This article inaugurates a series which, alas, threatens to be a long one: that of closed museums, either partially or totally, those abandoned by cities in a state of vegetation and with no (...)
The Alsatian community of Wintzenheim, near Colmar, had made the news sadly a few months ago in devastating the exterior sculptures of the Hertzog chapel (see article). A Neo-Gothic construction (...)
The goal of the exhibition organized at the Musée Cantini is to understand the relationship between theatre and painting from the second half of the 18th century to the early 20th. This is (...)
The Sacred Made Real is a result of Xavier Bray’s enthusiasm and perseverance. Curator of Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery in London, he is naturally the curator of this exhibition, (...)
The Musée de Montmartre is managed by the Société du Vieux Montmartre which originated in 1886 and since 1960 is located in one of the oldest houses on the hill (ill. 1), dating from the 17th (...)
ENI, an Italian firm, is one of the world’s largest petroleum companies. Its turnover in 2008 totaled 108 billion euros resulting in profits of 8.8 billion. ENI, thus has money, lots of it, which it uses at times as an arts patron. Thus the Louvre received aid for its exhibitions on Mantegna and the one currently showing under the pyramid, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese. Rivalry in Venice. Both exhibitions were extremely successful. It will also finance a retrospective highlighting Raphael’s last years in 2012.
This exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York where it was presented from June to September 2009. Curators from both museums have thus worked jointly (...)
Before opening at the Grand Palais on 22 February of next year, Turner and the Master has welcomed its first visitors, both numerous and enthusiastic, in London. This is due reward for a (...)
Her name always linked to her master Fragonard – and the current exhibition is no exception to the rule – Marguerite Gérard always had a difficult time existing in her own right in the eyes of later (...)
Though Art Nouveau is today a major and undisputed category in art history and is correctly considered one of the great moments of our civilization, we tend to forget at times the scorn and (...)
In December 1913, a few months after he died, Fernand Pelez’ friends and family organized a retrospective of his work in his sumptuous workshop, at the foot of Montmartre: half a century of an (...)
Although productions of French and Belgian Art Nouveau, as well as those from other Eastern European countries, had been highlighted in major exhibitions in France and Europe, Tiffany, this (...)
Writing to his brother, on Sunday 25 March 1888, Van Gogh remarked: “it might be interesting to save correspondence between artists.” This letter, which deserves to be preserved and studied, had (...)
Some books defy critical review. It would be easier to simply not even attempt it and brush them off politely but this has not been our choice of solution. The lack of a monographic study on (...)
The Musée de Blois organized a long-term exhibition at the same time it published its catalogue of 16th to 18th century paintings, starting in late 2008 and continuing until 20 October of this (...)
The Syndicat National des Antiquaires has just awarded its art book prize to Nicolas Régnier by Annick Lemoine. It rewards a remarkable monographic study, both erudite and pleasantly readable, (...)
An understated establishment devoted to a somewhat misunderstood painter, the Musée Henner had closed its doors in 2005 for a complete renovation. It reopened to the public last Saturday, 7 (...)
A little over a year and a half after his appointment at the head of the Musée d’Orsay, Guy Cogeval organized a press conference a few days ago to present the project for reorganizing the (...)
A meeting involving various ministries was held last 15 September with the purpose of determining the “Valorization of the Hôtel de la Marine”. In the minds of our political leaders, this monument (...)
During the night of 28 August 2009, after several years of quiet fighting, fate finally struck and the Villa Aghion built by the Perret brothers in Alexandria in 1926-1927 was gutted by (...)