"There may be some who would like to do something else..." suggested Raymond Devos, a French comedian, in a falsely ingenuous tone in a sketch entitled "Faites l’amour, pas la guerre" ("Make love,…
Très admiré à Londres en juillet 2023 puis à Maastricht en mars 2024, le très beau Mars de Giambologna que proposait Stuart Lochhead ne pouvait qu’intéresser les grands musées nord-américains et c’est…
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Since the announcement of Christophe Leribault’s departure for Versailles last February, this was one of the most eagerly awaited appointments. Although a short list of candidates had been…
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The DJ (or disc-jockeys) of electro music - the Shindi collective - asked the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes to shoot a video clip in the heart of the permanent exhibition. There was no danger to…
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Émile Bernard’s Self-portrait was preempted by the Musée de Pont-Aven and fetched €50 400 at Christie’s sale in Paris on 10 April. It adds a first self-portrait to the group of around fifteen…
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The Ministry of the Budget (obviously in collusion with the Élysée Palace) has just wiped €10 billion off France’s budget with the stroke of a pen, despite the fact that the budget was debated in…
France’s new Minister of Culture didn’t get off to a great start when she approved the ’relocation-reconstruction’ of the Institut Curie’s Pavillon des Sources... But while the future of this Parisian…
In an article posted online yesterday on the Figaro website, the director of the Rocher Mistral theme park (whose co-shareholders are the Dassault, Michelin and Montagne families) made a…
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…
If the request made by Culture Minister Rachida Dati to Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL) the day before yesterday, Thursday 18 April, is acted upon, it is a welcome one. This developer is in charge…
Last July, we wrote an article about "the obstruction of INRAP", which did not want to give access to the fragments of sculptures from the rood screen of the cathedral discovered during the…
There is no end to the litany of historic monuments in France and elsewhere in Europe that have gone up in flames while work was underway to restore them. This time it’s Denmark’s turn to be hit by…
Notre-Dame should not be a playground for the French President of the Republic or the Archbishop of Paris. No doubt they think they have some legitimacy in the decisions they take, but they have…
Following on from Versailles, the Noël Coypel retrospective is now on show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. But they are not the same exhibition, even though the two share a common catalogue.…
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Only enthusiasts of 20th-century decorative arts are likely to be familiar with the exceptional pieces by Raymond Subes and Jean Mayodon housed in Sens: the two friends, who probably met at the…
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She is an ideal ambassador to welcome the many visitors to this fascinating exhibition, which is the result of an intelligent and fruitful collaboration between two regional institutions: the…
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At the 1855 Universal Exhibition, which took the place of the Salon and where foreign schools came to confront the French school, the latter put four painters in the limelight, who benefited from…
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The discovery or rediscovery of paintings attributed to great masters is a regular occurrence in art history. Attribution is not an exact science, and the identity of the authors of certain works…
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When we met the new director of Rouen’s museums at a press briefing, he told us about the "vast architectural and museographic renovation project" for the two museums in the rue Beauvoisine, the…
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…
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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This week we talk to Nicolas Schwed, a drawing dealer in Paris. He regularly organises exhibitions in his Paris gallery, which we often report on here, and talks to us about drawing collectors,…
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Cette semaine, nous recevons Rodolphe Rapetti, le directeur du château de Compiègne. Nous avons récemment consacré plusieurs articles à ce château-musée à propos de la réouverture du Musée de…
It’s been over a year since we last produced a podcast, mainly due to time constraints. We’re going to try to be more regular in future, but we prefer not to commit ourselves unless we’re sure we…
For the first time, in our program "L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art" we receive a politician, Pierre Ouzoulias, communist senator of the Hauts-de-Seine, vice-president of the Commission of culture,…
Jérôme Tomaselli is a passionate and fascinating collector, an art bulimic who has assembled an impressive collection of paintings and drawings from Lyon (but not only) from all periods and who has…
Nous recevons cette semaine comme invitée de La Tribune de l’Art l’historienne de l’art indépendante Jane MacAvock, qui vient nous parler notamment de Jean Daret, le peintre provençal dont elle est la…
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