This exhibition entitled "Impression, soleil levant" (“Impression, Sunrise”) both celebrates the 80th anniversary of the musée Marmottan Monet – in which it is held – and the 140th anniversary of the first exhibition of Claude Monet’s eponymous painting, which gave its name to the famous Impressionism movement. This exhibition invites visitors to discover the story […]
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- September 16, 2014
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On September 19th 2014, you will be able to challenge your creativity during the Parking Day. This international green event focuses on the following question: "Could we find something else than cars on parking lots?" The reflexion on the subject gave an incredible result based on a collaboration between citizens, activists and artists. With micro-gardens, playground areas, […]
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- September 16, 2014
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With this exhibition entitled “Poetic Structure”, the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine is paying a tribute to the work of one of the greatest architects of the Glorious Thirty: Bernard Zehrfuss (1911-1996).This architect of the Rationalism current designed – among other things – the Charléty Stadium in Paris, the Haut-du-Lièvre neighbourhood in Nancy and […]
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- September 15, 2014
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The Galerie Marian Goodman is hosting David Goldblatt’s series of photographs entitled “Structures”, which is dedicated to South Africa. Since the ‘80s, the photographer roams this country full of history, taking pictures of buildings from the colonial era, either private or public, religious or not. This exhibition of white and black pictures taken in the […]
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- September 12, 2014
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The former Ornano train station, located on the Petite Ceinture railway, has been entirely rearranged to create an original and environmental-friendly place: La Recyclerie. Here, old and new are side by side and the watchword is ecology. The Recyclerie applies the "Old is Gold" saying, which explains its second-hand furniture. Remote from traffic, the place […]
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- September 11, 2014
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The Galerie Daniel Templon devotes its first autumn exhibition to a great master of contemporary sculpture who passed away one year ago: Sir Anthony Caro. A former student of Henry Moore, he was ennobled by the Queen in 1987. Through his works, he reinvented sculpture, from the 1960s abstract period to the exploration of space. Exhibition: "Anthony […]
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- September 11, 2014
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For its first autumn exhibition, the galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presents forty works, especially made for the event by Laurent Grasso. "Soleil Double" (Double Sun) reveals one of the major themes of the artist, the duality of reality. The creations explore our perception of time, images and power. For the occasion, Laurent Grasso used paradoxical messages displayed […]
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- September 10, 2014
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American photographer William Eggleston was a color pionneer. He was also the first one to consider daily life as a source of artworks. The Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson presents a hundred of clichés taken by the artist at a turning-point of his career: when he definitely quit black and white for color photography. The retrospective […]
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- September 09, 2014
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Vedettes de Paris is going green with the Batostar. Contrary to regular tourist boats, the electro-solar river shuttle is silent and odorless. 55 people can embark on the boat, which works with 50 square meters of solar pannels on its canopy. This systems allows at least 9 hours of autonomy, and avoids using 300 liters […]
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- September 09, 2014
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Ten years after his first retrospective, René Burri, the Swiss photographer and member of the Magnum agency since 1959, is back at the Maison européenne de la photographie (European house of photography) in Paris. Through his clichés, he captured major events of the 20th century, for instance with his mythical black and white portraits of […]
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- September 08, 2014
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