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Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Some museums are lucky enough to have a good fairy watching over them ; the one at the Denver Art Museum is 85 years old, made his money in the oil business and his name is Frederic C. Hamilton. This collector, who was on the msueum's Board of (...)
Le Havre, "a sea port which intends to remain that way", as General de Gaulle might have said, was a "temple of commerce and money" at the turn of the 20th century, built notably thanks to the importation of coffee, cotton, spices and wood. The (...)
Pursuing a dynamic acquisitions policy over the last four years, the Clark Institute has enriched its collections with art objects, sculptures, drawings and paintings. First off, in ceramics, a cup and saucer in hard-paste porcelain (acquired in (...)
« How strange and what a coincidence » would say the Martins in Ionesco’s The Bald-Headed Soprano. The RMN and the musée d’Orsay announced the great Monet retrospective two years ago, so it seems indeed curious that Jacques Taddei, an eminent (...)
True, the festival, “Normandie Impressioniste” is above all a marketing ploy, a communications operation promoted by Laurent Fabius under the sponsorship of Pierre Bergé and Jérôme Clément. The exhibitions organized for the occasion were cause for (...)
In 2005, Simon Sainsbury, the grandson of John Sainsbury, founder of the famous chain of supermarkets, had donated the funds for an expansion at the National Gallery which is known today as the Sainsbury (...)
Everyone has heard by now that the canvas of Claude Monet’s painting Le Pont d’Argenteuil was punched in by drunken vandals who forced their way into the museum late Saturday night. The
