Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Renoir -- has altered the way one thinks about the achievements of French art and deeply revised one's view of the individual painters. The Toulouse-Lautrec show, curated by an English art historian, Richard Thomson, and two French ones, Claire Freches-Thory and Anne Roquebert of the Musee d'Orsay, is no exception. A few important paintings could not be had, but Lautrec has never been seen as fully as this before, or put as firmly and intelligently in his contexts, both aesthetic and social...
...prince? As it turns out, no. Apart from the fact that some works of art should never travel, and deserve the tribute of a pilgrimage, their absence forces one to concentrate on the abundance of others that the curatorial team, headed by Francoise Cachin of the Musee d'Orsay, has assembled...
...images -- evoking the student-worker upheaval of 1968 -- were enough to make any French government tremble: wisps of tear gas drifting across the Seine, helmeted riot police chasing stone-throwing youths in the Latin Quarter, cars set ablaze along the Quai d'Orsay...