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...union Des Musées Nationaux French museums club together and peddle products from this online shop. The replica jewelry looks startlingly modern, like the Lydian pierced-disk pendant ($58-$330, various sizes and materials) - based on one found in a 6th century B.C. tomb in what is now Turkey. The gilt-bead necklace - the original comes from Iron Age Tréglonou, Brittany - has a definite touch of class ($209). www.museesdefrance.com...
...past decade the American public, mainly in New York City and Washington, has been treated to one of the historic events in the life of the modern museum: the collaboration between U.S. institutions and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux on a series of retrospectives of the great French artists of the 19th century. Edouard Manet in 1983; Vincent van Gogh in 1984 and 1986; Paul Gauguin, Gustave Courbet and Edgar Degas in 1988; Claude Monet in 1990 -- all these, done at the highest pitch of curatorial skill, have redefined the School of Paris...
...takes one great exhibition to open the subject afresh; and now it has come, under the title "French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution." Jointly organized by France's Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Metropolitan Museum, it was seen last year at the Grand Palais in Paris. In an abbreviated form (149 paintings out of the original 207), it opened last week in Detroit, and will go to the Met in June...
Tourists Only. When Auric first took on the weighty title of Administrateur de la Réunion des Théátres Lyriques Nationaux, he took on a ponderous load of problems as well (TIME, April 27, 1962). Mired in a vast swamp of bureaucracy, militant unions and second-rate talent, the state-operated Paris Opera had foundered helplessly for nearly two decades. Five postwar administrators had promised revolution, only to sink quietly into the morass. Some tried staging productions à la Folies-Bergère, featuring flights of ballerinas being hoisted to heaven on wires, madly flapping their arms...
...heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making physical war on the opium growers." Instead, the government will employ the moral suasion of the Comite de Defense des Interets Nationaux, led by ascetic young army officers, government workers and officials of the royal household. The villages are to be purified by the means of mo lam, or blind wandering minstrels who are traditional Laotian entertainers and have added to their repertory special anti-vice and anti-Communist songs and recitals...