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The Louvre once tried to hang a painting upside down “for dialogue.” Which is curator-speak for “we messed up.”

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No Louvre painting is documented as being hung upside down for dialogue. A real similar case is Matisse's Le Bateau, which hung upside down at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1961 before anyone noticed.

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