The Cité de l’architecture takes an interest in the city of Chandigarh, new capital of the Penjab, thought by Le Corbusier (1887-1965) after India’s proclamation of independence. Fifty years after the architect’s death, the museum presents the everyday life of this city, but especially how Indians have lived the Corbusean modernity, in assimilating it or […]
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- January 29, 2016
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The Aquarium Tropical de la Porte Dorée in Paris hosts a photos exhibition about the Lengguru mountain. Located in West Papua, on the New-Guinea Island in Indonesia, this mountain is characterised by numerous series of mountainous reliefs which are separated by deep valleys. This location difficult to access for man constitutes an important reserve of […]
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- January 25, 2016
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The Grand Palais dedicates an important retrospective to French photographer Lucien Clergue (1934-2014). This self-taught, friend of Pablo Picasso, founded in 1968 the Festival International de photographie des rencontres d’Arles (International Photography Festival of the Rencontres d’Arles) helped by Michel Tournier. Organised each year in July on site, it gathers the greatest photographers of the […]
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- January 22, 2016
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Paris hides lot of treasures. The “Eau non potable, eau d’avenir” (“Non-drinking water, water of the future”) retrospective at the Pavillon de l’Eau takes an interest in the sustainable city of tomorrow, but above all, in the non-drinking water network of the city of Paris. How is it supplied? Who had the idea? To where […]
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- January 18, 2016
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After Jeanne Lanvin, The Palais Galliera takes an interest in another great woman in Fashion: Countess Greffulhe. Born Elisabeth de Caraman-Chimay (1860-1952), the most beautiful woman of Paris was known both for her elegance and her mind. She moved on to posterity thanks to Marcel Proust in his famous book: A la recherche du temps […]
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- January 15, 2016
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Until January 25th 2016, the art of the Florentine portrait of the XVI century is on display at the musée Jacquemart-André, nearby the avenue des Champs-Elysées and the Green Hotels Paris, the Eiffel Trocadéro and the Gavarni. It is the occasion for the public to admire works from the Italian art of the Renaissance and […]
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- January 11, 2016
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This exhibition scheduled until February 29th 2016 at the Cité de l’architecture invites us to discover the work method of Italian architect Renzo Piano and his team. Born on 14 September 1937 in a builder family, the creative is early steeped in this universe. With “La méthode Piano” (“The Piano method”), the builder’s whole creative […]
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- January 08, 2016
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In response to its current exhibition “Kuniyoshi, le démon de l’estampe”, the Petit Palais displays around forty ceramics and engravings in these permanent collections. They reveal the influence of the culinary art in Japan, on the occasion of the second half of the XIX century. The public will admire two plates of the famous Service Rousseau […]
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- January 04, 2016
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Until January 11th 2016, the musée Guimet hosts the new Mainichi Shodokai foundation’s works of Japanese contemporary calligraphy. “The Empire of ink” invites visitors to admire the works of European artists who have been affected by this art, modelled on Belgian painter Henri Michaux (1899-1984) and on Canadian-British painter Brion Gysin (1916-1986). Their paintings are […]
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- January 01, 2016
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The Cité de l’Architecture located nearby the Green Hotels Paris takes interest in the Atelier d’urbanisme et d’architecture, the AUA (the Atelier in the Architecture and Urbanism Workshop), in its new exhibition. Renowned for its multidisciplinary approach, this workshop was the first to gather architects, urbanists, decorators, engineers, but also sociologists. All this talents met […]
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- December 28, 2015
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