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The Louvre is not known for contemporary art, but after Laurence des Cars took over as the head of the museum a few years ago, she brought in Grau, who had previously worked for her at the Musée d’Orsay. “What we wanted to do is for contemporary to be not the opposite of heritage, but actually be a take on heritage,” Grau said. “Laurence says, ‘The Louvre is not a place for contemporary art, it’s a contemporary place for art.’ ” Grau sees himself as an emissary. “When I converse with artists, I come not as someone from the present,” he said, “but as someone whose principal activity is in history.”