Female artists of the first half of the XXth century played a major part in the development of the great modern artistic movements , and yet, nevertheless,  they were never recognized as such. The course of the exhibition wishes to reinscribe them in the process of art in transformation : from fauvism to abstraction, via […]

Theater Through a succession of short skits, the story covers a period stretching from the XVIIth to the XXth centuries. In Russia, in the 30´s, Boileau, Chapelle and La Fontaine invite themselves at Boulgakov’s who is utterly distraught because all his works have been removed from theaters and libraries. From this point, to the author […]

Thanks to a selection of around a hundred works - paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and artistic objects - , the exhibition invites the visitors to come and discover the heroines , either resumed or created by romanticism : heroines of the past, heroines from fictions, heroines from the stage. This journey in three phases offers the […]

Thanks to surprising immersive staging , plunge into the enchanting world of the Incas, heirs of ecological, technological and artistic disciplines of the ancient Peruvian civilizations. More than a traditional exhibition of remarkable archeological objects, the exhibition is an immersive experience in the universe of ancient Peru societies which built , during over 3000 years […]

« Over the course of a slow twilight »: such is Hofmannsthal’s stage direction for the representation of Elektra, Richard Strauss’ one-act tragedy, of unbelievable violence and darkness. Such is also the expression currently in use to describe the ultimate splendours of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the cosmopolitan Europe in the early years of the XXth […]

For this concert, the artists of the Academy have chosen classics of the American and Anglo-Saxon repertoire. Particularly the Hermit songs and Dover Beach by Samuel Barber, the old American songs by Copland and the Songs of travel by Vaughan-Williams.

Written in 2021 and staged the year after, The Interrogation was created together by Édouard Louis et Milo Rau on the theme of doubt and failure. « The heart of drama is the same as of  literature : it aims to show what is difficult to show. Drama should not be a safe place », says the first […]

After the retrospective exhibitions dedicated to the Swedish artists, Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn, and to the Golden Era of danish painting, the Petit Palais Museum continues its presentation of Nordic artists. The present monography, organized in cooperation with the Helsinki Ateneum Art Museum , is dedicated to Albert Edelfelt, one of the glories of […]

The ascetic figure is central in numerous expressions of Indian art, recurrent as often in ancient as well as contemporary India. It illustrates particularly the development of a discipline of mind and body - in order to be detached from the world - discipline named yoga. This exhibition dedicated to the representations of asceticism, brings […]

Created in 1992, La Bayadère tells the story of the impossible love between the dancer Nikiya and the noble warrior Solor promised to the terrible Gamzatti, story situated in a fantasmagorical vision of India with elephants, tigers and palanquins. Rudolf Noureev adapted Marius Petipa’s choreography - to a music written by Ludwig Minkus – thus […]