Because the Louvre stands beneath its timeless grandeur, the establishment finds itself at a fragile crossroads. In a candid interview with Oliver Farry, French Artwork Historian and Editor-in-Chief of La Tribune de l’Artwork, Didier Rykner sounds the alarm, not simply on mismanagement, however on a deeper malaise: a lack of path and goal cloaked in ambition. Beneath the rhetoric of grand initiatives bolstered by presidential backing, Mr. Rykner urges us to look extra intently on the fissures, each literal and symbolic, operating by the world’s most beloved museum. Are we witnessing France’s most iconic cultural emblem more and more adrift from its true “raison d’être”, weighed down by neglect and a imaginative and prescient of grandeur more and more indifferent from actuality?
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