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Museums and Prints (1): The MoMA example
In some Museums, basically in Southern Europe, directors or curators are not very keen to exhibit or collect prints. There is in their mind an opinion of differentiation between higher and lower culture, between higher and lower arts. Is this model adopted by most Museums, also valid in America? The […]
A Cosmopolitan Trove of Exotic Beauty
In 2003 the Islamic galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed for renovation, and one of the world’s premier collections of Islamic art more or less vanished into storage. As of November 1st 2011 the learning can go forward. The Met’s Islamic collection returns to view in what are […]
An imposture and a shame at the Guggenheim in New York
I have to begin by asserting, in order to waive any doubt on this subject, that I love art and plastic arts in particular, and even that I am particularly interested in contemporary art, as can be proved by the place of it in my Collection. I could also specify […]
Paris will always stay in us… and London, New York, Berlin,…
When I started this blog in May 2011, the first article was entitled “Paris will always stay in us “. It seems that changing you is a sign of wisdom, or is typical of persons who did not too much think before dashing into an action, then it seems to […]