Didier Rykner

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  • Second edition of Fine Arts and the Biennale, now FAB

    Born last year from the merger of Fine Arts Paris and the Biennale, the new FAB show is expanding for its second edition, before undergoing its ultimate expansion next year with its installation…

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  • Claude Gillot, a stillborn exhibition

    The Claude Gillot exhibition at the Louvre lasted less than three days. The exhibition has been unhooked, and lenders are already seeing the return of works they had theoretically loaned for…

  • German Baroque drawings by Nicolas Schwed

    From now until December 7, Nicolas Schwed is presenting a museum-level exhibition of German Baroque drawings in the premises he shares with Étienne Bréton at 346, rue Saint-Honoré. And it’s likely…

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  • A dream Fragonard at Artcurial

    Artcurial is offering another fine sale of paintings and sculptures (including a number of drawings) next week. One of the most talked-about paintings is sure to set bids alight, especially as it…

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  • 1000 historic weapons saved from destruction

    The name of La Tribune de l’Art does not appear in the press release issued by the Musée de l’Armée announcing that a thousand historic weapons will enter the collections of French museums. However,…

  • An exemplary indictment of Rocher Mistral

    On Tuesday 14 November, Rocher Mistral and Vianney d’Alençon appeared before the criminal court in Aix-en-Provence to answer for the countless breaches of the heritage, town planning and…

  • A report on Versailles by the French Court of Accounts

    The Court of Accounts’ reports on public cultural institutions are always interesting reading and most of the time raise excellent questions. Their only limitation is, sometimes, a lack of…

  • The Treasury of Notre-Dame cathedral

    Contrary to what you might read here or there (and even in some of the texts of the remarkable catalogue accompanying the Louvre exhibition), the treasury of Notre-Dame cathedral was not saved…

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  • A painting by Bonnefond donated to Amiens

    A new painting that belonged to Bruno Foucart’s collection has just made its way into a museum, the Picardie Museum in Amiens, this time donated by Vincent Foucart, another of his brothers, who is…

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