The Golden Age · Coming Up · Faith · Moscow · Museums
On 3 November the Andrei Rublev Museum will hold its Night of Arts. The evening begins at 18:00 in one of the most atmospheric places in Moscow: the grounds of the ancient Spaso-Andronikov Monastery. The programme includes guided tours of icons from the 13th to 17th centuries, a
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris
The Musée d'Orsay is currently showing "Mary Cassatt: An Independent", timed to the centenary year of her death. It is strange that, in a hundred years, this is essentially the first major retrospective of Cassatt at a French national museum. Mary Cassatt was born in 1844
Aristocracy · Art · Museums · Mores · Paris
James Tissot, "Women of Paris: The Circus Lover", 1885, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Tissot's "Woman in Paris" series consisted of 15 large canvases in which the artist portrayed Parisian women of different classes and occupations: a shop girl, a bridesmaid, a society lady
The East · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Paris
An ancient Egyptian ritual statuette made for a high-ranking official named Ptahmose, who lived in the New Kingdom, in the reign of the pharaoh Ramesses II. Ptahmose was a royal scribe, steward of the royal estates and mayor of Memphis. The shabti, that is, the funerary figurine, of Ptahmose
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Paris
Now that is what one calls historical correspondence: the original hangings in Marie Antoinette's apartments at Fontainebleau and the upholstery of the armchair in Duplessis's portrait of Louis XVI of 1776-77. The fabric itself, according to the curators, was woven in 1731. An exhibition has
Faith · Art · Museums
The alabaster statuette "Saint with an Open Book", first quarter of the 16th century, from the collection of the Louvre, at the exhibition "The Moulins Triptych" in the Monastery of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse. The sculpture originally comes from the collection of the Marchesa Arconati-
The East · Coming Up · Monarchies · Museums
The Hermitage-Kazan Centre in the Kazan Kremlin has opened an exhibition, "Nicholas II: Family and Throne". It was prepared by the State Hermitage Museum and the Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve, and will run until 5 September 2027. According to Ilnur Rakhimov, director of the museum-reserve, this
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage
The "Moulins Triptych" by Jean Hey, created between 1498 and 1502. A masterpiece of the French Renaissance, held in the collection of the Cathedral of Moulins, it was restored between 2022 and 2025, after which it was shown at the Louvre in the Richelieu Gallery; the triptych is
Art · Museums · Humour
Two American museums have bet on Monet The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, have struck up a jocular wager on the outcome of the finals of Major League Baseball, in which the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays are playing this
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris
The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is showing the exhibition "Tintoretto: Eternal" until 24 January 2027 This is the first exhibition in France to cover the whole career of Jacopo Robusti (1518/1519-1594). In a fairly small exhibition space are gathered some forty paintings and drawings from
Art · Museums · Society · Paris
On 24 October the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de l'Orangerie and the National Picasso Museum in Paris will close. The museums took this decision because of demonstrations planned for that day. The Art Basel Paris contemporary art fair also announced that it would close
Art · Cinema · Museums · Paris · Reportage · Society Pages
At the Zurbarán exhibition at the Louvre I made the acquaintance of Rossy de Palma. Everyone who has seen Almodóvar's films of the eighties and nineties knows her, from "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" to "Kika". Madame Rosa Elena was invited