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Laurence des Cars (born Laurence Élisabeth de Pérusse des Cars on 13 June 1966) is a French museum curator and art historian. Since September 2021, she has served as director of the Louvre Museum , having previously headed the Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie .
Jun 4, 2021 · A Powerful Leader. The child of an upper-crust family of writers, Des Cars studied art history at the elite École du Louvre. She organized a number of important exhibitions of 19th-century art, but gained global prominence as scientific director of the France-Muséums agency.
Apr 21, 2023 · Louvre director Laurence des Cars: ‘We have to face all the dark spots of our history’. The Paris museum’s head on why big cultural institutions must not duck the issue of restitution, making...
A renowned expert in 19th-century art and the former president of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, Cars is the first woman to lead the world’s largest museum, the Louvre since 2021.
May 26, 2021 · For the first time since its creation in 1793 in the wake of the French Revolution, the Musée du Louvre will be headed by a woman, Laurence des Cars, the current head of the Musée d’Orsay and...
May 26, 2021 · Laurence des Cars, 54, the current president of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, was appointed on Wednesday as the new president-director of the Louvre by French President...
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Mar 7, 2018 · Laurence des Cars is an anomaly in the male-dominated world of French museums. Since March 2017, she has been running the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, with its envied collection of French 19th-century...
