In Brief
Sotheby's Auction House Goes Private After $3.7 Billion Sale
French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi will soon own one of the world's largest auction houses after it spent 31 years on the stock exchange.
France
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The French Senate Won't Let Ambitious Architects Near Notre Dame’s Spire
Legislators have passed a resolution that demands the cathedral be rebuilt “in the same way visually as before.”
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The Louvre Closes As Staffers Strike and Demand Solution to Overcrowding
Record attendance numbers at the Paris museum have not scaled with security personnel on staff, and employees say the situation is now dangerous.
Art
A Creative Colony of Modernists in Coastal France
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen's display of artists living and working independently, but together, reinforces the modernist commitment to internationalist values.
Art
An Artists' Residency Provides the Chance to Rethink Sustainable Practices of Art Making
Eight international artists selected for a month-long residency in the South of France find new ways to reconcile their art with environmental aims.
News
Today in Notre-Dame News: Angry Bees and Zombie Gargoyles Edition
Nothing gets creative cogs churning quite like an 850-year-old cathedral on fire.
Art
A Tacky Tech Take on Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh, Starry Night degrades the work of the daring painter while underusing the awesome powers of immersive digital technology.
Art
The Politics and Limits of Transportation Systems Around the World
An exhibition presents a decade’s worth of research on how people get around with transportation systems that can both lead to and help resolve social inequalities.
In Brief
YouTube Flags Major Notre-Dame Fire as Misinformation, Links to 9/11 Article
The platform's new algorithm for probing "fake news" by adding context-specific information to videos seems to have glitched.
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Rent One of Claude Monet's French Homes on Airbnb
A three-bedroom and three-bathroom home once owned by Impressionist painter is available for $226 per night.
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Musée d’Orsay Puts Focus on Overlooked and Anonymous Black Models in French Masterpieces
Black models: from Géricault to Matisse temporarily retitles works featuring historically anonymous Black models to honor their sitters.
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After Diplomatic Squabble, Italy Agrees to Lend France Its Leonardos for Major Exhibition
Italy's rightwing government initially refused France's request for Leonardos because it believed the Louvre exhibition would “put Italy on the margins of a major cultural event.”