Everyone –or at least almost everyone– has heard of Terry Richardson. This photographer, famous for shooting celebrities with everlasting youthful features and wearing lumberjack shirts with oversized glasses, presents a free exhibition at the Parisian Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. With shots of beautiful women in seductive postures or Grand Canyon landscapes, he highlights the contradictions a […]
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- March 10, 2015
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The Palais Galliera is dedicating its new exhibition to Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946) and her extraordinary path in the very enclosed world of Parisian haute-couture. Mademoiselle Jeanne began her career as a milliner in the French capital in 1885, before opening her own shop. She quickly became a major figure of the fashion world, and her […]
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- March 09, 2015
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While her creations are sold in the shops of great international museums (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern in London), the “everyday art objects” by designer Maria Holmer Dahlgren are presented at the Institut Suédois (Swedish Institute) in a free exhibition. This artist, who believes that everyday life is full of art, designs […]
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- March 06, 2015
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On the occasion of International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on March 8th every year, the galerie Hegoa is hosting the work of 6 female artists – photographers Sarah Caron, Sabine Weiss, Marie Dorigny, Isabel Muñoz, Marianne Rosenstiehl and plastic artist Gabriella Zalapi. This free exhibition entitled “Regards de femmes” (“Women’s viewpoints”) intends to spotlight […]
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- March 05, 2015
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The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (European House of Photography) is hosting 170 pictures taken by French photographer Bernard Plossu, who shares his passion for Italy in this exhibition entitled “Bernard Plossu’s Italy”. Born in 1945 in South Vietnam, the artist discovered Italy in the ‘70s. There, he recaptured his childhood memories and his mother’s […]
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- March 04, 2015
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For this exhibition entitled “Déboutonner la mode” (“Unbutton fashion”), the Arts Décoratifs museum unveils a collection of 3,700 buttons dating from the 18th to 20th centuries. They are presented along with over a hundred female and male garments and accessories by emblematic couturiers such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Dior, Paul Poiret and Elsa Schiaparelli. […]
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- March 03, 2015
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Until May 18th 2015, the Centre Pompidou is holding an exhibition dedicated to Haiti-born French painter Hervé Télémaque. For the occasion, the museum gathered 74 works (paintings, collages, drawings, objects and assemblages) made by the artist between 1950 and today. These creations attest of the various artistic currents which influenced Hervé Télémaque. Indeed, at the […]
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- March 02, 2015
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Each year, the Grandes Serres du Jardin des Plantes (Great Greenhouses in the Jardin des Plantes) host an exhibition of rare orchids. This 3rd edition is entitled “A Thousand and One Orchids from Asia” and will be centred on the varieties of orchids from Asia. A symbol of purity, refinement, fertility and erotism, the orchid […]
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- February 27, 2015
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its creation, the Musée en Herbe is welcoming one of the most famous comics characters: Tintin. Until August 31st of 2015, Tintin, Snowy and other heroes from the series created by Hergé will be staying in Paris, thanks to the many pieces lent by the Musée Hergé of Louvain-la-Neuve […]
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- February 26, 2015
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The Bibliothèque de la Maison Paris Nature of the Parc Floral is hosting a free exhibition on amphibians until March 28th 2015. This exhibition is composed of photographs of frogs, toads and tritons taken by Françoise Serre Collet, expert in amphibians and reptiles at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History). The […]
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- February 25, 2015
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