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Story Gail Asper never gave up on rights museum dream Martin Knelman, The Toronto Star, 6 November 2011 WINNIPEG – “[…] Unlike
Toronto, Winnipeg has done a beautiful job of redeveloping its waterfront.
Its civic leaders, unlike Toronto’s, have found creative ways of cooperating
with their senior government partners. And what really boosted spirits was
the miraculous return of the city’s beloved hockey team, the Jets, 15 years
after the team moved to Phoenix. But the biggest factor in Winnipeg’s revival
may be the opening (likely in 2014) of Canada’s first designated national
museum outside Ottawa — the Canadian
Museum for Human Rights, a $310 million work in progress. […] Gail Asper
has spent almost a decade as national campaign chair of the museum. She has
been working to ensure that the hugely ambitious project, which was floated
by her father, media mogul Izzy Asper, shortly before his sudden death in
2003, comes to fruition. She could hardly have given herself a more difficult
task, nor could she have anticipated all the nasty surprises that would seem
to block her way. But I defy anyone to spend half an hour in her company
without becoming a convert to her cause. I fell under her spell the day we
met in 2005. She has so far raised a phenomenal $130 million and hopes to
wrap up the capital campaign by raising another $20 million. That’s 2.5 times
her original $60 million target — but as costs escalated she went out and
found more money. An additional $163 million is covered by three governments.
“Gail Asper is Canada’s best fundraiser,” says Gail Dexter Lord, co-president of Lord Cultural Resources and a
consultant to the new Winnipeg museum. What’s her secret? “She’s smart but,
even better, she’s inspiring,” says Lord. “Plus she’s beautiful and
bilingual, and she can sing. And as a lawyer she really understands the
importance and relevance of human rights. So she can make a great case for
the museum.” It was as campaign chair for the United Way in 2002 that Asper
developed her skills at getting strangers to write cheques for a good cause.
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MP defends contradiction in museum funding statements CBC News,
Posted: Nov 8, 2011 7:54 PM MT Last Updated: Nov 8, 2011 7:58 PM MT EDMONTON – “Edmonton Centre
MP Laurie Hawn says the $85 million he once told constituents was committed
to the new Royal Alberta Museum
changed after the province altered the project. The Alberta government
postponed the project last month after stating the federal government pulled
$92 million in funding. Federal Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose replied
that Ottawa had not reneged on any funding promises. She claimed an earlier
$30 million commitment was still in place, an assertion that was repeated by
other Edmonton Conservative MPs, including Hawn. …” Windsorites have their say on new museum Some suggest a themed museum, others propose specific exhibits CBC News, 4 November 2011 WINDSOR, ON – “A crush of curious local historians and fans of
Windsor's heritage jammed a meeting room Thursday at Willistead Manor for a
chance to have their thoughts on a new museum heard. Approximately 60 people
formed a standing-room-only crowd to witness the unveiling of a feasibility
study for a new museum in Windsor. People had the opportunity to be
heard and note what they hope to see in such a project. They could provide
their ideas and ask questions. Museum planners cautious Ted Silberberg is the consultant working on the study. He is with Lord
Cultural Resources, the largest museum planning firm in the world.
Silberberg says after 30 years of talk that has gone nowhere, it's time
Windsor had a new museum. He says the city's existing museum is small, and
cannot do justice telling Windsor's stories. But Silberberg adds building a
new, larger facility will have to be balanced with what is affordable.
"It's tough economic times we're in, certainly, and so we want to dream
but we want to be practical at the same time," Silberberg said. "We
have to look at the issues of the size of the facility, the sites, the
visitor experience the level of capital investment, staffing. All those key
issues have to be taken into account." …” Museums
La Grande Guerre s'expose à Meaux, sans sang, sans cris, sans
larmes Philippe Dagen, Le Monde | 10.11.11 | 16h57 •
Mis à jour le 10.11.11 | 16h57 MEAUX, FRANCE – “Par deux
fois, en septembre 1914 et d'avril à juin 1918, le franchissement de la Marne
a été l'enjeu de combats décisifs. En 1918, l'intervention des troupes
américaines a largement contribué à l'arrêt de l'avancée allemande. En 1932,
sur une colline au-dessus de Meaux, un monument fut donc élevé par les
Etats-Unis, La Liberté éplorée, groupe du sculpteur Frederick MacMonnies.
