Category: MUSEUMS
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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?
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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…