Tag: Arts
A fashion exhibition combined with the feminine plural
A photo of the Japanese Yuriko Takagi exhibited alongside models from the Dior house. ADRIEN DIRAND “We should all be feminists”. At the entrance to La Galerie Dior, a giant…
The mysteries of the lady by Klimt
“Portrait of a Lady”, by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). COSTS Look for the woman The writer Camille de Peretti, who publishes this January return The Unknown Portrait (Calmann-Lévy), discovered the Portrait…
French museums record record attendance in 2023
The entrance to the Louvre Museum, in Paris, in June 2022. STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP Boosted by tourism, French museums and monuments are almost all showing increasing attendance. The Louvre occupies, unsurprisingly,…
A Van Gogh looted by the Nazis embarrasses Japan
“Sunflowers”, by Vincent Van Gogh, exhibited at the Sompo Museum, in Tokyo, July 9, 2020. TOSHIAKI SHIMIZU / THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN VIA AFP The seven paintings representing Sunflowers, painted by…
“The Origin of the World”, backdrop of Lacanian psychoanalysis
“The Origin of the World”, by Gustave Courbet (1866). HERVE LEWANDOWSKI / RMN-GRAND PALAIS (MUSÉ D’ORSAY) Scandals caused by works of art are like fresh flowers. They are bright but…
After the theft of a work by Banksy in London, just after its unveiling, two people arrested
A man removes a Banksy artwork, which shows what looks like three drones on a traffic stop sign, which was unveiled at the intersection of Southampton Way and Commercial Way…
At the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram Hunt wants to change the British debate on restitutions
The facade of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, September 2018. ALINANGEL/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Tristram Hunt, 49, has been, since 2017, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum…
the first owners cannot cancel their sale
The “Ngil” mask of the Fang people of Gabon sold at auction for 4.2 million euros, on March 26, 2022, at the Montpellier auction house. PASCAL GUYOT / AFP The…
Jack Lang extended but not yet reappointed as head of the Arab World Institute
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the president of the IMA, Jack Lang (center), and the French writer Jacques Attali, in Algiers, August 26, 2022. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP…
The president of the Society of Friends of the Louvre in the hot seat
At 78 years old, Louis-Antoine Prat still has the eye and the mustache that evoke his strokes of brilliance, whether they are the trophies that he brought into the collections…
The law on patronage celebrates its 20th anniversary while awaiting enrichment
At the conference organized Monday, December 11, at the Guimet Museum, in Paris, for the 20th anniversary of the law on patronage that he had supported, the former minister of…
At the Louvre Museum, the entrance ticket will increase from 17 to 22 euros
The square courtyard of the Louvre, December 4, 2023. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP After the increase in the electricity bill by 10% in 2024 and the price of the Paris…