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Sweden, Switzerland, for example—play a significant part the growing volume of protest at the sclerosis of official-
in the international art movement by dint of talent and dom. The aim would be to create an organization devoted
devotion. Paris is not a desert—far from it. There are solely to research and directed by Francois Mathey, at
still enough artists around Montparnasse to dazzle the present director of the Musée des Arts Decoratifs. This
world. Bold, innovating, solitary artists. Men who have new organization would take in the Musée d'Art
no audience, no buyers and no gallery, who work amid Moderne and would institute exchanges with New York,
indifference and neglect until they are discovered by London, Amsterdam and Paris. But the old structure is
other countries. These are the new ghosts of Paris. strong in Paris, and there is no way of knowing whether
Recently we have heard a great deal about a project to this 'last resort' plan will be able to overcome the for-
radically reshape cultural organs in France, put for- midable administrative barrier at present in firm control.
ward only a short time ago by Gaëtan Picon, M. Mal- And yet the future of cultural life in France depends on it.
raux's assistant at the Ministry of Culture, in answer to n
Tingueley
Mathematique 1959
8ft high
This work formerly in
Paris has now found a
home in the Moderna
Museet, Stockholm