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Peggy Guggenheim’s family revives feud by suing over art collection

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It is the most visited modern art museum in Italy, a sumptuous palace located on the Grand Canal in Venice.

But on Wednesday, the Peggy Guggenheim art collection will be the subject of a bitter court case in Paris pitting the mighty Guggenheim Foundation against two of the American art lover’s grandchildren. It is another stage of a long-running family feud whose first round concluded in 1994 with the grandchildren’s complaint being thrown out by a judge at the same Paris tribunal. Continue reading…

Paris Picasso museum staff call for sacking of director

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The reopening of the Picasso museum in Paris, after a €52m (£42m) renovation that took more than five years, should be a cause for celebration.

But instead, the museum in the Marais district has become caught up in a crisis, pitting the director and the artist’s only surviving son against the French culture ministry. Continue reading…