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artnet News
March 21, 2018
The City of Paris and the French ministry of culture is now deciding whether to paint it red, another color or stick with “Eiffel Tower Brown.” Nothing has been decided so far. First, a team of specialist architects must evaluate how to proceed in stripping and adding another paint color, and how this will affectÃâà...
BW Businessworld
March 13, 2018
With over 2,500 students, an alumni network of over one lakh, and spread over nine different locations in France and India, LISAA is one of the most reputed French Design Schools recognized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. With a dynamic placement cell, LISAA provides 100%Ãâà...
Digital TV Europe
March 13, 2018
Canal+'s move follows a demand by the French ministry of culture that it re-commence distribution on the channel to free-to-air TNT Sat satellite homes, 1.5 million of which cannot receive TV signals from other sources. Canal+ earlier last week resumed distribution of TF1's services to all satellite subscribersÃâà...
Digital TV Europe
March 9, 2018
The move follows a demand by the French ministry of culture that it re-commence distribution on the channel to free-to-air TNT Sat satellite homes, 1.5 million of which cannot receive TV signals from other sources. Canal+ earlier this week resumed distribution of TF1's services to all satellite subscribers,Ãâà...
The Saint
March 8, 2018
“I volunteered at a short film festival in my hometown in Romania – it was partly organised by the French Ministry of Culture. It was an exciting project where I got to see how different elements of culture can be mixed together in films, such as music, social aspects and even political commentary,” Ms NicolaeÃâà...
NPR
February 25, 2018
The Louvre Museum in Paris is trying to write a decades-old wrong. It has designated two rooms for paintings looted by Nazis. Those paintings' owners have never been found. The museum says the exhibit is part of a continuing effort to find the rightful owners of the artworks. NPR's Eleanor BeardsleyÃâà...
KEYT
February 23, 2018
They were checking the luggage compartment of a bus parked at a rest area in Seine-et-Marne, outside Paris, the French Ministry of Culture said in a press release Friday. "In a suitcase, they discovered a work carrying the signature 'Degas' for which no passenger came forward as the owner," the ministryÃâà...
RFI
February 23, 2018
It prompted the French culture ministry, which has generally overturned the bans, to order a rethink of the rules. Von Trier, the notoriously provocative Danish director, who revels in putting audiences and his actors through the wringer, admitted that "Antichrist" was not for the faint-hearted when it was firstÃâà...
WPLG Local 10
February 23, 2018
... years after it was stolen from a Marseille museum. "The Chorus Singers," painted in 1877, was found February 16 by customs agents. They were checking the luggage compartment of a bus parked at a rest area in Seine-et-Marne, outside Paris, the French Ministry of Culture said in a press release Friday.
The Spokesman-Review
February 23, 2018
The French Culture Ministry said Friday that customs agents in Marne-la-Vallee were surprised to find a work of art bearing the signature “Degas” inside a suitcase in the bus' luggage compartment. The ministry says none of the passengers claimed the suitcase during the Feb. 16 search. Experts verified theÃâà...
WAMU 88.5
February 14, 2018
Now, seven decades later, several of those masterworks are finally coming home. The French Culture Ministry returned three paintings by the 16th-century Flemish artist Joachim Patinir to the heirs of their rightful owners at a ceremony Monday at the Louvre in Paris. Among them was Patinir's Triptych of theÃâà...
Beacon Hill Times
December 31, 1999
Previously a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Thibaudet was awarded the title Officier by the French Ministry of Culture in 2012. Cultural programs are at the core of the French Cultural Center's mission to promote the vibrant growth of francophone cultures and the French language in NewÃâà...
The Livingston Enterprise
December 31, 1999
PARIS (AP) — French customs officers have found an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas stowed on a bus, more than eight years after it was reported stolen. The French Culture Ministry said Friday that customs agents in Marne-la-Vallee were surprised to find a work of art bearing the signature “Degas” inside a suitcaseÃâà...