Désormais, son oeuvre domine le Musée de la Grande Guerre, inauguré le 11
novembre. C'est là l'épilogue d'une histoire mêlant initiative privée et
décision politique. L'initiative, strictement personnelle, est celle d'un
photographe, Jean-Pierre Verney, qui commence dans les années 1960 à acheter
tout ce qui a trait à la première guerre mondiale. Il fréquente
systématiquement puces, brocantes, ventes aux enchères. Jusque dans les
années 1980, le sujet n'intéresse guère et les prix sont assez bas pour que,
sans moyens financiers considérables, Jean-Pierre Verney accumule au fil du
temps autour de 20 000 objets et de 30 000 documents. …” New fees to fight rising sea of costs Steve Meacham, The Sydney Morning Herald, November
11, 2011. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA –
“SYDNEY'S only federal museum, the Australian National Maritime Museum, is
reintroducing a general admission fee for the first time since 2003. From
December 2, adults will pay $7 and children $3.50, with a family ticket (two
adults and three children) costing $17.50. Pensioners will still be admitted
free. Museum director Mary-Louise Williams blamed the fee return on rising
costs. …” $22-million expansion lets Cranbrook Art Museum put its
entire collection on view Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press, 1:56 AM, Nov. 10,
2011 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN
– “Gregory Wittkopp steps off the elevator into a sprawling storage area in
the new Collections Wing of the renovated Cranbrook Art Museum. "We
wanted to institutionalize the wow factor," says Wittkopp, the museum's
director. Nearly the entire history of 20th Century furniture design suddenly
appears: shelves jammed with stunning chairs, tables and more. Many of these
classics were created by Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen and other
heroes of midcentury modernism affiliated with the Cranbrook Academy of Art,
the renowned citadel of art and design in Bloomfield Hills. Here is a peek
behind the curtain most folks never get. With the reopening of the Cranbrook
museum Friday after a two-year, $22 million expansion visitors will have
access to the vaults in ways unique within the museum world. …” [see also The Cranbrook Art Museum Reopens, By Steven Kurutz, The New York Times, 9 November 2011] Some Artifacts Are Gone, but Not Pride in a War Correspondent
Who Mattered Dan Barry, The New York Times, 10 November 2011 DANA, INDIANA – “No one
comes by accident to Dana, a dot of a place that takes up less than half a
square mile of Indiana’s cornfield sprawl. It has a bank, a tavern, a beauty
parlor, a post office, an empty lot where the last grocery burned down, and
500 residents, maybe. Those who find themselves here have cause. The usual
reason anyone not from Dana comes to Dana is to visit the Ernie Pyle museum.
But if you have no memories of World War II, you may not recognize the Pyle
name, which is a problem for Dana and too bad for you. Ernie Pyle, once a
peerless war correspondent — the bard of the grunt — deserves your notice.
Two years ago, the state of Indiana cut the Ernie Pyle site loose from the
government fold to save a little money; the attendance was too low and the
site too remote, it said. But even before announcing its decision, the state
very quietly relieved Dana of Pyle’s typewriter, passport and other choice
artifacts, without so much as a courtesy call to the local group dedicated to
honoring a neighborhood boy who made good. …” Entièrement
restaurée la Pièce des bains de Marie-Antoinette à Versailles rouvre au
public Artclair, 10 November 2011 VERSAILLES – « La nouvelle salle des bains de Marie-Antoinette au
château de Versailles a été inaugurée le 7 novembre 2011. Les travaux de
restauration et de remeublement, estimés à 200 000 euros, ont été financés
par la société des Amis de Versailles et la société des Amis européens de
Versailles. Pour restituer l’ambiance d’époque, l’artiste Isabelle de
Borchgrave a créé une scénographie originale faite d’œuvres en papier.
