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The Art Basel Paris fair managed to sell works worth almost 130 million euros before closing early because of the protests in France. This year the fair is held at the Grand Palais for the third time, and in Paris for the fifth time in all. The first two days
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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
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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
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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
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In the spring of 1838, Louis Daguerre, the French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype, was testing a camera on which he had been working for almost a year. The daguerreotype was the first practical method of photography: the image appeared on a silvered copper plate. Daguerre photographed the view
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In 1896 Gustave Fayet, together with the sculptor Louis Paul, a former pupil of Rodin, founded a workshop in Béziers which by 1904 had produced more than a hundred items in stoneware, the name given to dense, high-fired ceramic. In 1898 these vases caught the eye of Siegfried Bing,
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The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is showing the exhibition “Gustave Fayet. Collector and Creator” until 8 March 2027. It continues the “Icons of Modern Art” series, which has previously included the collections of Sergei Shchukin, the brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov, and the British industrialist Samuel Courtauld. The Fondation
Observations · Society · Paris
Thanks to the striking appearance of the lady behind Sébastien Lecornu during his address on the introduction of a curfew in response to the protests, I learnt of the existence of such an interesting department as the Ministry of Regional Planning and Decentralisation, which is headed by none other than
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But there is good news too
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The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre are jointly preparing the exhibition "Rembrandt and the Ancients". It will open in New York in November 2027 and travel to Paris in 2028. For the first time in more than twenty years, the Metropolitan will show so full a retrospective of
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Les Invalides. Lithograph of 1840
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Disturbances in Paris, literally at Les Invalides, the tomb of Napoleon. I think it would have taken him less than an hour to remove the cause of the noise, were it not for the 35-tonne sarcophagus of crimson Shoksha quartzite, brought from Russia by order of Nicholas I