Alexia Fabre to lead Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts

Alexia Fabre, the longtime chef curator of MAC VAL, a major contemporary art museum in the outskirts of Paris, has been appointed director of École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She becomes the first woman to take the helm of the 400-year-old institution, succeeding Jean de Loisy whose tenure came to an end in January. While the school’s recent appointments have been embroiled in controversy, with critics pointing to the lack of diversity and generational renewal in its leadership, Fabre’s nomination has been widely celebrated in the press, with an article in the French newspaper Le Monde exclaiming ‘Finally a woman at the head of Paris’s Beaux-Arts!

https://artreview.com/finally-a-woman-alexia-fabre-to-lead-paris-ecole-des-beaux-arts/

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