{"id":195031,"date":"2025-09-02T20:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195031\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:47:10","slug":"musee-dorsay-president-dies-of-heart-failure-at-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195031\/","title":{"rendered":"Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay President Dies of Heart Failure at 58"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSylvain Amic<\/a>, an art historian who took the helm of Paris\u2019s Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay last year, died on Sunday in southern France at 58. Rima Abdul Malak, the former French culture minister, told the New York Times that Amic died of heart failure.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis death has been treated with shock, both within France and beyond. He assumed his post<\/a> as the leader of one of Paris\u2019s most visited museums just 16 months ago.<\/p>\n

\n\tLaurence des Cars, the current president and director of the Louvre Museum and the former head of the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, praised Amic as a \u201cpromoter of an imaginative and open culture\u201d in a statement posted to social media. Emmanuel Macron, the Prime Minister of France, wrote on X that Amic \u201cknew the universal emancipatory power of our culture, between heritage and creation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBorn in Dakar, Senegal, in 1967 to French parents, Amic would go on to lead a school in Banjul, Gambia, before becoming a curator in the late \u201990s. Between 2000 and 2011, he worked at the Mus\u00e9e Fabre, a museum in Montpellier, France, that is known for its collection of 19th- and 20th-century French art. Then he went on to work in Rouen, where he brought together a group of 11 museums that he named the Museums of Rouen.<\/p>\n

\n\tStarting in 2022, he began working as an adviser to Rima Abdul Malak, who served as the French culture minister until 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmic died as the Orsay was preparing to open a research center. He was also leading plans for a permanent collection rehang and had recently spearheaded a traveling show of masterworks from the museum\u2019s holdings.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen that show visited Shanghai\u2019s Pudong Art Museum this summer, Amic said it was emblematic of his goal to keep the past alive\u2014and to show that it need not remain stale or stodgy.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year, he told Souquee<\/a>, \u201cEven though people in the past made great efforts to preserve art, we still need to ask ourselves: Is this concept still relevant today? Therefore, the way we work is to make the museum as \u2018contemporary\u2019 as possible\u2014by responding to today\u2019s problems, showing how the collection, art history and the history of that era are still important resources for us to understand the world and draw inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sylvain Amic, an art historian who took the helm of Paris\u2019s Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay last year, died on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,108636,9455,108637,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-195031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-musu00e9e-dorsay","13":"tag-obituary","14":"tag-sylvain-amic","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115136669254766819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}