Laurence des Cars, current director of the Musée de l’Orangerie, has been named new director of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. According to Le Monde, Des Cars was officially appointed after a meeting ...

Picasso was inspired by ‘primitive’ art here, and the Hottentot Venus was exhibited as a freak. Now, the famous anthropological museum in Paris has reopened – and it’s better than ever. It’s high time ...

The Musée de l’Orangerie, in Paris, is closed to the public until 2 March, as part of a year-long renovation project to improve visitor access and flow. Despite the pandemic and last year’s Olympic ...

His formative years in sub-Saharan Africa had made him sensitive to France’s restitution of treasures taken from the continent during colonial times. By Farah Nayeri Sylvain Amic, a former ...

More than 70 rooms filled with artwork, such as "Dancers on the Stage" by Edgar Degas and "La Tentation de saint Antoine" by Auguste Rodin, among other French and European masterpieces, fill the Musée ...

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PARIS — More than a century after its birth, Art Deco is once again having a moment. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris is celebrating the seminal design movement of the Roaring 1920s with a ...

What does the unicorn stand for? The themed sections of the "Unicorns!" exhibition at the Musée de Cluny in Paris explore questions that this legendary creature elicits. Also: Why is it called licorne ...

In 2017, the Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec City, Canada, asked members of the general public if they thought they looked more like the goddess Aphrodite, the god Apollo or one of any number of ...

Le Musée de f.p.c. (the Free People of Color Museum) has an enriched history. Located in the Esplanade Ridge neighborhood of New Orleans, the area was once known as "Creole's Millionaire's Row." ...

Arising from the historic town fortifications, David Chipperfield Architects’ new Musée des Beaux-arts is situated on the periphery of a long green space in between the old and new parts of Reims, ...