Is it the art market that is gaining ground or the profound evolution of the art world itself where the boundaries between private and public have changed considerably over the past twenty years?
Both, no doubt.
The departure of Sylvie Patry, number two from the Musée d'Orsay where she is still director of conservation and collections, for the Kamel Mennour gallery, a Parisian bastion of contemporary art, is an explosive announcement which should arouse more than one reaction in the hushed world of museums.
She leaves just as the exhibition
Munch, a poem of life, love and death
promises to be a colossal success (7,000 people a day!).
On September 14, 2021, Christophe Leribault, director of the Petit Palais since 2012, was appointed president of the Orsay and Orangerie museums - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Art historian forged in the American school by her high responsibilities at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia where she acted as deputy director and curator…
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