Travel France Modern Art Twentieth Century
“If only I could be the dust on the road and the feet of the poor could trample me.” I’ve often thought about these lines by Fernando Pessoa lately, but especially while walking across the floor of Alexander…
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Less than 100 meters from the sea, on a rocky promontory overlooking Meria Bay in Capo Corso ( Corsica, France), archaeologists have uncovered a late-antique building with rooms used for daily life. Among the remains found were ceramic…
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A large church, monumental buildings arranged in a regular pattern, and traces of an underfloor heating system: on the Montagne de Saint-Laurent, in Mesmont, Burgundy (France), archaeological researchby INRAP—the National Institute for…
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They were hidden behind a wall built specifically to make them impossible to find, among concrete blocks and drywall: that is how investigators recovered the last two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen on September 8 from the museum…
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There are places where a work of art almost seems to take on a different character when it is moved from a museum and placed in a historic setting, in a garden, in front of a building, or within the landscape for which it was conceived…
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To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Mary Cassatt (Pittsburgh, 1844 – Château de Beaufresne, 1926), the Musée d’Orsay in Paris is presenting one of the most eagerly anticipated exhibitions in France…
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The successive heat waves that have swept through France this summer are also threatening one of the places most closely associated withImpressionist art: Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, Normandy. The exceptionally high…
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There are museums that add works of art. And then there are museums that raise questions. The FAMM—Femmes Artistes Musée Mougins —definitely belongs to the second category. Founded from Christian Levett’s collection, the museum is…
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