October 16, 2006 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • ‘Louvre Atlanta’ At The High Museum of Art Showcases Royal Collections
    October 16, 2006

    In mid-September, when some art-world elite were jetting off to Paris for the Biennale des Antiquaires, curators at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and their colleagues from the Musée du Louvre in Paris were preparing for one of the most notable cultural exchanges since France presented the United States with the Statue of Liberty in 1885.

    Called “Louvre Atlanta,” the partnership forged by High Museum director Michael E. Shapiro and his counterpart, Henri Loyrette, president and director of the Louvre, debuted on October 14 in the High Museum’s new 10,000-square-foot Anne Cox Chambers Wing. The galleries are part of the $170 million Woodruff Arts Center expansion, designed by Genoa-based Renzo Piano Building Workshop and completed in November 2005.



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