ARTINFO - Last year was not a quiet one for Paris museums — with a still-unsolved theft of five paintings from the city's Museum of Modern Art, a debate over the same institution giving an X-rating to a Larry Clark retrospective, and the refusal of Avdei Ter-Oganyan to show his work in the Louvre's Russian exhibition despite Russia's withdrawal of its demands that the artist be censored.
But the first brouhaha of 2011 has already produced results. Growing public discontent over the restrictive hours of city-run museums led the French newspaper Le Figaro to compare Paris-controlled museums to Soviet institutions earlier this month. Now, the city has announced a new plan for streamlining museum bureaucracy, though it will not go into effect until 2012.
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