… » Le
musée d’art de Tel Aviv inaugure son extension Artclair, 9 November 2011 TEL AVIV – « Le Musée d’art de Tel-Aviv vient d’inaugurer un nouveau
bâtiment futuriste. Il s’agit de son dernier agrandissement, une aile
dessinée par l’architecte bostonien Preston Scott Cohen et qui aura coûté
plus de 55 millions de dollars. … » Latin American Art is Booming, But Museums Struggle to
Attract Latino Audiences Robin Cembalest, Fox News Latino,
9 November 2011 US – “The Latin American art market jumps into high gear this month.
At Sotheby’s auction house in New York, offerings include Rufino Tamayo’s
mouthwatering Watermelon Slices, estimated to sell for up to $2 million.
Christie’s has paintings by Diego Rivera, Fernando Botero, Wifredo Lam, and
other big names. Meanwhile the Pinta art fair, opening Thursday across from
the Empire State Building, hopes to entice buyers with classic Latin American
modernism as well as the latest works by well-known (and emerging)
contemporary figures. The five-year-old fair makes a particular commitment to
helping art museums acquire these works—in a special program, it offers them
up to $250,000 in matching funds. Museum schedules are also packed with Latin
American art this season. […] These
blockbusters will inevitably lure scholars from all over the world. But will
they be seen by the immigrants from the countries where the treasures were
made? That’s not so apparent. As art museums invest an increasing amount of
resources to buy and showcase examples of Latin American heritage,
programming directed at Latin American audiences lags far behind. A recent
study by the American Association Museums estimates nonwhite museum visitors
at 9 percent—a figure that’s spectacularly low when you consider the urban locations
of many top art museums …” Harper
Government invests in Orillia Museum of Art and History Canadian Heritage, November 9, 2011 ORILLIA, ONTARIO – “The Orillia Museum of Art and History (OMAH) will
be able to increase exhibits and educational programming for visitors in a
newly renovated, accessible building, thanks to an investment from the
Government of Canada. This was announced today by Bruce Stanton, Member of
Parliament (Simcoe North), on behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister
of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages. Upgrades to the historic Sir
Samuel Steele Memorial Building, where the museum is located, will enable the
museum to host a greater number of exhibits. In addition, it will add a new
space for group heritage activities, increase its storage space for
collections, and make the building accessible for the disabled. …” Saudi artist targeted over Jerusalem show Ahmed Mater is condemned by online petition after his work is shown at
museum on the “Green Line” The Art Newspaper. From News, Issue
229, November 2011, Published online: 09 November 2011 JERUSALEM – “The Saudi artist Ahmed Mater has become the subject of an
online campaign in Saudi Arabia calling for his immediate censure by the
Saudi government, following the inclusion of his work Evolution of Man, 2010,
in an exhibition in Israel. The show, “West End”, opened this summer at Jerusalem’s
Museum on the Seam, a socio-political contemporary art museum on the edge of
the ultra-orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea She’arim. The display garnered
extensive media coverage largely thanks to the participation, alongside 21
other artists, of seven non-Israeli artists of Middle Eastern origin. Of
these, only two live permanently in the country of their birth: the Egyptian
artist Moataz Nasr and Mater. Several weeks after the opening of “West End”
in Jerusalem, messages predominantly from fellow Saudis began to appear on
Mater’s Facebook page. Although some were supportive of the inclusion of his
work in “West End”, the majority were not. One female Saudi artist wrote (in
English): “This is treason at the highest level. He [Mater] should be made an
example of.” …” The largest film museum in the world - China National Film
Museum China.org.cn, 9 November 2011 BEIJING – “China National Film Museum was founded in 2005 to
commemorate the 100th anniversary of Chinese film, and is the largest
professional film museum in the world. Getting to the museum is a bit of a
hike, with its location near the Airport Expressway in Beijing's northeastern
part. …” How can museums secure Arts Council funding? For museums after a slice of the funding pie, the Arts Council is
'brimming with enthusiasm', says Maurice Davies, head of policy and
communication at the Museums Association Posted by The Museums Association and Maurice Davies, part of the Guardian Culture Professionals Network, 9 November 2011 ENGLAND – “Arts Council England (ACE) has just announced an almost
bewildering range of new funding streams. It gives an indication of the
wonderful opportunities being opened up to museums. Among other things,
there's money for touring (that could mean touring exhibitions); money for
museums to get involved in Artsmark, which encourages school involvement;
money to increase, widen and sustain audiences; and money focused on areas
with low levels of cultural participation. It's not yet entirely clear to
what extent these funds are open to museums, particularly as most of the
money comes from the arts lottery. But Arts Council chief executive Alan
Davey says that while applications need to be in some way arts-related, he's
"pretty open minded." …” Music course, auditorium, museum to be GU tributes Pranjal Baruah, TNN, The Times
