A little over two months after opening, the National Museum of Norway, designed by German architect Klaus Schuwerk, is a hit. A million visitors to this magnetic, diverse and ambitious place are expected by the end of the year.
The Maeght Foundation is hosting about a hundred abstract artworks from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art collection, from Martin Barré to Claude Viallat and many rediscoveries.
The museum of Vif-sur-Isère, housed in the former family home, accurately reproduces the intellectual emulation of two impassioned Egyptologists.
The Louis Vuitton Foundation kept its promise that the exhibition celebrating the centenary of the birth of Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) would be an event.
The National Automobile Museum in Mulhouse, France, which opened on July 10, 1982, is gearing up to celebrate its 40th anniversary—an opportunity to (re)discover the unusual history of the museum, which attracts lovers of beautiful cars every year.
One of Rembrandt Bugatti’s most iconic animals comes from the collection of René de Knyff, a racing driver and friend of his no less famous brother, Ettore.
At the helm of the French National Museum of the Middle Ages and its renovation project since 2019, this eminent medievalist has just inaugurated the new layout, on May 12.
Germaine Richier, Jean Dubuffet and Bernard Buffet are the names to remember from the collection gallerist Henri Creuzevault left to his children. It proves that it is not always quantity but rarity that counts.
The next two sales of autographs from the Aristophil Collection include a few items that have never come up for auction before, but also a collection of historic objects and some treasures, paintings and drawings.
Free-spirited, headstrong Jeanne Tachard ranks among the 1920s’ leading patrons. She commissioned works from French cabinetmaker and designer Pierre Legrain and was a pioneering collector of African art.
From the theater to illustrated plates, Marie Bell’s life reflects a time when artists of all kinds performed together.
Two and a half years after taking up his post at the Jeu de Paume, the new director talks about his broad and varied concept of photography, his development strategy and his initial assessment after the pandemic.
Before it closes in the first half of 2022, the Kahn library will be providing a fourth chapter full of discoveries, with Old Masters and books, manuscripts, photographs, drawings, paintings and collages from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The delights of the fabulous collection of Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah Al Thani, cousin of the Emir of Qatar, are now on display for the next 20 years in the Hôtel de la Marine, the former French Royal Garde-meuble. Its chief curator looks back at its origins and explains why it ended up in Paris.
In the sixth century, its iridescent nuances were already enlivening the mosaics at Ravenna’s Basilica of Saint Apollonia. Fragile and long inimitable, mother-of-pearl, also known as nacre, was used as a precious material to decorate cabinets of curiosities, jewelry and even garments.
Thrusting out its emblematic skirted skull and sharp horns, this fearsomeTriceratops is coming to Paris, where its unusual size is sure to cause a stir.
The auction of André Becker’s carriage collection is a major event in a highly specialized market.
“Objects do not belong to you,” says Bernard De Leye. “They are just passing through.” The time has come for the Belgian antique dealer and former BRAFA president to pass his collection on to the next custodian. Over 250 pieces, including several of museum quality, are up for sale.
This large private collection of marbles from antiquity amassed during the 19th century includes outstanding pieces, some of which were reproduced by Raphael.
Located just outside Paris, the Sèvres Museum is a treasure trove of ceramic arts from across the world. Its current special exhibition celebrates the art of the French gastronomic meal.
From Charles Camoin to Albert Marquet and Bernard Buffet, the paintings collected by a vineyard owner originally from Bordeaux reflect his taste for works glorifying his adopted region of Provence.
The palatial mansion on Place de la Concorde in Paris is soon opening to the public after years of controversy and a painstaking restoration campaign. The result is a journey halfway between poetry and scientific rigor, underpinned by a completely new financial management method
Two artists and prophets of their time, one was collected by Louis-Charles Libaude (1896-1922), the other appeared with an unexpected bronze, an alliance formed and took flight.
Initially scheduled for January 23, the opening of the Pinault collection’s new flagship museum in the former Paris Bourse de Commerce building had been delayed by the lockdown. We examined the architecture of this structure rooted in history.
Martine and Léon Cligman have donated their 900-work collection to the Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud (Anjou), creating a unique modern art museum. How the works are displayed will determine sensitive formal, chromatic and intuitive harmonies.
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 by his father, William T. Walters. Today, the museum is reckoning with its founders’ white-supremacist legacy.
After three years’ planning, the Frick Collection has just reopened in Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist 945 Madison Avenue, on lease from the Met while the historic East 70th Street mansion undergoes renovation. We talked to chief curator Xavier F. Salomon about this extraordinary marriage of Modernism and old masters.
This cosmopolitan artist traveled the world in search of art, as the 300 objects in his collection attest. The foundation illustrates all the painter’s artistic phases—and detours.
The controversy over Facebook’s ethics, prompted the company to set up an experts’ panel.
