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 (...)
Fashion week in Paris, the meeting place for the world's designers and couturiers. How does it relate to art history ? Apparently thanks to Impressionism, as stylish as ever, as "in" as today's jeans (created at about the same time). In fact, in (...)
Oliver Meslay left the Louvre almost two years ago to take over as curator at the Dallas Museum of Art, in charge of European and American art. Several works have been acquired since he arrived. The following are the most important (...)
Between 1860 and 1900, Paris underwent transformations no other major European metropolis has known. Whole areas were totally demolished, disembowelled and rebuilt in the name of public health and ease of circulation. The controversial (...)
The only fault of the exhibitions generally held at the Fondation Custodia is that they are too short. This one, although based on its own collections, follows the rule as it will have lasted only two months whereas New Yorkers were able to (...)