When the French novelist Patrick Modiano won the Nobel prize for literature this month, the international reaction could be summed up in two words: who he? Continue reading…
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Paris Picasso museum staff call for sacking of director
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…