Mardi 21 mai 2013
Last update on 17/05/2013
Last update on 17/05/2013
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Paul Salmona will take over as head of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme next 8 April, succeeding Laurent Héricher and Laurence Sigal, who founded the institution and with whom he had organized a colloquium on L'Archéologie du judaïsme en (...)
Although everyone was predicting Sylvie Ramond - the French Minister of Culture's choice -, the official appointment will name instead, according to our sources, Jean-Luc Martinez, 49, as President-Director of the Louvre, during the Council of (...)
Colin Bailey has just been appointed, starting 1st June, as head of the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco, that is two establishments, the Legion of Honor and the De Young Museum. This institution had been left without a director since the (...)
Anne Dary, currently chief curator at the Musées du Jura has been appointed to take over as head of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes starting 1st October 2012, replacing Francis Ribemont who has announced his retirement. Previously, Anne Dary (...)
Philippe Bélaval, the Directeur général des patrimoines at the French Ministry of Culture, handed in his resignation and, according to our sources, will become the president of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux as of next 1st July, succeeding (...)
The exhibition which recently opened at the Galerie des Gobelins, in its Parisian version, Poussin et l'histoire de Moïse is accompanied by a momentous event for the history of this institution with the retirement of Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée, (...)
With the current director, André Cariou, now leaving for retirement, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper has appointed Guillaume Ambroise to head the institution as of September 1st. Guillaume Ambroise, formerly director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts (...)
The Commission interministérielle d'agrément pour la conservation du patrimoine artistique national, better known as the "Acceptance in lieu Commission", holds an important role : it submits its proposals to the French Minister of the Budget to (...)
Currently Chief curator for heritage at the Musée d'Orsay, Catherine Chevillot has been appointed director of the Musée Rodin, replacing Dominique Viéville. After completing a DEA (a graduate degree) in contemporary and modern art history on (...)
As the city of Tours did not wish to reconsider the question of a raise for Philippe Le Leyzour, recently appointed Conservateur général du Patrimoine, he will no longer remain as director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in this city and will finish (...)
The rumor that Jean-François Hébert was resigning from the Maison de l'Histoire de France had been circulating for the last few days. President of the château de Fontainebleau, he told us that this was not a resignation but in fact the end of his (...)
The Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterand, has proposed the name of Nicolas Bourriaud as Director of the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts to the President of the Republic. This appointment, although not yet official, can thus be (...)
Last 24 October marked the official retirement of Rosalind Savill who handed over the reins as head of the Wallace Collection to Christoph Vogtherr, the curator for pre-1800 works at this museum since 2007 and whose appointment had been known (...)
An appointment, acquisitions, a restoration, publications... Events at the Frick Collection have moved briskly of late. The foremost of these is the new face of this prestigious establishment, Ian Wardropper, appointed director of the Frick (...)
A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre then, in 2000, of the Institut National du Patrimoine, Sophie Harant was appointed head of the Musée Bonnat in Bayonne on 2 August 2010. Her museum career began in Quimper where she was deputy director for one (...)
Xavier Bray replaced Xavier F. Salomon, after his departure to the Metropolitan Museum, as the chief curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery beginning of January 2011. Born in 1972, Xavier Bray holds dual citizenship, British and French. He (...)
It always helps to look on the bright side of things. Thus, the appointment of an administrator from the ENA (French National Administration School) which had been seriously considered by the Ministry of (...)
It was the most awaited nomination in the museum world. Thomas Campbell has just been named director of the Metropolitan Museum succeeding Philippe de Montebello who
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Antonio Paolucci Director of the Vatican Museums, replacing the archeologist Francesco Buranelli who has completed his five-year term in the position and has now taken over as head of the secretariat for the (...)
Nicholas Penny, senior curator for sculptures at the National Gallery in Washington since 2002, will be appointed Director of the National Gallery in London as soon as the British Prime Minister,
A French woman, Nathalie Bondil, will succeed Guy Cogeval who resigned last November, at the head of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. She has already been serving as interim director since the beginning of the (...)
The most Francophile of the German art historians, Thomas Gaehtgens, founder and currently director of the German Center for Art History in Paris, has just been appointed as director of the Getty Research (...)
