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Category: MUSEUMS

Posted on 18th January 202318th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW The House of Fragile Things

The recent announcement that the Musée d’Orsay is to return a Klimt to the heirs of its Jewish owner shows how much the plunder of art by the Nazis is a live issue even today…

Posted on 17th January 202317th January 2023 by sjohns

REVIEW The French Royal Wardrobe

No, not a book about a large cupboard: the Hôtel de la Marine, on place de la Concorde in Paris is a storage facility on an altogether different scale…

Posted on 30th December 202110th January 2023 by sjohns

Picturing a revolution

It lasted just 72 days, but as a case study in the sheer untamable messiness of history, it’s hard to do better than the Paris Commune of 1871.

Posted on 19th July 202110th January 2023 by sjohns

A question of character

Here’s one for the pub quiz. What do the Paris transport authority, France’s national railway company and heavyweight daily newspaper Le Monde have in common?

Posted on 15th December 202010th January 2023 by sjohns

Ader’s winged wonder refreshed

Clément Ader’s gloriously fantastical Avion III, his hallucinatory mash-up of steam engines, variable geometry bat wings and propellor blades like giant feathers…

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