It was the Louvre’s plans to open a satellite museum in Abu Dhabi that thrust Didier Rykner into the spotlight. Back in 2007, the news caused an uproar in France’s art world. An opinion piece in Le Monde provocatively titled, ‘Our museums are not for sale,’ was swiftly followed by a petition launched by Rykner, up until then a more-or-less unknown amateur art historian who ran his own website…
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