Those accustomed to the Dutch museum’s exhibitions will not be disappointed: this is first and foremost the absolute joy of painting, the dazzling freedom of the brushstrokes, the admirable…
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Frans Hals in Amsterdam
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 14 - 8/5/24 : Héléna et Guy Motais de Narbonne
Cette semaine, nous recevons, ou plutôt nous avons été reçu, car l’émission a été enregistrée chez…
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Predictions. Artists face the future
La sibylle de Panzoust dévoilait à ses visiteurs d’abord leur avenir puis son postérieur. Panurge…
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Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). The voice of the forest
Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). La voix de la forêt Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la…
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A tapestry by Gerhard Munthe acquired by Orsay
Purchased from the Oscar Graf gallery, a large tapestry by the Norwegian Gerhard Munthe joins…
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Hélène Duret to succeed Bruno Gaudichon
One of France’s most endearing and unique museums is about to undergo a change of leadership…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 13 - 1/5/24 : Pierre Stepanoff
Cette semaine, nous recevons Pierre Stepanoff, directeur des Musées d’Amiens, et notamment du…
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A Manfredi for the Getty
It’s a happy company, at least at first sight. A group of men are drinking wine around an improvised table that looks like an ancient Roman altar, while listening to one of them play the lute.…
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Marie and Félix Bracquemond on sale at Artcurial
First and foremost, this is an exhibition not to be missed under any circumstances, even if it is unfortunately only open this Friday, Saturday and then Monday before the sale of the entire…
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Two new busts by Charles Cordier for Orsay
Two new busts by Charles Cordier have been added to the fine collection of works by this pioneer of polychrome sculpture under the Second Empire already held by the Musée d’Orsay, which initiated…
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An unpublished drawing by Goltzius enters the Fondation Custodia
Alors que va ouvrir dans deux jours une exposition consacrée aux douze années d’acquisitions faites par le regretté Ger Luijten, disparu il y a maintenant plus d’un an, celle-ci vient d’acquérir, en…
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Policy
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Budget cancellations: a new blow to France’s heritage
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…
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Rachida Dati’s hot heritage issues in Paris
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…
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Madam Minister for Culture, don’t let yourself be fooled by Vianney d’Alançon
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…
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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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Impossible to escape the Olympic Games
"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,…
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The French Ministry of Culture requests the removal of a non-compliant installation
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…
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Fragments of the rood screen at Notre-Dame finally revealed
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…
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From Copenhagen to Paris
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…
Exhibitions
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Great decors restored from Notre-Dame de Paris
The exhibition that the Louvre should have organised is finally being staged by the Mobilier national, and so much the better, as its spaces are perfectly suited to hanging large-format…
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Claude Lorrain. Drawings and etchings
For specialists, this is no surprise, but for everyone else it’s a real revelation: thanks to the Duc d’Aumale, the Château de Chantilly conserves a collection of graphic works by Claude Lorrain of…
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Noël Coypel, painter to the King
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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Jean Mayodon. Precious earth
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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Museums
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Géricaults rediscovered in museums? Really?
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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The Beauvoisine Museum in Rouen: a ruinous and destructive project
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…
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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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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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Art Market
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The third Paris Print Fair Subscriber content
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The "Semaine du Dessin" in Paris galleries (5) Subscriber content
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The "Semaine du Dessin" in Paris galleries (3) Subscriber content
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The Salon du Dessin 2024 is now open Subscriber content
Itineraries
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A French artist’s decor at Sant’Andrea al Quirinale Subscriber content
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A visit to the church of Saint-Rémy in Troyes Subscriber content
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Découverte d’une peinture murale d’Amaury-Duval et de son esquisse Subscriber content
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Le Musée de Semur-en-Auxois, un voyage dans le temps Subscriber content
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Ouvrages reçus du 17 novembre 2023 au 18 avril 2024 Subscriber content
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Pierre Subleyras 1699-1749 Subscriber content
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Just published: books received from 27 July to 16 November 2023 Subscriber content
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Just published: books received from 1st April to 26 July 2023 Subscriber content
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 12 - 24/4/24 : Olivia Voisin
Cette semaine, nous recevons Olivia Voisin, directrice des musées d’Orléans, et notamment du Musée des Beaux-Arts. Elle nous parle de ce musée (et des autres), de sa politique d’acquisition très…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 11 - 17/4/24 : Nicolas Schwed
Cette semaine, nous recevons Nicolas Schwed, marchand de dessins à Paris. Celui-ci, qui organise notamment régulièrement des expositions dans sa galerie parisienne dont nous rendons compte souvent…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 10 - 10/4/24 : Rodolphe Rapetti
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…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 9 - 3/4/24 : Alexandre d’Andoque
Cela fait plus d’un an que nous n’avions pas produit de podcast, pour des raisons de temps essentiellement. Nous allons essayer d’être plus régulier à l’avenir, mais nous préférons ne pas nous engager…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 8 - 28/2/23 : Pierre Ouzoulias
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,…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 7 - 17/2/23 : Jérôme Tomaselli
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…