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• The Myth Of College As A "Marketplace Of Ideas"

  08-03-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Campus speaker invitations and disinvitations reflect a curious paradox. On one hand, there’s clearly a market for speakers for bestselling authors like Murray and Milo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart writer and prolific campus provocateur. On the other hand, Murray was met with disinvitation attempts in 2014 and 2016 before he was shouted down last week at Middlebury, reflecting student awareness that the work for which Murray is best known—1994’s The Bell Curve, which was
  
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• Report: In London, Gentrification Threatens Cultural Vitality

  08-03-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The report "notes that although the vast majority of visitors to the capital reportedly come because of ‘culture and heritage’, 35% of London’s grassroots music venues closed from 2007-2015 and 3,500 artists are likely to lose their places of work by 2019. It argues that rising rents ultimately price people out of areas and cause tension between old and new resident communities, and that the resulting marginalisation of certain groups adds to a homogenisation of residents and c
  
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• Sotheby’s Pulls in $143.6 M. at Contemporary Auction in London, Flexing Market Strength

  08-03-2017 22:49 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s sold £118 million (about $143.6 million) worth of work during its contemporary art evening auction in London, continuing the flash of market brawn that’s been on display in the city this week. Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s had sales that outperformed the … Read More
  
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• Why So Many Words Die

  08-03-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of the Oxford English Dictionary’s 231,000 entries, at least a fifth are obsolete. They range from “aa”, a stream or waterway (try that in Scrabble), to “zymome”, “that constituent of gluten which is insoluble in alcohol”. That is surely an undercounting.
  
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• Rebuild Palmyra? Well, First We Have To Have A Conversation About What The Point Of It Is

  08-03-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Historic restoration should not simply recreate what has been lost. Instead, it could deepen engagement with history and increase concern for the preservation of artefacts. A broader understanding of cultural heritage presses beyond the mere celebration of ancient objects to a more critical awareness of our connection with history. The aim of historic restoration is not to recover material authenticity, but to restore our relationship with the past."
  
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• The rise and fall of the American dream

  08-03-2017 22:00
  Repetition adds up to reputation, Andy Warhol once saidand that is the power and one of the allures of printmaking, says Stephen Coppel, the curator of The American Dream: Pop to the Present (9 March-18 June). The British Museum show focuses on US printmaking over six decades, beginning with works from the 1960s that matched the ambition of the age, Coppel says. Among these is the monumental seven-foot-tall Sky Garden (1969) by Robert Rauschenberg, which was commissioned by Nasa to celebrate spa
  
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• Performa 17 commissions will investigate Dada's history of performance

  08-03-2017 22:00
  
  Organisers of the seventh edition of the Performa biennial in New York have released an initial list of commissioned artists. This iteration of the show, which is on from 1-19 November, responds to the history of the Dada movement, which was more performance than object-making, says RoseLee Goldberg, the founding director and chief curator of the organisation.
  The ten artists announced include William Kentridge, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Zanele Muholi, Tracey Rose, all from South Africa; the American
  
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• Objects of desire: what dealers are taking to Tefaf

  08-03-2017 22:00
  
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  Gregg Baker Asian Art The Japanese Op-artist Tadasuke Kuwayama, better known as Tadasky, dedicated his artistic career to geometric forms, and the circle in particular. His preoccupation with the shape led him to create a special rotating turntable-like wheel with which to paint perfect circles. Tadaskys work rose to prominence after six of his paintings were included in the seminal Op art exhibition The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 1965t
  
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• Objects from Matisse’s studio travel for first time

  08-03-2017 22:00
  The exhibition Matisse in the Studio at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (9 April-9 July) will feature more than 80 paintings, drawings, bronze sculptures, cutouts, prints and other works alongside 39 objects the artist kept in his studio, which have never been shown outside France.
  They include a silver chocolate pot given to Matisse by the artist Albert Marquet as a wedding present in 1898 and an early 20th-century Andalusian glass vase that Matisse bought in the 1910s on a trip to
  
