Le Pont-Neuf de Christo. Ouvrage d'art, oeuvre d'art ou comment se faire une opinion. Photographie A large part of the

A large part of the works are loans from the Egyptian rooms of the Egyptian Antiquities Department of the Louvre Museum

Between Impressionism and Japonism

at a time when the dying Republic was about to succumb to the daggers of Caesar's assassins

was director of archeology for the Canton of Geneva from 1972 to 1998

une nouvelle génération d'artistes remet en cause la figuration

Le Pont-Neuf de Christo. Ouvrage d'art, oeuvre d'art ou comment se faire une opinion. Photographie A large part of theTo rediscover the strange effect produced by the wrapping of the Pont Neuf, we must go back in time, when Christo was still little known to the general public. In 1985, the meaning of such an unprecedented, collective, and ephemeral undertaking was far from self evident, at least for the uninitiated: were we still dealing with a work of artthe bridgeor a work of art? How could we form an opinion? And should we even take all this seriously, which