Musée d'Orsay - Hyperallergic (Page 2)

In Brief

Performance Artist Does the Impossible, Shows Up Courbet's "Origin of the World"

A twentysomething woman sits down in front of Gustave Courbet's "Origin of the World" (1866), pulls up her dress, splays her legs, and shows her vulva, clitoris, and possibly part of her vagina to the visitors in the gallery.

Art

Rediscovering the Dark Splendor of Gustave Doré with Edgar Allan Poe

Completed in 1883, the 26 plates Gustave Doré illustrated for Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" were actually not published until after his death on January 23 of that year.

Opinion

Art Museum Promo Video That Gets It (Mostly) Right

European museums have been slower than North American institutions to adopt a digital forward way of doing things, but the Musée d'Orsay's recent video promotion for their latest show, Masculine / Masculine, is on the cutting edge of the digital wave.

Art

Making a Heaven in Hell: The Angel of the Odd's Dark Romanticism

PARIS — With the bloody revolutions of the late 1700s, the mood in Europe was apprehensive and brooding about the future. Perhaps then it's no surprise that the art from that time has a certain gloominess to it as well. Yet what is unexpected is the strange beauty certain artists began to give their

News

Babes at the Museum, the Marketing Campaign?

Thanks to Hyperallergic commenter Nick Fortunato, who left us a tip on our recent "Babes in Museum Land" post, we were directed to this story today of three French models stripping down in Paris' Musée d'Orsay for an Etam lingerie campaign.