Romanian sculptor Brâncuşi has become French

Sculptures by the world-famous Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi, who died in Paris in 1957, can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among other places: "But unfortunately many museums present Brâncuşi as a 'French artist who was born in Romania'" Rodica Culcer complains in the daily Evenimentul Zilei. … "We can revolt and even write to the curators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but it won't achieve anything. It would be better to ask ourselves why Brâncuşi was forced to leave the country long before the communist regime took over to be able to become a great artist. And it would be better if we understood why neither back then nor even today the intellectual, cultural and artistic climate in Romania allows great talent to realise its full potential. … I know why Brâncuşi left Romania when he was young. And it probably wouldn't bother him to be immortalised as a French artist."

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