Not just the Louvre: How Europe's museums are facing the future
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Paris' Louvre is one of the world's most famous museums — and it's in dire need of renovation. But structural changes are not the only measure European museums are undertaking to try and remain attractive to visitors.
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France's Louvre museum to receive major overhaul ()
The world-famous Mona Lisa is set to be moved to a dedicated room inside the museum with its own entrance. Meanwhile, non-EU visitors can expect to pay higher entry fees in future.
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Paris' Louvre is one of the world's most famous museums — and it's in dire need of renovation. But structural changes are not the only measure European museums are undertaking to try and remain attractive to visitors.
>> Read More
France's Louvre museum to receive major overhaul ()
The world-famous Mona Lisa is set to be moved to a dedicated room inside the museum with its own entrance. Meanwhile, non-EU visitors can expect to pay higher entry fees in future.
>> Read More
News and stories on CULTURE, movies, music, literature - France 24
Tributes flood in for British music icon Marianne Faithfull (Fri, 31 Jan 2025)From the death of 1960s music star Marianne Faithfull, to Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and Katie Perry performing at a huge benefit concert in Los Angeles and Prune Nourry's Paris exhibition celebrating women’s bodies, Eve Jackson brings you the week’s culture news.
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Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week: The highlights (Thu, 30 Jan 2025)
Paris is bursting with fashion energy and star power this January as celebrities and fashionistas descend upon the city of lights for Haute Couture Week. This is the twice-yearly celebration of an ultra-French institution – a dazzling mix of timeless tradition and cutting-edge innovation. Fashion journalist Samantha Tse speaks to Eve Jackson about the highlights, including shows from Schiaparelli, Dior and Valentino. We also visit the Paris Louvre for the museum's first ever fashion exhibition and go through the best-dressed celebrities at the runway shows.
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Eurozine
More than 24/7 (Thu, 30 Jan 2025)
From regular TV coverage to constant online streaming, war imagery is so profuse it makes for
compulsive viewing that appears to have already reached a pinnacle of disassociation. Meanwhile, the imaging technologies behind war have developed to the point of supposedly ‘predicting’ violence,
threatening to occupy the future. And what is left of the real world in their wake?>> Read More
Postcolonial laboratories (Wed, 29 Jan 2025)
The technological link between the rifle and the film camera, the medial links between the Gulf
War and Star Wars, the colonial history of bombs – piecing together historical and contemporary fragments reveals an image of Kurdistan as a testing ground for military technology unleashed without
responsibility for its consequences.>> Read More
Why are books so boring now? (Mon, 27 Jan 2025)
The conglomerate publishing industry sets conservative parameters on what it
considers will sell. Repeating a winning ‘trending’ formula is high up on its list. But blobby, multi-coloured book covers lining supermarket shelves aren’t the only result of industry homogenization
– independent presses are negotiating gaps in the market, spearheading literary excellence.>> Read More
ARTnews.com
Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Denies Attribution for Portrait Bought at Garage Sale (Fri, 31 Jan 2025)The firm that backed the research said it was "puzzled" by the museum's decision.
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USAID Offices Around the Globe Shelve Art to Align with ‘America First’ Administration (Fri, 31 Jan 2025)
Some wondered whether this move would help the President realize his campaign promise of lowering the price of eggs.
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Art Experts Question New Report Claiming 2024 Fall Auctions Were Worst Financial Performance This Century (Fri, 31 Jan 2025)
Some argue that it is flawed by “sample selection bias” and gives a narrow, unnuanced view of the art market.
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The 1-54 Art Fair Has Turned Marrakech into One of Africa’s Most Important Art Hubs (Fri, 31 Jan 2025)
The fair runs through February 2 at two locations, La Mamounia and DaDa.
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