In Brief
Bernard Chenebault, president of Amis du Palais de Tokyo (Friends of Palais de Tokyo) in Paris, called Thunberg a “madwoman” who “we must shoot down” in a Facebook post on Sunday. He was dismissed from his position the following day.
Art
Letters penned by Marc Chagall reveal his immigration difficulties to New York during World War II and his concern for his daughter who followed him on a separate ship, carrying a large case of his works.
Art
The Centre Pompidou's Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.
Art
Maar's photographic experiments reject the pretense of naturalism in straightforward photography and attempt to achieve something much deeper than resemblance.
In Brief
President of the Louvre Museum Jean-Luc Martinez denied any connection between the decision and a recent PAIN Sackler protest outside the museum.
News
The activists unfurled large banners and staged a die-in in front of the museum's iconic pyramid demanding it removes the Sackler's name from one of its wings.
News
The activists unfurled large banners and staged a die-in in front of the museum's iconic pyramid demanding it removes the Sackler's name from one of its wings.
In Brief
Legislators have passed a resolution that demands the cathedral be rebuilt “in the same way visually as before.”
In Brief
Record attendance numbers at the Paris museum have not scaled with security personnel on staff, and employees say the situation is now dangerous.
Art
Zabriskie, who passed away on May 7, created and ran two galleries for close to 60 years, one in New York and the other in Paris.
In Brief
The new program, created in partnership with Airbnb, is designed to attract locals to the museum at times when it's not crowded with tourists.
Film
In Quartet (1981), now screening at Quad Cinema, filmmaker James Ivory explores sexual Stockholm syndrome and the persistence of patriarchy in seedy 1920s Paris.