A woman taking an art class at The Met accidentally damaged a rare painting by Pablo Picasso during an accidential fall. The work, entitled “The Actor,” was left ripped after an art student lost her balance and tumbled into the canvas last week, officials at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said Sunday.
Painted in the winter [...]
The “restored” version of A Moveable Feast goes right up there with “New Coke” as a bad conception.
The first in a summer series on hidden-gem museums
PARIS, London, Amsterdam and New York are only some of the cities that house treasure-filled museums that deserve to be higher up on any “must see” list. Over the course of the summer, this column will highlight more of these gems, beginning with one of France’s best-kept secrets: the National Museum of the Renaissance at the Chateau d’Ecouen.
The museum is only 20 minutes from the Gare du Nord in Paris; entry is included in that city’s museum pass. Even so, it remains obscure, as attendance figures suggest: in 2005, Ecouen had only 5,000 visitors. The number last year reached 85,000, but this remains a low figure for a museum of Ecouen’s calibre. The Musee de Cluny in Paris, for example, which is France’s National Museum of the Middle Ages, had almost 400,000 last year. (New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art drew 4m.) …
