Unveiled on 25 March, American painter Cy Twombly’s new ceiling at the Louvre marks the third time the museum has invited a contemporary artist to permanently install their work within its hallowed halls (after Anselm Kiefer and François Morellet). Twombly is known for his passionate, reactionary paintings – most with words scrawled across the canvas. [...] [...]
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American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth has fitted the Louvre with his most recent installation, Ni apparence ni illusion (Neither Appearance Nor Illusion). Illuminating the Louvre’s subterranean, medieval foundations with the eerie miasma of white neon, Kosuth has crafted fifteen obscure French phrases and cast them in neon tubing, distributing them along the passages’ stony [...] [...] |
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