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Cultural Heritage

Published on 05 July 2024

Géricault’s Horses at the Musée de la Vie Romantique: Untangling Fact from Fiction

Art historians have slammed the exhibition’s lack of scientific rigor, while dozens of previously unseen works raise serious attribution issues.

Géricault’s Horses at the Musée de la Vie Romantique: Untangling Fact from Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Published on 26 October 2022

Notre-Dame de Paris Deserves More Than a Mass

The new assessment of the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris by the Cour des Comptes has received little attention, even though it addresses the...

Notre-Dame de Paris Deserves More Than a Mass - Opinion

Published on 07 September 2022

ICOM: A Shared Definition Brings Down the Temperature in the World of Museums

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has returned to its senses. On August 24, in Prague the organization, which has about 50,000 members, adopted...

ICOM: A Shared Definition Brings Down the Temperature in the World of Museums - Opinion

Published on 02 June 2022

The Former Louvre Director Has Been Charged in an Antiquities Trafficking Case

Jean-Luc Martinez’s indictment resulting from the investigation of a vast international Middle Eastern antiquities trafficking ring is shaking up the...

The Former Louvre Director Has Been Charged in an Antiquities Trafficking Case - Opinion

Published on 06 April 2022

Sam Stourdzé: Towards the Rebirth of the Villa Medici

Sam Stourdzé, 49, has been director of the French Academy in Rome since September 2020. The photography and cinema specialist talks about his determination...

Sam Stourdzé: Towards the Rebirth of the Villa Medici - Interviews

Published on 04 February 2022

Art Basel Ejects the FIAC

Against the backdrop of a fiercely competitive international art market, the Swiss group MCH, the owner of Art Basel, is dislodging the FIAC from the...

Art Basel Ejects the FIAC - Fairs

Published on 10 November 2021

The Future of Venice: Between Disillusion and Fantasy

Venice, one of humanity's uncontested cultural jewels, has cried out in despair on the eve of COP26.

The Future of Venice: Between Disillusion and Fantasy - Opinion

Published on 14 October 2021

Drouot’s Round Table: Can Religious Art Still Be Sold?

Drouot is hosting a series of panel discussions on issues involving the art market. A precedent-setting decision was made public at the first round...

Drouot’s Round Table: Can Religious Art Still Be Sold? - Market Trends

Published on 08 July 2021

Restitutions: France Is Still Putting Up Resistance

Over two decades ago, France’s representative to an international conference in Stockholm on the restitution of Nazi-looted artworks told me that the...

Restitutions: France Is Still Putting Up Resistance - Opinion

Published on 18 May 2021

Strike MoMA Continues With Weekly Protests

With the ten-week strike against MoMA in full swing, Director Glenn D. Lowry resorts to cynical crisis management rather than creative engagement.

Strike MoMA Continues With Weekly Protests - Opinion

Published on 06 May 2021

Did Leonardo da Vinci Paint Salvator Mundi? The Louvre Has an Answer.

La Gazette has obtained a copy of the Louvre’s scientific paper confirming Salvator Mundi’s attribution to the Florentine painter.

Did Leonardo da Vinci Paint Salvator Mundi? The Louvre Has an Answer. - Market Trends

Cultural Heritage

Published on 29 April 2021

The Walters Art Museum Confronts Its Founders’ Confederate Legacy

The origins of the Walters Art Museum date back to 1931, when Henry Walters bequeathed to the city of Baltimore an extensive art collection started...

The Walters Art Museum Confronts Its Founders’ Confederate Legacy - Cultural Heritage

Published on 15 April 2021

Dismantling the Museum: Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Cultural Restitution

In his recent book The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks calls for the radical rethinking of Western museums. He uses the case of the Benin Bronzes to call...

Dismantling the Museum: Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Cultural Restitution - Analyses

Published on 08 April 2021

Strike MoMA Begins Dismantling One of NYC’s Flagship Museums

A coalition of New York City community activists, museum workers and artists has called for a ten-week strike against the Museum of Modern Art as a...

Strike MoMA Begins Dismantling One of NYC’s Flagship Museums - Opinion

Published on 02 April 2021

The Paris Biennale and the Fatal Fakes

The Biennale de Paris soon to be replaced by EX.Paris – Ed. has ceased to exist without reaching its 50th anniversary.

The Paris Biennale and the Fatal Fakes - Opinion

Published on 24 March 2021

Jean-Luc Martinez: Reopening the Louvre’s Royal Apartments to the Public

The controversy over altering the Louvre’s Greek and Roman Bronze Rooms erupted at the end of a building project that occupied an entire wing of the...

Jean-Luc Martinez: Reopening the Louvre’s Royal Apartments to the Public - Interviews

Published on 26 February 2021

The Louvre and Cy Twombly: The Ceiling of Discord

The squabble between the Louvre and the Cy Twombly Foundation over the renovation of the salle des bronzes, whose ceiling the artist frescoed in 2010,...

The Louvre and Cy Twombly: The Ceiling of Discord - Opinion

Published on 17 February 2021

French State Seizes Historic Saint Denis Windows Right Before Auction

The forced withdrawal from a January 27 Pierre Bergé sale at Drouot of two stained glass windows from the abbey church of Saint Denis illustrates the...

French State Seizes Historic Saint Denis Windows Right Before Auction - Opinion

Published on 11 January 2021

Did Black Lives Matter to Phillip Johnson?

As the impact of the Black Lives Matter and #metoo movements reverberates across our societies, architects are increasingly joining the call for change....

Did Black Lives Matter to Phillip Johnson? - Opinion

Published on 08 October 2020

Gabrielle Chanel and Philip Guston: The Museums Are on the Horns of a Dilemma

Two countries, two cultures, a world of difference: The coincidence between the Philip Guston retrospective’s postponement and the naming of the new...

Gabrielle Chanel and Philip Guston: The Museums Are on the Horns of a Dilemma - Opinion

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