Theatres of Melancholy: The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond highlights a group of artists who found acclaim and patronage only to fall back into obscurity.
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Rosa Bonheur’s Animal Instinct
Her art demonstrates a grasp of animal nature beyond picturesque figures in a landscape or sentimental stand-ins for human emotion.
Man Buried Under Notre Dame Had “Extraordinarily Good Teeth”
A sarcophagus found beneath the floor slabs of the Paris church belonged to Antoine de la Porte, who provided financial contributions for the cathedral’s choir.
Climate Activists Target Mega-Collector’s Charles Ray Sculpture in Paris
The work belongs to the collection of French billionaire François Pinault, one of the richest men in the world.
The MUUS Collection Presents Rosalind Fox Solomon: The Early Work at Paris Photo
Curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, the exhibition showcases one of Solomon’s earliest projects in the most complete survey of the series ever presented.
Sally Gabori’s Cartography of Aboriginal Displacement
During her last decade of life Gabori created abstract, large-scale paintings that map her emotional memory of her ancestral home.
Pierre Soulages, “Painter of Black,” Dies at 102
His oeuvre was an archive of his journey to understand black pigment’s primordial origins and its paradoxical role as a portal to light.
Paris Photo Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
The largest international fair dedicated to photography will bring together 184 exhibitors from 31 countries in the heart of Paris this November.
Who’s Afraid of Rosa Bonheur’s Sexual Identity?
In the wake of a new retrospective, some are criticizing the way in which the artist’s relationships with women are being discussed.
Eiffel Tower to Go Dark An Hour Earlier Amid Europe’s Energy Crisis
The shutoff will conserve power as Russia tightens its grip on natural gas resources.
The Pioneering Feminists of French Art
Pioneers at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg places a particular emphasis on women artists who challenged and subverted conventional norms of gender presentation, sexuality, motherhood, and race.
Man Smears Mona Lisa With Cake at the Louvre
“Think of the planet,” said the vandal, who claimed to be a climate activist and was disguised as a woman in a wheelchair.