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Headline: New York Times, 12/6/2025
Mr. Cogeval was a curator who broke norms and shattered expectations with blockbuster exhibitions at the Orsay, which opened in 1986 in a cavernous converted rail station on the Left Bank in Paris. [emphasis added]
During his tenure as director of the museum, which mainly holds French art from the mid-19th century to the early 20th, Mr. Cogeval was credited with doubling the number of visitors and adding for historical context photographs, long-overlooked academic (or “pompier”) paintings, and texts accompanying the exhibits that delved into sociology and psychology.
He used the building’s irregular configuration to its best advantage, setting pictures against dark backgrounds in its crannies and sharpening the lighting, and he stretched the museum’s purview back into the 18th century and forward toward modernism.
It was a bit of a wait to get inside.
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