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.
In this village in the department of the Var, private foundations and estates full of sculptures attract the cream of the art collecting crop each summer. It’s a different way of doing business.
Lee Ufan Arles has just opened in the Hôtel Vernon, a hôtel particulier (private mansion) where his minimalist works are in their element. A look back at this sumptuous collection that embodies the essence of his philosophy.
The museum of Vif-sur-Isère, housed in the former family home, accurately reproduces the intellectual emulation of two impassioned Egyptologists.
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.
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.
Sam Stourdzé, 49, has been director of the French Academy in Rome since September 2020. The photography and cinema specialist talks about his determination to make the Academy a place open to both contemporary creation and a revisited history of art.
After over three years of work, the Danish museum has reopened with a new extension housing its Impressionist works. An occasion to look at an institution famous for both its French and Scandinavian collections and its architecture.
Swiss curator Marc-Olivier Wahler blazed a trail in contemporary art institutions in Europe and the United States before rising to a new challenge: bringing the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva into the 21st century.
Like all museum managers around the world, the director of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg has had to deal with the pandemic’s effects on the venerable Russian institution. He remains resolutely focused on the future.
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.
In the Netherlands, the restitution by the Stedelijk Museum of a Kandinsky landscape signals a reversal of policy towards the victims of the Nazi regime.
Curating the groundbreaking “elles@centrepompidou” in 2009-11, featuring works by women artists from the Centre Pompidou collection, Camille Morineau, the President of AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), continues to tirelessly advocate for women artists and enlighten their forgotten histories.
Composed, like a huge bouquet of about a hundred paintings, drawings, prints and photographs by Impressionist and Nabi artists, the show is a refreshing, inspiring evocation rather than a discourse on the construction of gardens.
This large private collection of marbles from antiquity amassed during the 19th century includes outstanding pieces, some of which were reproduced by Raphael.
Paris’s oldest museum has reopened in a completely refurbished building, where the collections are now strikingly set off. For its director, both everything and nothing has changed at the Carnavalet.
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.
Celebrating an ambitious renovation by Frank Gehry, The Philadelphia Museum of Art reopens to the public with a commitment to broadened histories and reinvigorated community ties.
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
The Musée de Grenoble in France has brought together all the Italian artist’s works owned by the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, near Parma. Delicate paintings in muted tones that move the viewer through their mysterious silence.
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.
With the ten-week strike against MoMA in full swing, Director Glenn D. Lowry resorts to cynical crisis management rather than creative engagement.
La Gazette has obtained a copy of the Louvre’s scientific paper confirming Salvator Mundi’s attribution to the Florentine painter.
Born in the Bronx on June 6, 1933 to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania, Eli Broad, co-founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), died on Friday, April 30
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.
The exhibition “Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920” examines the widespread and, until now, under-appreciated influence of Spanish art and culture on American painting.
In French-speaking Switzerland, Martigny, where Julius Caesar covered himself in glory, there lives another conqueror: Léonard Gianadda, who set up a foundation that hosts memorable exhibitions. The next one is “Caillebotte”, the tale of a remarkable adventure.
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 transitional period in which to dismiss its plutocratic board and reimagine the entire institution.
The reappointment of Jean-Luc Martinez as head of the Louvre was dictated by a certain logic. With a determined spirit that gained him not a few enemies, he set about reconfiguring the landscape.
Hailed as the first museum of modern art in the U.S., the Société Anonyme was founded by artists Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. Its collection offers a unique record of modernist innovation and experimentation.
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.
Like all cultural institutions, the Rodin Museum in Paris is struggling with Covid-19’s repercussions. But the museum has a unique asset enabling it to weather the storm: its status as the rightful owner of Rodin’s works.
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, might be a run-in whose full flavor is only relished by Parisians and New Yorkers.
Initially criticized for its links to the retail giant, ten years on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has surprised many in the world of culture for its innovative and progressive practice.
With numerous preemptions of objets d’art connected with his family, a new chapter of history is being written for “Le Roi des Français.” Welcome to the gallery of the Orléans.
