All posts in Paris
J. Paul Getty honours Notre Dame with new exhibition
Just weeks after UNESCO added new sites to its registry of World Heritage Sites, another site, recognized by the organization in 1991, will be honoured by an exhibition at the […]
Musée d’Orsay receives over 100 artworks from American couple
In 2016, Marlene and Spencer Hays, a collecting couple who had amassed an extensive trove of about 600 artworks, announced that after their passing, the entirety of their collection would […]
Louvre strikes Sackler name from gallery and website
The Louvre has become the first major institute to officially remove the Sackler family name from its galleries. The Sacklers had been associated with the museum’s wing of oriental antiquities […]
David Zwirner Gallery expands to Paris ahead of Brexit
Just months after the Goodman Gallery announced they’d be expanding their South Africa-based gallery to London this fall, David Zwirner, one of the art industry’s biggest gallery names, announced plans […]
Mona Lisa moves! Well, ‘100 paces’ away…
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (c. 1503-1516) is getting some new digs, at least temporarily. On the evening of July 16th, the painting along with its bulletproof encasement will move […]
Van Gogh’s gun sells for €162,500 at auction
In 1965, a farmer in French village found a rusty old revolver in a field that has since been thought to be the gun that Vincent van Gogh used to […]
1815 – 1848: Paris amidst excitement and historicism
The Petit Palais is somewhere in Paris that you’re sure to find crowded exhibitions with viewers deep in thought, just like the Baroque des Lumières in 2017. A stroll through Romantic […]
