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Louvre-Lens

  • News Items : La Liberté Vandalized at the Louvre in Lens 11/02/2013

    A terse press release from the Louvre has just confirmed the news which had spread on Twitter last night : a woman visiting the Louvre-Lens scribbled an inscription with a marker on the lower part of La Liberté Guidant le Peuple by Delacroix and (...)

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  • Museums : The Opening of the Louvre-Lens 06/12/2012

    In the December issue of The Art Newspaper, Vincent Pomarède, director of the Département des peintures at the Musée du Louvre, responded to our criticism of the Louvre Lens, notably the "Galerie du Temps" for which he is one of the curators, with (...)

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  • News Items : The Amis du Louvre Will Pay to See the Works in Lens 02/12/2012

    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 (...)

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  • Museums : The Louvre Invents the Gruyère Museum 03/10/2012

    Many of you probably remember the words spoken above by the president of the Louvre during an interview in Le Figaro. We had already pointed out that there was no need to wait for the Louvre-Lens to observe the holes, the Louvre was full of (...)

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  • Editorial : Insulted Publicly by the Mayor of Lens 12/06/2012

    Not satisfied with having prevented me from participating in a debate organized by the association Les Obsédés Textuels which had invited me to the media center in Lens, the mayor of the city insulted me publicly in the 8 June 2012 issue of (...)

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  • News Items : The Mayor of Lens Censures The Art Tribune 06/06/2012

    We had already been boycotted by a Minister from the political right, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, who prevented us from participating in the press conferences at the French Ministry of Culture, and been censured by the president of a public (...)

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  • Editorial : The Incredible Intellectual Void of the Louvre-Lens 19/04/2012

    Whether one is for or against the principle behind the Louvre-Lens, one aspect is sure to elicit unanimous agreement : the incredible intellectual void of this project. The works which are to be exhibited in the "Galerie du Temps" (the name (...)

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  • Museums : Delacroix’s La Liberté, Ingres’ Monsieur Bertin, Rahael’s Balthazar Castiglione or the Louvre Beheaded by Lens 17/04/2012

    The embargo on this information will be lifted tomorrow morning. However, since The Art Tribune has not received any information from the Louvre on the subject, this embargo does not concern us and we have chosen to discuss it (...)

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