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• National Portrait Gallery looks behind the mask

  08-03-2017 22:00
  In Gillian Wearings photographs, she has masqueraded as Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, her mother, brother, grandfather and her younger self. In 2012, she posed as the cross-dressing French Surrealist Claude Cahun, who made her own slippery self-portraits more than 80 years earlier. Works by the two artists go on view together for the first time in Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask (9 March-29 May) at Londons National Portrait Gallery. The show seems
  
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• ‘Lost’ Cubist painting found under later work

  08-03-2017 22:00
  
  A lost Cubist painting has been found under an Art Brut work by the same artist. The discovery was made when Manuela de Kerchove dOusselghem, the daughter of the Belgian artist and art critic Ren Guiette (1893-1976), took her fathers painting Paysage (1953) to be investigated by the Swiss firm SGS Art Services after noticing patches of blue and bright yellow paint inconsistent with the brown, red and black canvas on the edges of the picture where paint had been lost.A combination of techniques,
  
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• How to spot a knackered picture

  08-03-2017 22:00
  
  When it comes to Old Masters, it is questions of attribution that tend to excite both buyers and sellers the most. Everything depends on whether a painting is right. But often something just as important is overlooked: the question of its condition. A painting can be as right or as wrong as it likes, but if it is in terrible condition, or has been restored to within an inch of its life, then the attribution might as well not matter.How, then, can a pictures condition best be assessed? What shou
  
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• German artists capture Zeitgeist at Sotheby’s contemporary sale

  08-03-2017 22:00
  
  The contemporary art market has proved itself immune to the perceived threats of Brexit and the election of President Donald Trump, judging by Sothebys performance last night. The auction house made 100.7m (118m with fees), comfortably falling within its pre-sale estimate of 80.9m-112.6m. The result is 70% up on last years sale.German artists led the way, with more than a quarter of lots by artists hailing from the country. In his first appearance in an evening sale at Sothebys, Wolfgang T
  
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• All of the feels in Ancient Greece show

  08-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Onassis Cultural Center New York is providing a cathartic exhibition experience with its new show, A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700BC-200AD, opening today (9 March; until 24 June), which explores expressions and depictions of feelings in Ancient Greecein both mythology and everyday lifethrough more than 130 objects, including life-sized statues, coins, amulets, pottery and funerary art. The show is conceived as a journey through emotions, says the co-curator, the historian Angelos Ch
  
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• Terence Koh Seeks Volunteers for ‘Sharing Exercise’ in Los Angeles

  08-03-2017 21:53 via artnews.com
  With his show closing this weekend at Moran Borandoff gallery in Los Angeles, oddball art-world recluse Terence Koh will hold a performance—and he’s looking for volunteers. Participants will be asked to tell a personal story about their background in a … Read More
  
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• The Uncertain Dependability of Truth: Johan Grimonprez’s New Film Makes Clear It’s One Thing We Can Count On

  08-03-2017 21:35 via artnews.com
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• Beatrice Mandelman at Rosenberg & Co., New York

  08-03-2017 21:33 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Chaos at the Louvre as blockbuster Vermeer show draws thousands of visitors

  08-03-2017 21:32
  
  The Louvres current Vermeer exhibition was supposed to be a major coup. Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (until 22 May) is the first blockbuster show in many years, meant to herald a revival at the museum that saw its attendance drop by more than 15% since the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. Twelve of Vermeers paintings, a third of his oeuvre, are on loan from America and Europe. But since its opening on 22 February, the exhibition has caused more headaches at the Louvre than celebrat
  
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• How Writers Work An Idea On The Page

  08-03-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done. There are those moments when we sit before a blank page, but mostly we’re adjusting that which is already there. The writer revises, the painter touches up, the director edits, the musician overdubs."
  
