The Paris expo Porte de Versailles hosts a reproduction of the most famous cave in prehistory: the Lascaux Cave. After being featured all around the world (Chicago, Montreal, Bordeaux, Brussels etc.), this retrospective settles in the French capital for the entire summer. Visitors and their family are invited to discover this authentic treasure of Paleolithic […]
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Key element in the French national heritage, contemporary stained glasses are featured at the Parisian Cité de l'Architecture, located two steps away from the Green Hotels Paris (the Eiffel Trocadéro and the Gavarni). This retrospective focuses on the creations of Chagall, Soulages, Tremlett, Rouault, Raysse or Benzaken, who created the stained glasses of some of the most prestigious architectural […]
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For its newest exhibition dedicated to artists' mannequins from the 18th century to the present day, the Parisian Musée Bourdelle presents over 150 works. Photographs by Man Ray and Denise Bellon, plates from the Encyclopédie, paintings by Courbet, Burne-Jones or Gainsborough, patents... this rich retrospective gives the opportunity to understand the story of these mannequins in art. […]
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The Parisian galerie Lelong hosts the works of the "cheekiest" British painters: David Hockney. With this free exhibition called "The Arrival of Spring", the artist revisits the genre of landscaping (fields, sunsets, forests etc.) with the help of the latest technologies available, and notably the iPad. These limited edition digital prints freeze the evolution of vegetation as well as that […]
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From May 24th to June 7th 2015, tennis lovers will also be able to experience Roland-Garros at the foot of the Eiffel Tower since, for the first time this year, the “Roland-Garros in the City” event is relocating, leaving the square of the Parisian Hôtel de Ville to settle in the Champ de Mars! This […]
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The Maison de Balzac is located a few feet away from the Green Hotels Paris, in the Passy neighborhood of the French capital. It is in this historical site, where the famous French writer used to write, that an exhibition dedicated to drawings of writings, art initiated by the artist himself, takes place. We discover the inspiration aroused by Balzac's works […]
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The Parisian Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature has invited two artists for its exhibition entitled "Les chasses nouvelles" : Jean-Baptiste Oudry et Julien Salaud (The new hunts: Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Julien Salaud). The idea of this retrospective is for 18th-century hunt-themed tapestries and contemporary works dialog with each other. Plastics-oriented artist Julien Salaud has put together seventeen works specifically for the museum, […]
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With its "What is photography" exhibition, the Parisian Centre Pompidou invites us to discover the history of photography through the works of famous photographers of contemporary and modern art. Along 80 photographs, visitors will be able to grasp the many aspects of this rich medium, as well as the various techniques and numerous universes of the artists featured. The […]
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The Fondation Custodia is aiming to promote the art of drawing. Its new exhibition dedicated to Italian Renaissance masters, Raphael, Titian, Correggio, as well as Michelangelo, features over 90 drawings made by these great artists. All the exposed works come from Frankfurt's Städel Museum collection as well as the donation of former banker and famous art collector, Johann Friedrich Städel. "Raphael, Titian, […]
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Through its "Paper architectures. Drawings from Piranesi to Mallet-Stevens" exhibition, the museum Nissim de Camondo focuses on architectural drawings. Via the displayed drawings, the museum tries to understand the creation process, the architect's work, how he manages to solve structural problems, how he shapes an archaeological setting by reinterpreting it, or even how he takes on the position of […]
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