Group Against Modern Art at Versailles Now Fighting to Stop Takashi Murakami Exhibition

It seems like we’ve been referencing the debate over the late-2008/early-2009 battle to remove Jeff Koons‘ exhibit at Versailles a lot lately. While it only made tangential sense at the time, now it appears that there was something in the air and we were right all along (isn’t that always the way?). Like when Koons’ show was there at the palace of Louis XIV, a group who sees modern art exhibitions as a damaging intrusion into the history of the place is