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• Parallels Between The Arts And Medicine

  08-03-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "It’s said that literature helps us to explore ways of being human, grants glimpses of lives beyond our own, aids empathy with others, alleviates distress, and widens our circle of awareness. The same could be said of clinical practice in all of its manifestations: nursing to surgery, psychotherapy to physiotherapy. An awareness of literature can aid the practice of medicine, just as clinical experience certainly helps me in the writing of my books. I’ve come to see the two disciplin
  
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• How Language Impacts Reason Impacts Reality

  08-03-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Language is a tool used to describe the world in which we live. However, don’t confuse the map with the territory! There is one major difference between the world we live in and language: Whereas the real world is free of contradictions, the man-made linguistic descriptions of that world can have contradictions."
  
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• David Letterman Is Back, And He Can't Stop Talking (Especially About Trump)

  08-03-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  No, he's not back on TV, but he is talking to New York magazine's David Marchese about retirement ("I'm lonely, I can't stop talking. This is like visitors' day at prison for me."), late-night TV today (he never watches), and what he'd do if he got The Donald on camera.
  
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• Three Blind Mice: Conor Thompson Presents ‘The Mouse’ at Brooklyn Apartment Gallery The Middler

  08-03-2017 19:56 via artnews.com
  When the artist Conor Thompson told gallerist Anthony Atlas about the titular work for his current exhibition “The Mouse,” a selection of paintings and drawings on view through March 26 at Atlas’s apartment gallery, The Middler in Bushwick, Atlas had a … Read More
  
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• Artworks made from fire-gutted Mackintosh library sell for £700,000

  08-03-2017 19:48
  
  Art by Antony Gormley, Jenny Saville and Paula Rego, who used debris from fire, is auctioned for Glasgow School of ArtArtworks made using charred debris and ashes from the fire-gutted Mackintosh library at Glasgow School of Art have been sold for more than £700,000.Artists including Tacita Dean, Rachel Whiteread, Antony Gormley, Jenny Saville and Paula Rego agreed to make work which would be auctioned at Christie’s to raise money for the Mackintosh Campus Appeal. So far, £18.5m
  
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• Muted 20th-Century and Contemporary Sale at Phillips in London Nets $17.9 M.

  08-03-2017 19:38 via artnews.com
  The contemporary auctions in London continued today with the 20th-century and contemporary sale at Phillips’s Mayfair salesroom, with the house pulling in a modest £14.7 million (or about $17.9 million) in a brief sale. With buyer’s premiums included, the total just barely eclipsed … Read More
  
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• The Astonishing And Perplexing Internet War On Science

  08-03-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Here, climate change is a government-sponsored hoax, fluoridated water is poisonous, cannabis can cure cancer, and airplanes are constantly spraying pesticides and biological waste into the air. Genetically modified food is destroying humanity and the planet. Vaccines are experimental, autism-causing injections forced on innocent babies. We can’t trust anything that we eat, drink, breathe, or medicate with, nor rely on physicians and public health agencies to act in our best interests."
  
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• Maggie Smith Knows She's Hard To Work With, And She Wishes She Were Like Judi Dench

  08-03-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The awful thing is, I'm very aware when I'm being difficult, but I'm usually so scared. And that's shaming, at the age one is. Because every time I start anything, I think, 'This time I'm going to be like Jude, and it will all be lovely, it will be merry and bright, the Quaker will come out in me.' But it never works."
  
