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Rachida Dati is the new French culture minister, but the appointment has sparked controversy and criticism

Rachida Dati is the new French minister of culture, formerly the minister of justice from 2007 to 2009 under Nicolas Sarkozy. The newly appointed minister, who succeeds Rima Abdul Malak, was appointed by President Macron at the suggestion of young Pr...
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At Christmas, Alberto Angela takes everyone to the Ville Lumière: Tonight in Paris in prime time on Rai1

Once again this year Alberto Angela will keep us company on Christmas Eve. If in 2021 the popular TV popularizer had taken viewers to Naples, discovering Castel dell'Ovo, the Royal Palace, the San Carlo Theater, the Charterhouse of San Martino, San G...
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Eugène Delacroix's masterpiece will be restored. It will not be on view until spring 2024

Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix 's greatest masterpiece preserved at the Louvre, will be restored. The painting has been removed from the wall of the Paris museum for a restoration that is scheduled to last until spring 2024. Pain...
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The fierce and scandalous realism of Gustave Courbet's Origine du Monde

Among the works representing female bodies, bearers of more or less erotic messages, L'Origine du Monde by Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819 - La-Tour-de-Peilz, 1877) is the one that more than any other engages with fierce realism: it is a work that help...
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Priceless Rembrandt painting returns to its French village after years. It is now protected

A priceless painting by Rembrandt depicting Christ on the Cross has just returned to the village of Mas-d'Agenais in Lot-et-Garonne: the village of 1,500 inhabitants actually owns the Dutch master's work, and now, after six years of exile in Bordeaux...
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Roselyne Bachelot: France will help Russian artists forced into exile

French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot said France will help Russian artists who have gone into exile because of their opposition to Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine-Russia conflict. "If Russian artists, dissident artists who have taken a stand aga...
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A large lace-embroidered wall: in France, one of NeSpoon's latest creations

A giant lace work on a building: this is one of the highly recognizable creations by Warsaw-born street artist NeSpoon in France, not far from Montpellier, in Castelnau Le-Lez. The work, which is inspired by theancient French lace tradition, can be ...
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Ingres at the Royal Palace, an exhibition highlighting the modernity of French neoclassicism

It comes with an innovative thrust, right from its first room, the exhibition dedicated to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban, 1780 - Paris, 1867), set up in Milan, at the Palazzo Reale, and open until June 23, 2019. The exhibition's intentio...
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