Centre Pompidou to shut for three years for renovations
The famous Centre Pompidou, a sprawling modernist complex in central Paris that houses one of the world’s leading art museums, is set to close from 2023 to 2026 for maintenance work, the French government has announced.
The center has been a provocative presence in the city since it opened in 1977, becoming instantly renowned for Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’ bold, industrial aesthetic that collides strikingly with the traditional buildings that surround it.
It houses the National Museum of Modern Art, which boasts one of the world’s largest collections of modern art and is among the most-visited galleries in the world.
A museum that collects and teaches about making and repairing fans cannot get enough visitors. The museum’s director warns all its knowledge is threatened with disappearing.
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Anne Hoguet, 74, fan maker and director of the hand fan-making museum poses with a a wood roasted hand fan representing the falcon hunt, gouache painting on paper dated from 1880 in Paris. Photo: AP
Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, France’s storied fan-making museum could fold and vanish. The splendid Musee de l’Eventail in Paris, classed as a historical monument, is the cultural world’s latest coronavirus victim.
It has until Jan 23 to pay up over US$142,000 (RM574,000) in rent arrears - stemming mainly from losses during lockdowns, otherwise it will close. And with it will go the savoir-faire of its workshop. The studio that teaches design and restoration to a new generation of fan-makers was placed on France’s intangible heritage list last year.
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Anne Hoguet, director of the hand fan-making museum poses with a wood roasted hand fan representing the falcon hunt, dated from 1880 in Paris, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP) Asharq Al-Awsat
Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, France’s storied fan-making museum could fold and vanish. The UN’s cultural agency has called on France to do more to stop the splendid Musee de l’Eventail in Paris becoming the cultural world’s latest coronavirus victim.
The museum classed as a historical monument has until Jan. 23 to pay up over 117,000 euros ($142,000) in rent arrears stemming mainly from losses during lockdowns, otherwise it will close. And with it will go the savoir-faire of its workshop. The studio that teaches design and restoration to a new generation of fan-makers was placed on France’s intangible heritage list last year.