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Art and Culture

Tony Cragg at Boboli
Vaux-le-Vicomte: halfway between the public and private sectors
The Benkemoun Villa: an architectural rebirth
Balenciaga and Spanish painting
Berthe Morisot: from obscurity to light
Exhibitions
Félix Fénéon's wild instincts
On 11 and 13 June 1947, Drouot auctioned one of the first major non-western art collections: Félix Fénéon's, with its 457 pieces. It was historic in…
Analyses
MoCo: a new art ecosystem in the South of France
In Montpellier, a new entity aims to reshuffle the cards of contemporary art on a national and global scale, starting with the renovation of a private…
Heritage
Versailles and women
Disregarded in the 20 th century, queens and kings’ mistresses nonetheless left their mark within the château. Thanks to recent research, the Palace…
Exhibitions
Dora Maar, the hidden woman
Photographer, painter, activist: Dora Maar was much more than The Weeping Woman Picasso painted in 1937. The Centre Pompidou retrospective, Paris,…
Analyses
Lacquer: a constantly developing expertise
Discovered nearly three thousand years ago, “Chinese varnish” developed throughout South-East Asia. Today, the unique properties of this material are…
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Vaux-le-Vicomte: halfway between the public and private sectors
A memorable gift
An outpost in Versailles for the Osenat auction house
The Martel brothers in Saint-Jean-de-Luz
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20 September 2019 - 05:40
Ancient relics restored by French diggers to returned to Sudan
20 September 2019 - 03:11
Mami Kataoka to succeed Fumi Nanjo as Mori Art Museum director
20 September 2019 - 11:38
Death of Italian photographer of Land Art Gianfranco Gorgoni, aged 77
20 September 2019 - 10:44
Study by artnet and In Other Words sheds light on art world’s gender disparities
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Analyses
MoCo: a new art ecosystem in the South of France
In Montpellier, a new entity aims to reshuffle the cards of contemporary…
Heritage
Vaux-le-Vicomte: halfway between the public and private…
Fifty years after welcoming its first visitors, the château is facing…
Exhibitions
Tony Cragg at Boboli
The combination of the extraordinary setting of the Boboli gardens…
Exhibitions
Fantasy versions of Versailles
Here we see things that never happened, but might have, with the many faces of Versailles: residence of sovereigns from Louis XIV to Louis-Philippe.…
Exhibitions
Venice Biennale: a lacklustre year
Ralph Rugoff is head curator of the international selection of the 58 th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art at the Arsenale and in the central pavilion,…
Exhibitions
Luc Tuymans: beneath the skin
The Palazzo Grassi is featuring his art of avoidance before a retrospective scheduled this summer at Tilburg, in the Netherlands.
Exhibitions
Black Models
The Musée d’Orsay is hosting a groundbreaking exhibition that stretches its temporal boundaries to explore the role of black figures in the birth of…