Frédéric Mougenot, curator of the Antiques and Ceramics collections
A new gallery opens at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, dedicated to the influences of other continents on European art from the 16th to the 20th century. As the only thematic gallery in the chronological tour on the museum floor, it proposes to adapt the view that has been given so far on the works, to perceive the echoes of the distant and place them in the context of the first globalizations. Its conception presupposes a selection of works, comparisons, renunciations, aesthetic and ethical choices. It allows us to realize the biases of the collection, its strengths and its shortcomings in writing a globalized art history.