of India, Nov 9, 2011, 11.55AM IST GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA: “Expressing its gratitude to the maestro,
Gauhati University (GU) has planned to introduce a separate course on the
music of the revolutionary singer. The university, which has already made
grand cremation preparations, to be held at the campus, has placed a set of
proposals before the state government to make the 'signature music' of the
legend a new addition to its educational syllabus. The university has also
chalked out a blueprint to set up a modern auditorium, to be named after the
legend, along with a digital archive to preserve his songs. […] An exclusive
museum in tribute to the maestro is on GU cards as well. "There will be
a museum in memory of Bhupenda. Though the details are yet to be decided, the
tentative plan is to preserve sundry belongings of Bhupenda in the
museum," Dutta said. …” Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum breaks tourist record Doğan News Agency (DHA), Hurriyet
Daily News, Tuesday, November 8, 2011 BODRUM, TURKEY – “The Underwater Archaeology Museum, one of the most
popular venues for tourists visiting the Aegean holiday resort town of
Bodrum, receives plenty of visitors, even in winter. The museum will add two
more rooms of underwater discoveries in the next few months. Bodrum
Underwater Archaeology Museum, known as the only underwater museum in Europe,
attracts great attention from tourists even at the end of the tourist season.
The museum, visited by more than 300,000 people a year, has 13 display rooms
where the world’s oldest sunken wrecks are exhibited. Two more display rooms
will be added to the existing ones this year …” Opposition MPs stick up for Air and Space museum CTV Toronto, 8 November 2011 TORONTO – “Some opposition MPs loaned their support to the beleaguered
Canadian Air and Space Museum, which is facing an eviction notice from a
federally-operated park in north Toronto. The museum may have to shut
down as early as Dec. 21. Downsview Park, a federal agency, wants to build an
ice rink on the museum's current site as part of long-term redevelopment
plans. …” [For more commentary on this topic, see
also Vet considers Toronto’s imperilled air museum a monument to
war heroes, By Matt Demers, The Globe and
Mail, Published Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 8:30PM EST, Last updated Tuesday,
Nov. 8, 2011 11:04PM EST, and Pushing to save historic museum, By Sharon Lem ,Toronto Sun, First posted: Tuesday,
November 08, 2011 05:19 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 07:43 PM
EST] Munch plans in disarray amid political row Museum relocation deadlocked as city parliament splits over
controversial design By Clemens Bomsdorf. The Art
Newspaper, Issue 229, November 2011, Published online: 08 November 2011 OSLO – “The plans for a new high-rise building on Oslo’s waterfront to
house the Munch Museum have been thrown into disarray after the city
parliament rejected plans for the project at the end of September. Following
local elections, there is no longer a political majority in favour of
building “Lambda”, as it is known, which was originally due to be completed
in 2014. Carl Hagen, the head of the Fremskrittspartiet (Progress Party,
FrP), says: “Lambda is history now. We have to leave it behind and start from
scratch.” Stein Olav Henrichsen, the director of the museum, which is
currently located in the Tøyen district of the city, says that he is not
worried by the setback …” Changing Exhibitions at Museums – Part Two Reach Advisors, Museum Audience
Insight, 8 November 2011 “In our last post, we shared a research query we had received about
the value of changing exhibitions to a museum, and how we went about plumbing
the depths of our databases to see what we could find. In this post, we’ll
tackle the first two ways we examined the data, asking ourselves: •How do different audience segments view the exhibitions quality at
the museum they responded to when asked what “their” museum does well? •How do those who specifically said “their” museum had “good exhibits”
differ from the overall samples? …” BSU art museum renamed to honor major benefactor David Owsley thestarpress.com, 8 November 2011 MUNCIE, INDIANA – “David Owsley's art has graced the Ball State
University Museum of Art for decades and now his name will be reflected as
well. The name David Owsley was added on Oct. 6, making it the David Owsley
Museum of Art. Owsley, an 82-year-old former Muncie resident and grandson of
Frank C. Ball, has been a major benefactor for about 40 years, donating or
helping to procure pieces for the museum's collection as well as working to
raise capital to expand the museum. Some of the gifts have brought the museum
attention from art lovers worldwide. …” Plans
take shape for national design museum in Germany Deutsche Welle World, 7 November 2011 BERLIN – “German design
tradition is world-renowned for high quality and being at the vanguard of
innovation. Plans are being made for a new national design museum to honor
that legacy. From the Pfaff sewing machine and Marianne Brandt's teapot
designs to the Volkswagen Beetle and the Ampelmännchen streetlight figures -
Germany is famous for design. It is perhaps surprising, then, that Germany
has no national museum of design. A new campaign launched by the German
Design Council aims to change that. "Regional design museums in Germany
focus on the 19th and early 20th century, on applied art and crafts, and not
industrial design. They also tend to separate design from culture,"
Andrej Kupetz, head of the German Design Council, told Deutsche Welle.
