Benoît Payan: “Marseille is the last city to maintain its funding”
A notary clerk by profession, Benoît Payan joined the Socialist Party (PS) during his student years, climbing the ranks until…
Takeover of the Bergerac Photography Art Center
Bergerac (Dordogne). One year after its opening, the Bergerac Photography Art Center will inaugurate its latest exhibition on July 3….
Faced with the heat wave, some museums become free
While France reaches temperature records, with 49 departments placed on red alert this Monday, June 22, certain air-conditioned municipal and…
Kennedy Center, justice slows down Trump
Washington, DC. Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center has suffered a serious legal setback. On May 29, Federal Judge…
The “Spanish Culture Pass” aims to promote artistic practices
Madrid. Born in 2022 in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the “Bono Cultural Joven” is an initiative of the…
The sale of a Klimt contested before the American courts
Said to be lost for almost a century, the Portrait of Fräulein Liesera late masterpiece by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), resurfaced…
The Ministry of Culture faces a wall of works
The Court of Auditors warns, in a report published today, about the sustainability of the major heritage projects of the…
Obama Presidential Center, a monument and a campus
Chicago, Illinois. Vertical bunker, beveled silo, decor from the saga Star Warssanctuary… and even “foolishness” for Lee Bey, an influential…
The Mauritshuis Museum can keep its master paintings
On Wednesday June 10, Dutch justice rendered a favorable decision to the Dutch State and the Mauritshuis in the dispute…
kyiv cathedral hit by Russian strike
On the night of June 14-15, Russia hit one of the most important religious and heritage sites in Ukraine. In…
Bayeux Tapestry, the ministry wants to be reassuring
Paris. A unique testimony to Franco-English relations, the Bayeux tapestry had been the subject of several loan requests since the…
Isabelle Chardonnier appointed general director of cultural democracy
The appointment of Isabelle Chardonnier as director of the General Directorate of Cultural Democracy, Education and Research at the Ministry…