Malraux's Chagall Ceiling at Palais Garnier Faces Legal Challenge from Lenepveu Descendant

In 1962, André Malraux, the French culture minister, deemed the ceiling at Palais Garnier uninteresting during a ballet performance and commissioned Marc Chagall to create a new one. Chagall produced 24 canvases at no cost, which were placed over the original ceiling by Jules-Eugène Lenepveu, a listed monument since 1923 and unseen for the past 60 years. Now, Lenepveu's descendant, Arnaud Carayon, has engaged a lawyer to propose alternating the two ceilings every decade after the opera house's renovation, set for 2027-32. Meanwhile, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam reached a settlement with the Dutch government, allowing renovations to begin in 2028 while remaining partially open. The Boston Center for the Arts is providing rehearsal space and support for two theater companies at a time; nearly 20 applied last round, with the Asian-American company CHUANG, established in 2018, renewing for a second term. Andrew Potter, 43, is leaving opera at his vocal peak due to the $12,000 needed to bring his family along during six weeks of rehearsals. At the Busan film festival, Netflix's Asia-Pacific production director, Sung Q Lee, revealed the company has incorporated AI in 300 titles. Director Kang Yun-sung, whose AI-assisted film Run to the West grossed around $100,000, anticipates a 40 percent reduction in costs for his next project, The Gulf of Aden.