"We want to find new ways of exhibiting design without reducing it to
art." The Council, made up of 170 members from a variety of sectors,
believes people don't recognize the extent to which design has had an impact
on culture. They've established a foundation to fund the German Design
Museum, which is to be built in Berlin. …” B.C. hopeful Chinese museum deal will promote Barkerville
tourism Victoria Times Colonist, 6 November 2011 BARKERVILLE, BC – “The
provincial government has reached an agreement with the Guangdong Museum of
Overseas Chinese to bring overseas tourists to a historical photography
exhibit in Barkerville. The agreement illustrates the role Chinese migrants
had in the province’s history and will increase tourism in northern B.C.,
Tourism Minister Pat Bell says. The
exhibit, titled Who Am I?, explores the lives of Chinese migrants who came to
Barkerville and area during and after the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1860s. It
is expected to be on display at the Guangdong museum in the provincial
capital, Guangzhou, in the spring of 2013. 10 more museums for Dubai by 2015 Sajila Saseendran, Kaleej Times, 6 November 2011, 9:35 PM DUBAI – “Dubai will have 10
new museums by 2015, according to a senior official with Dubai Municipality.
Director of Architectural Heritage Department of Dubai Municipality Rashad
Mohammed Bukhash told Khaleej Times that at least one of them will open to
the public by December. “It will be a tribute to Emirati poet (Mubarak) Al
Aqaili and will be located in his old house in Al Ras in Deira,” he said. Interactive museum creator awarded By Carla P. Gomez, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 10:01 pm
Sunday, November 6th, 2011 SAGAY CITY, PHILLIPINES –
“She has always been passionate about teaching children how to love the
environment. So Elizabeth Cordova made sure that the Museo sang Bata sa
Negros in Sagay City would be interactive to make learning fun, especially
for children. Because of her efforts, Cordova, director of the Museo sang
Bata sa Negros, will receive this year’s Hans Manneby Memorial Fund Museum
Development Award during a ceremony in Stockholm on November 10. The Hans
Manneby Memorial Fund for Museum Development was created to promote museum
development and to commemorate Hans Manneby (1946-2008), former chair of Swedish
International Council of Museums (Icoms). Manneby was the first chair of the
executive committee of SAMP, the African-Swedish Museums Network, which plays
an important role in the development of museums and museum professionals in
Africa and Sweden through networking, professional exchanges and capacity
building. Awards are given to individuals who have contributed to innovative
ways of developing museums, as well as nonconventional approaches to
learning. …” US history museums struggle to update exhibits Wall Street Journal, 6 November 2011 LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — “Robert
Flacke Sr. can remember the days when Fort William Henry's multimedia exhibit
consisted of two Kodak carousel-style color slide projectors that kept
breaking down. The history-heavy tourist attraction on the southern end of
Lake George upgraded years ago to a video display, an improvement that looks
positively futuristic amid all the aging, dusty exhibits sprinkled throughout
the privately owned reconstructed French and Indian War fort and museum. Many
of the displays look like they haven't changed since the place was built more
than a half-century ago. In an effort to boost numbers of visitors, museum
and historical sites around the country are searching for new ways to update
old exhibits amid a time of economic uncertainty and declining support for
museums in general and history museums in particular …” Why should museums be stuck in cities? Holly Finn, The Wall Street Journal, 5 November 2011 BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS – “[…] Set
among the hickory and tulip trees on 120 acres of woodland, Crystal Bridges
is an impious, spiriting place to find A+ art. "Physically, we're not a
big white neo-classical temple on a hill," Don Bacigalupi, the museum's
rail thin and whip-smart director, told me during a sneak peek. "You
discover the museum in the ravine here, not above your head."
