The Ministry of…

  • Musée Gadagne: a summary...

    In four articles, we have covered the entire Musée Gadagne. And the results are distressing. On the day of our visit, we were able to meet Xavier de la Selle, the museum’s curatorial director. In…

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  • Musée de la Marine in Paris: fluctuat et mergitur

    Two accessories seem to be essential for visiting the Musée de la Marine in Paris, as the new scenography aims to "encourage total immersion in the sea": flippers and snorkels. But that’s not all.…

  • Claude Gillot, a stillborn exhibition

    The Claude Gillot exhibition at the Louvre lasted less than three days. The exhibition has been unhooked, and lenders are already seeing the return of works they had theoretically loaned for…

  • 1000 historic weapons saved from destruction

    The name of La Tribune de l’Art does not appear in the press release issued by the Musée de l’Armée announcing that a thousand historic weapons will enter the collections of French museums. However,…

  • 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…

  • Musée du Verre de Conches, reopening and exhibition of a donation

    After three years of renovation work, the Musée du Verre in Conches-en-Ouche reopened its doors at the end of June 2022. Too cramped for space in the premises it had occupied since its creation in…

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  • Three inalienable paintings sold by the French State

    On 19 September this year, the Domaines auctioned three paintings belonging to a prefecture. Due to lack of time, we were unable to go into more detail about the origin of the works. It was the…

  • Three paintings sold by a French prefecture...

    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 get a full reply (obviously…

  • Back to L’Aquila (3). Il Museo Nazionale d’Abruzzo

    Since its creation in 1951, the National Museum of Abruzzo has been housed in the Forte Spagnolo of L’Aquila, built in the 16th century. This impressive fortress, designed by the architect Pere…

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  • Interview with Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace Collection

    Xavier Bray 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 - which,…

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  • The rebirth of the Museo di Capodimonte e Real Bosco

    Une allée en face du Museo di Capodimonte surnommée l’allée aux seringues, de la prostitution infantile, le cadavre d’un jeune homme drogué découvert dans un bosquet, des pelouses en mauvais état, un…

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  • Tate Britain: Burlington Magazine’s opinion

    After writing our first news item about Tate Britain’s rehanging and acquisitions, we received the July issue of Burlington Magazine, whose editorial is devoted to precisely this subject. Those…

  • Tate Britain’s rehang and acquisitions (1/2)

    The new museum-wide presentation of works at Tate Britain clearly has a thoughtful subtext in which colonial issues, gender and everything else that constitutes the alpha and omega of today’s…

  • News from Bayeux

    Le Parisien informed us in an article dated 11 July that Nicole Paolini, a resident of Bayeux who died in March at the age of 86 and had no children, had bequeathed assets worth an estimated 2…

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