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Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Two associations, SOS Paris and the Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux today published a press release in reaction to the listing of two churches as part of imperilled world heritage monuments, entitled "Cri d'alarme pour les églises de Paris" (...)
The mission of the World Monument Fund is to help safeguard architectural masterpieces from serious threat, by contributing to their restoration in association with the official institutions in charge of their conservation and by publishing on a (...)
Following the article entitled "A New Feudal System" by Mr. Didier Rykner, and in keeping with the freedom of expression he defends, Orleans City Hall would like to make some corrections and reestablish the (...)
Does an elected official have the right to do whatever he likes ? This is in any case the impression given by more and more mayors who deliberately ignore the law and court decisions. The State seems to have patently resigned itself to this new (...)
Le Figaro Magazine published it "confidentially" last weekend, but the name had been rumored for several weeks already, practically since Henri Loyrette announced he did not wish to renew his position as president of the Louvre. We knew it but (...)
The covered market in Fontainebleau, built during WWII, falls slightly outside The Art Tribune's chronological field, which is why we had not discussed it earlier. But this affair sets an example and is worth retelling, especially since the (...)
During a recent exhibition highlighting Algeria, the honorary keys to Algiers which Dey Hussein handed over to the French army after the fall of the city on 5 July 1830, thus belonging to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris, were on view and in fact (...)
Henri Loyrette likes to say that the works exhibited at the Louvre-Lens have not left the Louvre since the Louvre-Lens is the Louvre ! In an interview with Le Figaro published on 16 April 2012, he explained that "[the works] are not leaving the (...)
Now president of the CMN, Philippe Bélaval presented the future policy of this public establishment which is in charge of managing about one hundred historical monuments. Like all the large public establishments and the French Ministry of Culture (...)
As expected since the government expressed its opposition and the Socialist Party its decision to vote it down, the amendment to article 9 of the 2013 Finance Law bill which provided for the inclusion of art works in the ISF or French wealth tax (...)
The choice of a high-ranking public official, Vincent Berjot, who has spent his entire career at the Ministry of Finance to become Directeur général des patrimoines at the Ministry of Culture, vacant for almost four months now, is very symbolic in (...)
A bit like the question of deaccessioning museum collections, the proposal on including art works as part of the wealth tax comes up periodically for discussion. This proves, once more, the absolute incompetence of some of our leaders in the (...)
The new French Minister of Culture had started out her term in what appeared to be a promising way and we had heartily commended her initial decisions. Since then, the announcement of the cultural budget, followed by its detailed presentation, (...)
This sidestepping is a first in journalistic history. We thought that the new French Minister of Culture had a certain amount of courage. We were perhaps wrong. For the first time ever, the budget will not be presented to the Ministry during a (...)
Apparently, we will now have to inaugurate a series of articles tentatively entitled "I promise that the cultural budget will be entirely protected during the next presidential term". In fact, a few days ago the Directions Regionales des (...)
Who said last 19 January : "I promise that the cultural budget will be entirely protected during the next presidential term." ? The President of the French Republic, elected a few weeks later, François Hollande. Why did the media - and we were (...)
The abandonment of the project for the Maison de l'Histoire de France, announced on France-Inter Radio by Aurélie Filippetti, French Minister of Culture, and confirmed by her on 10 October in Le Monde obviously comes as no surprise. The lack of (...)
The Art Tribune does not take political stands. We are here to denounce threats to historical heritage from both the left and the right. As such, we did not spare previous governments, eliciting accusations of "leftist" by one or two readers who (...)
Aurelie Filippetti, French Minister of Culture, has made the remarkable, and above all exemplary, decision to file an application requesting that the 18 buildings representing the southern front of the Rue des Carmes in Orleans be listed as a (...)
We have often said here that although certain historical monuments belonging to the State did not necessarily have to remain property of the government (notably private residences), other listed buildings should continue to belong to everyone (...)
A few days ago, we wondered about the new French Cultural Minister's position concerning the unprecedented attack by the Ministry of the Budget against business patronage, which would cut fiscal deductions by half. Aurélie Filippetti has since (...)
We had passed on the information revealed by Vince Noce in Libération here on our site, concerning the French Budget Ministry's wish to cut fiscal deductions for patronage by half. The news was confirmed today in the same newspaper by Aurélie (...)
In an article published Monday, 11 June on liberation.fr (but not, or not yet, in its paper edition), Vincent Noce reveals that the French Ministry of the Budget is planning "to reduce by half the deduction offered to companies for their (...)
It comes as no surprise : Aurélie Filippetti has been appointed as the French Minister of Culture and Communications in the first government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, under the newly elected President François Hollande. At only 38, she (...)
With several investigations related to cultural heritage and museums currently underway, we find that all of the questions we have addressed to Directeurs Regionaux des Affaires Culturelles or their deputies are mysteriously answered in the same (...)
Compared to certain European countries, the French Culture budget has been spared drastic cuts. But we also know that numbers can be easily manipulated. And that the bill for revising the Finance Law continuously amends - lowering but never (...)
