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6 days ago

News & notes: Maryhill Museum opens, remembering Mulugeta Seraw and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

Maryhill Museum of Art reopened for its 2026 season, marking 100 years since Queen Marie of Romania dedicated the clifftop mansion-turned-museum in 1926.
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2 months ago

The Louvre is the pride of France and it's on the verge of collapse. Can we rescue it in time? | Agnes Poirier

Charles V kept his celebrated library here; Henri IV installed his cabinets of paintings, objets d'art and arms, and created within its walls a veritable city of artists, where cabinetmakers, tapestry-makers, painters and armourers lived and worked. Under Louis XIII, coins, medals and the Louvre's printing press were added; under Louis XIV came casts, antiquities and the academies of architecture, the arts and the sciences.
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