Sophisticates gripe, of course. They say such a top-drawer collection should
be more accessible. What they mean is, it should be more accessible to them.
But why should art be sandwiched in cities? City folk may go to more opening
parties, but they're no more culture hungry. Often less. In the meantime,
talk here in the local bar is all about the new museum. Wal-Mart itself has
just pledged $20 million to it, making admission free for all. …” [see also The collection that Walmart built. Opening soon: Alice
Walton’s long awaited Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, By Brook S.
Mason. The Art Newspaper, Issue
229, November 2011, Published online: 08 November 2011, and A hinterland
beauty, The Economist, 12
November 2011 (from the print edition)] La
renaissance du Musée Picasso Artclair, 4 novembre 2011 PARIS - Fermé en août 2009, le Musée Picasso, à Paris, prépare sa
renaissance. Le chantier a pris du retard, son budget a plus que doublé,
aussi la réouverture a-t-elle été repoussée au 1er mai 2013. Outre le
réaménagement de l’hôtel Salé, une nouvelle aile est projetée dans le parc du
musée pour l’automne 2013. Ouverture
d’un nouveau musée Cocteau à Menton Artclair, 4 November 2011 MENTON, FRANCE - Un nouveau musée consacré à l’œuvre et à la vie de Jean
Cocteau ouvre ses portes à Menton. Créé pour exposer les
1 800 œuvres de la collection Wunderman appartenant à la ville, il
constitue désormais la ressource publique la plus importante au monde pour
cet artiste français. [see also Jean Cocteau Severin Wundeman Collection Museum opens in
Menton, France, artdaily.org, 7
November 2011] NPA wants to expedite move of Vancouver Art Gallery to Cambie
Street Vision says gallery move not a sure thing Cheryl Rossi, Vancouver Courier, 4 November 2011 VANCOUVER – “The NPA says they'll give the Vancouver Art Gallery the
rights to the full property between Cambie, Beatty, Georgia and Dunsmuir to
develop a world-class institution if elected Nov. 19. "We've wasted a
lot of the art gallery's time," said NPA council hopeful Elizabeth Ball.
The NPA also said it would support the Museum of Vancouver, the Maritime
Museum and a proposed concert hall with infrastructure money in its arts and
culture policy, released Oct. 31. Vision and COPE vowed in their arts and
culture platform to expedite public consultation on on-site expansion, a move
to the West Georgia Street Canada Post building or to the Cambie Street
grounds. Ball insists the gallery needs to move so it can, at the very least,
display the majority of its artwork that's held in storage. …” Au Musée d’Orsay et au MBAM - La couleur déferle sur les murs
des musées Isabelle Paré, Le Devoir, 4 novembre 2011 MONTREAL & PARIS – “Le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM)
n'est pas le seul à avoir troqué le blanc de ses salles d'exposition pour une
déferlante de couleurs. À Paris, le prestigieux Musée d'Orsay, tout juste
rouvert après des travaux majeurs de réaménagement, a lui aussi opté pour la
mare aux coloris. […] Faut-il voir là un nouveau courant muséal? «Le blanc tue toute peinture, en dehors de l'art du XXe siècle et de
l'art contemporain. Lorsque vous placez une peinture académique ou
impressionniste sur un fond blanc, le rayonnement du blanc, son halo
d'indétermination autour de l'oeuvre empêchent la révélation des contrastes
de valeur, parfois si subtils. Le blanc est l'ennemi de la peinture, à mon
avis», explique Guy Cogeval, président du Musée d'Orsay, sur le site Internet
de l'institution, rouverte au public le 12 octobre dernier. …” |
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