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Anachronism in museumsVibrators and dildos line up next to a famous painting: The Bolt. This masterpiece by Fragonard appears at the corner of a picture rail in the new exhibition that the Musée des Arts décoratifs is…
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The worrying project for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in ValenciennesSince the end of last year, we have made several attempts to find out more about the ’scientific and cultural project’ of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, a short version of which is online…
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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…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (4)The fourth part of the permanent tour of the Musée Gadagne has just opened, and for us and many others it was an opportunity to discover the entire new layout. And right from the first room, a…
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The statue of La Bourdonnais on Réunion Island soon to be unboltedOn 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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A new Géricault for the Metropolitan MuseumThanks to a gift from Christopher Forbes, this major American museum has just acquired a new painting by Théodore Géricault. The small-scale work is not an easy subject, since it depicts General…
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Tate Britain: Burlington Magazine’s opinionAfter 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…
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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…
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The Fontainebleau woke festivalWe 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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The Fitzwilliam Museum is looking for its "Empowering Culture Program Manager"This is a very curious position that the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has just opened, and it released the job description a few days ago. The job description, which consists of running a…
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