This review could have just as easily appeared in the Publications section. Indeed, the exhibition organized by the Bibliothèque Marmottan accompanies the monographic study published by Isabelle (...)
They are all here. All those who Nerval said were the sons of this « Germany, a mother to us all ». Yes, every single one, from the best-known – Friedrich, Runge, Carus, Füssli (who was Swiss but (...)
The Poussin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, which arrived here from Bilbao, cannot be reduced to its title alone. First of all because it is a veritable retrospective given the continuous (...)
Baccio Bandinelli. Peintures et dessins du Louvre. Paris, Musée du Louvre, du 21 février au 26 mai 2008
Only a few weeks after the exhibition on Polidoro da Caravaggio’s drawings ended, the Louvre (...)
It seems that only the English know how to look at and exhibit decorative arts as a living matter, reflecting its strong hold over those who have made them an everyday companion in their lives or (...)
Englishmen passing through Rome on their Grand Tour, the trip through Europe that any true aristocrat had to take, wanted their portrait done by him. This is probably why Pompeo Batoni, one of (...)
The Louvre is still offering great deals. If you are a millionaire and would like to organize an exhibition, this is definitely the place to come: ask for a couple of masterpieces and it will see you get them on condition you pay the right price. It seems that only the Mona Lisa is not for rent. At least officially. But you can have any other Leonardo you want.
At a time when it appears there can never be too many exhibitions on Italian renaissance painting and Titian in particular (as noted e.g. by Christophe Brouard’s review of the Titian exhibition at (...)
Some art historians of Neoclassicism use the expression “the three G’s� in designating David’s leading students: Girodet, Gros and Gérard to whom they at times add a fourth, Guérin, although he (...)
Crowds are flooding the Tate Britain and museum goers will never feel lonely when visiting the seven galleries composing this amazing exhibition. Even the late landscapes, the last moment of a (...)
Not many exhibitions offer such a wide selection of truly international works as the one assembled currently at the British Library by its curator Stephen Bury, who has been gently chided for (...)
With American culture ever more present in Europe, for better or worse, it is strange that XIXth C. painting and sculpture in the United States have been so overlooked. Still, it is often the (...)
In the planning at the Musée d’Orsay for a long time, the Alexandre Charpentier exhibition opened one year prior to the one hundredth anniversary of the death of this remarkable artist who has (...)
While XVIIth century French painting has often been highlighted in the past few years in several publications, these tend to reproduce the same works. The major virtue of this issue of Dossiers (...)
By: Bruno Foucart and collected authors
A volume of texts selected by Bruno Foucart was expected in early 2008, but now Norma editions has pleasantly surprised its readers, as well as the author (...)
Jean-Patrice Marandel has been a curator at the LACMA for almost 15 years now. He is especially active in his acquisitions policy which is particularly discerning, often favoring Old Masters, (...)
Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Bozar Expo), from 14 february to 18 may 2008.
The press release begins by saying : « The exhibition[…] comes straight from the imagination of Laurent Busine, (...)
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) has just had a retrospective devoted to his “Camden Town Murder� series, but other members of the “Camden Town Group� which he founded in 1911 have not benefited from the (...)
In 1988, the Musée Calvet in Avignon (ill. 1), housed in a beautiful XVIIIth century mansion built by the architect Franque, closed its doors for renovations that were supposed to last four years. (...)
Every year, the Societe du Salon du Dessin organizes a colloquium on drawings. The ones to be held in 2008 and 2009 will be devoted to those by sculptors. We met Guilhem Scherf, head curator for (...)
“Oh, what a bunch of naughty boys!�, “They really had some cheek!�, might be some of the silent exclamations visitors to the exhibition of this bawdy trio at the Tate Modern will make when they are (...)