Souraya Noujaim takes over as director of the Louvre Abu Dhabi
The Louvre Abu Dhabi has just announced today, October 7, the appointment of Souraya Noujaim as its director. She succeeds…
Alessandro Giuli, two years after the “cultural revolution”
Italy. What does Alessandro Giuli do? After media overexposure following his appointment just two years ago, the Italian Minister of…
Lunéville loses another of its castles in the flames
Twenty-three years after the devastating fire at the “Versailles of Lorraine”, another castle in the town of Lunéville (Meurthe-et-Moselle) was…
What we know about the theft of The Apocalypse of Saint John
With its 210 kilos, its 150 parchments and its spectacular bronze cover designed by Salvador Dalí, The Apocalypse of Saint…
Bayeux Tapestry: British Museum accused of discrimination
A few weeks after the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry on English soil, Yusuf Ali Osman, blind, inquired at the…
Claude Lévêque: the Rimbaud Museum procrastinates on the withdrawal of his work
At the MAMCO in Geneva, at the MAC/VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine, at the Fontevraud Abbey, the works of Claude Lévêque were…
The Culture budget falls by 2.55% in 2027
Emmanuel Macron’s first budget, the PLF 2018, increased the credits for the Culture mission by 1.1%, to nearly 2.9 billion…
Treasure of Villena: the mayor and museum management targeted by an investigation
The spectacular theft of the Treasure of Villena (south-east of Spain) no longer only mobilizes investigators in search of the…
City of design: the suspension of the secretary general reopens the Mandon years
The Thierry Mandon period is not yet over at the Cité du design in Saint-Étienne. Four years after the departure…
In Avignon, temporary closures of museums are increasing
This fall, the cultural offer is narrowing for the inhabitants of Avignon. The town hall has scheduled closing periods in…
In Germany, the “Stolpersteine” caught up in political divisions
Literally “stumbling blocks”THE Stolpersteine have a symbolic significance far beyond what their name suggests. In the 1990s, German artist Gunter…
German town demands erasure of two “Bananensprayer” stencils
Thousands of artistic institutions around the world are marked with the seal of Thomas Baumgärtel: a yellow and black banana,…