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• Greek artists get a share of the spotlight at Documenta 14 in Kassel

  08-03-2017 18:51
  
  Greek artists will feature prominently at the Fridericianum, the main venue for Documenta 14 in Kassel, where the international exhibition opens on 10 June 2017. The institutional collaboration between Documenta and Greeces National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens was announced at a press conference held at the German museum on Tuesday. However, any further details about the international exhibition, including the list of artists participating in either the Kassel or Athens componen
  
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• So It Appears Early Cave Artists In France Were Pointillists Like Seurat

  08-03-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "These pointillist creations of early modern humans were recently discovered when scientists revisited Abri Cellier, a cave site in France’s Vézère Valley. There, they found 16 limestone tablets left behind by a previous excavation. Images of what appear to be animals, including a woolly mammoth, were formed by a series of punctured dots and, in some cases, carved connecting lines. Combined with previous images from nearby caves in France and Spain, the tablets suggest an ear
  
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• Facing the future: Gillian Wearing digitally ages herself in new artwork

  08-03-2017 18:14
  
  Artist imagines herself as a 70-year-old in series of images unveiled as part of exhibition at National Portait GalleryNot everyone will want to know what they might look like when they are 70, but the artist Gillian Wearing is more than happy to contemplate it, dozens of times.The National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday unveiled a huge wall of images called Rock ’n’ Roll 70 Wallpaper showing a digitally aged Wearing in about 30 different situations and clothes. Related: Gillian Weari
  
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• Heirs of Jewish publisher team up with German museums to track down Nazi-looted art

  08-03-2017 18:05
  
  Germanys government, museums and research institutes are teaming up with the heirs of a Jewish media mogul to track down thousands of paintings, books, sculptures and antiques stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War.
  This is a great example of Germany building bridges rather than walls, said Roger Strauch, the step-great-grandson of Rudolf Mosse, at a press conference in Berlin on 7 March. The collaboration allows the Mosse Art Restitution Project to take advantage of a tremendously tal
  
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• The Pantone System Of Color Standards We Now Use? It Was Based On Birds

  08-03-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, indeed - it was first developed by an ornithologist in 1886; he expanded it for the rest of us in 1912. Allison Meier explains.
  
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• Hirshhorn Museum Adds Two Trustees to Board

  08-03-2017 17:40 via artnews.com
  Following news yesterday of the hiring of Jarrett Gregory as curator, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. has added two trustees to its board: Sonny Kalsi and Ellen Susman. Now with 30 active members, the board is now the … Read More
  
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• Why Are American Orchestras Willfully Ignoring Women Composers?

  08-03-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Brian Lauritzen, a broadcaster with the Los Angeles classical radio station KUSC, has been tracking the gender breakdown of the composers represented on the upcoming season schedules of American orchestras and opera companies. The picture his numbers paint isn’t a pretty one. There are organizations, including major orchestras in St. Louis, Houston and Dallas, that are contentedly planning all-male seasons for the coming year. The New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra join
  
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• The beauty of art can counter Islamophobia – but it won't be easy

  08-03-2017 17:16
  
  A Qatari-funded Arab and Islamic art museum is opening in New York to ‘challenge misconceptions’ – but has the US already made up its mind?What kind of Islamic art has the power to open American hearts and minds, at a time when Donald Trump has relaunched his attempt to ban entry from several Muslim-majority nations?In May, a new Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, set up by Qatar’s Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani, will open in downtown Manhattan. The timing is not acciden
  
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• Where Saturday Night Live's Trump Administration Satire Goes Flat

  08-03-2017 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  While the bits with Alec Baldwin (as Trump) and Melissa McCarthy (as press secretary Sean Spicer) tend to be solid, argues David Sims, "the rest of SNL's political satire, such as Saturday's cold open that framed Attorney General Jeff Sessions as Forrest Gump, often leans on presenting the Trump administration as cheerfully unaware or low on brainpower. It's a more toothless approach that's far easier for viewers of all political viewpoints to dismiss."
  
