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Art and Culture

Bacon's reading: the dangers of the too-exclusive
Tony Cragg at Boboli
Vaux-le-Vicomte: halfway between the public and private sectors
The Benkemoun Villa: an architectural rebirth
Balenciaga and Spanish painting
Exhibitions
Berthe Morisot: from obscurity to light
Forgotten in the early 20 th century, this key figure in Impressionism was rediscovered during the 1970s. The Musée d’Orsay is now doing her justice.…
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…
Cultural Heritage
Women and Versailles
Disregarded in the 20 th- century, women, both queens and kings’ mistresses, left their mark in the heart of the château. Thanks to recent research,…
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,…
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2021 Opens with "Drouot Déco"
Artsy and the myth of Sisyphus
Jean Dunand and the Normandie: A Temple of Art Deco
Pierre Rosenberg the Collector
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A Rare Giuseppe Guarneri Violin Threatens to Unravel Germany’s Commitment to Restitution
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A Basquiat Work in the Form of a Stamp
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A Surprising Guido Reni Work Up For Auction
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The Spanish Far-Right Has a New Target: A Feminist Mural
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Analyses
The End of the Issenheim Altarpiece’s Restoration is…
The last stage of the Issenheim altarpiece’s restoration is underway,…
Cultural Heritage
Père Lachaise: Birthplace of the Modern Resting Plac…
Père Lachaise Cemetery welcomes 3.5 million visitors each year to…
Exhibitions
2021 Opens with "Drouot Déco"
The year’s first installment of "Drouot Déco", a regular exhibition…
Opinion
Did Black Lives Matter to Phillip Johnson?
As the impact of the Black Lives Matter and #metoo movements reverberates…
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…
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.