In Draguignan, a bold exhibition on the High Middle Ages
Draguignan, Var. “When Ricardo Vazquez called me and offered to do an exhibition on Lotharingia, I wondered if it wasn’t…
Henri-Edmond Cross, ferryman of modernity
Be that as it may, for this child from the North born in Douai, this landscape bathed in Mediterranean light…
Louis XI finally rehabilitated in his lands
However, with the exception of a few clichés and caricatured representations of his unsightly figure haunting costume films, we know…
14 artists in 17 sites
No less than 14 municipalities have united around the shared desire to enhance their heritage. This year, 17 sites are…
On the Riviera, Monet travels towards abstraction
On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the painter’s first contact with Monaco, in 1883 in the company of…
Roger-Edgar Gillet accomplice of Rebeyrolle
Eymoutiers (Haute-Vienne). History can also be seen as an art of discontinuity, thus defying the imposed chronological order. Thus, to…
Why Medusa inspires artists so much
1. A motif that is both terrifying and protective It is one of the most famous myths of antiquity; a…
Portrait master Irving Penn
Dinard (Ille-et-Vilaine). Irving Penn (1917-2009) was the first historical photographer to enter the Pinault Collection. Since the acquisition in 2007…
The Belle Epoque of Jean Sala
La Baule, Loire-Atlantique. A young red-haired woman from the Belle Époque poses smiling, a tennis racket under her arm. Under…
Rembrandt’s etchings up close
Fontevraud, Maine-et-Loire. Creating an etching is a laborious process. You must first coat a copper plate with varnish, then proceed…
Ron Mueck, dark and enigmatic
Paris. As Hervé Chandès, artistic director general of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain reminds us, this is not the…
Ingres, painter from Orléans
Chantilly (Oise). Louis-Philippe, who reigned over the French from 1830 to 1848, was an art lover and his fifth son,…