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• Galleries Close for Day Without a Woman Strike

  08-03-2017 16:27 via artnews.com
  It is still early on International Women’s Day here in New York, but so far it’s looking like at least a handful of galleries are closing to mark the Day Without a Woman strike. In New York, Chelsea standbys Metro Pictures and Koenig & Clinton … Read More
  
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• If Pundits Are Going To Review Trump's Performance As A Speechmaker, They Should Take Some Notes From Real Critics

  08-03-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Slate's Jamelle Bouie noted in disgust the morning after Trump's speech to Congress, "This morning is a good reminder that so much of what passes for political analysis is just theater criticism." Alyssa Rosenberg responds: "On behalf of critics everywhere, I take a minor amount of umbrage: After all, we generally set higher standards for performances than 'basic competence,' and we tend to address style as well as substance. But ... maybe political commentators could stand to take a few tips
  
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• Arts Coverage In The Black Press In The Jim Crow Era

  08-03-2017 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The black press flourished in the United States during these years, providing rich, varied reporting on political and cultural happenings that mainstream press outlets distorted or ignored. Critics and reporters on the arts beat not only brought to light the creative output of black artists, but also investigated the role the arts played in the long struggle against oppression, as well as the economic and cultural impact of the arts on black communities and the United States as a whole."
  
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• An Obituary For The NEA, Dead At 52 'Of Unnatural Causes'

  08-03-2017 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  "After brushes with extinction in the 1980s and 1990s, along with a three-decade wait to be launched after the McCarthy-era's relentless attacks on artists, police are describing the NEA's demise as 'totally preventable, but oddly, both a homicide and a suicide.'"
  
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• 'The 50 Greatest Conductors Of All Time', Per Gramophone Magazine

  08-03-2017 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let the arguments begin!
  
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• Morning Links: International Women’s Day Edition

  08-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Can Lyric Opera Of Chicago Survive The 21st Century?, Asks Leading Chicago Business Magazine

  08-03-2017 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lyric general director Anthony Freud, along with the company's CFO and board chairman, remember the days (the '90s and before) when their season sold out on subscription, describe the extra attention they're offering subscribers today, and list half a dozen strategies they're using to strengthen operations and increase income (which has been suffering).
  
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• 'Breaking The Glass-Slipper Ceiling' - Celia Fushille Marks 10 Years Running Smuin Ballet

  08-03-2017 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "She's one of nine women around the globe, from Toronto to Paris and Memphis to Miami, who head dance companies with annual budgets of $2.5 million or more."
  
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• Pennsylvania Ballet Cuts Back On Balanchine, Adds More Corella

  08-03-2017 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Though the Pennsylvania Ballet has long been considered a Balanchine company, it will perform fewer of his works than usual.[Artistic director Ángel] Corella has maintained that he is not a choreographer, but he is creating three new [story] ballets."
  
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• The First Known Depiction Of The Cosmos Is On A 3,600-Year-Old Disk

  08-03-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "There's been no shortage of controversy and speculation around the Nebra Sky Disk since it was ... exhumed illegally in 1999 in Nebra in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ..."
  
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• Kurt Moll, 78, One Of 20th Century's Great Bass Voices

  08-03-2017 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  "[He] was an imposing presence in any opera house; his height appeared greater than the 6ft 2in he claimed, his voice sounded deeper than the booming basso profundo he was billed as, and his personality exuded warmth and charm both on stage and off."
  
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• Denmark May Upend Its Orchestra Ecosystem

  08-03-2017 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Danish culture minister Mette Bock is planning to spin off the national broadcaster's orchestra, choir and concert hall (possibly to the national opera house) and eliminate the Copenhagen Philharmonic (not the capital's only orchestra), distributing its musicians and budget among four regional orchestras.
  
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• Billionaire Bernard Arnault expands his Parisian museum empire

  08-03-2017 11:11
  
  The French luxury goods billionaire Bernard Arnault is due to open a new museum in Paris, with plans to transform a defunct institution located in the western Bois de Boulogne area.
   
  According to the newspaper Le Parisien, the former Muse National des Arts et Traditions Populaires will be converted into a centre for arts and crafts and run by Arnaults LVMH company. The museum is near the Fondation Louis Vuitton building, Arnaults museum for Modern and contemporary art which opened in 2014
  
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