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New young artists join oldtimers at Montmartre's Place du Tertre in Paris
21/01/2013 - On-the-spot France

New young artists join oldtimers at Montmartre's Place du Tertre in Paris

Paris City Council is launching a project to encourage new young artists to join the regulars painting in the Place du Tertre, the small square in the heart of Montmartre.

31/08/2012 - France

Art exhibitions in Paris, autumn-winter 2012

From guaranteed crowd pleasers – Dali at the Pompidou, Hopper at the Grand Palais – to the quieter pleasures of Raphael at the Louvre, Canaletto at the Musée Mailllol and tea at ...

23/04/2011 - France

Absinthe to go on sale in France again

Hallucination-prone artists and depressed poets can sup their favourite drink again in French bars after parliament this week legalised the use of the term absinthe for the sale of the notorious ...

22/08/2010 - Egypt

Cairo police search for now-it's-found now-it's-not Van Gogh

Egypt stepped up the search for a stolen Van Gogh painting on Sunday, after Culture Minister Farouq Hosni first declared it had been found and then declared it was still missing.

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