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Article: "Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile" The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. February 1-April 24, 2005.
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- June 1, 2005
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Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, Massachusetts. June 5-September 5, 2005
About the last thing one should wish on anyone is "curator of an exhibition on Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)." But this is the fate that has befallen those curators, led by Philippe Bordes, at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Mark Twain famously warned that "Wagner's music is better than it sounds," and so too it goes for David. Jacques-Louis is a fantastic artist who rarely measures up to himself.
There are of course the practical considerations. Mounting a David show in the United States can be ...
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