The Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (City of Paris Modern Art Museum) is hosting Quebecker artist David Altmejd’s works, which are at the same time mystical, fascinating and frightening. Right next to his gigantic masterpiece The Flux and The Puddle, the sculptor exhibits some of his recent creations, as well as older […]
Continue Reading
- January 12, 2015
-
No Comments
The Eléphant Paname gallery is exhibiting the works of 26 contemporary French, English, Belgian and German photographers in this retrospective on the theme of memory. For the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, they put their approach to the battlefield in parallel with recollections of the historical conflict’s last survivors, who […]
Continue Reading
- January 09, 2015
-
No Comments
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier (1921-2004) was a French photojournalist. The Crédit Municipal de Paris is exhibiting his works in a retrospective exhibition created by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris to illustrate the history of French post-war photography as well as the changes that occurred in society at this time. Jean-Philippe Charbonnier used to […]
Continue Reading
- January 08, 2015
-
No Comments
Alix Cléo Roubaud (1952-1983) had a very active photographical production, through which she infused philosophy and literature. Taken too early, her work was still unknown to the general public until the Bnf (the French National Library) decided to organise this exhibition of more than 200 of her photographs, along with some previously unpublished texts and […]
Continue Reading
- January 07, 2015
-
No Comments
A musician, producer, singer-songwriter, Julian Lennon is none other than John Lennon’s son. Come and discover his talents as a photographer through his exhibition about Charlène Wittstock at the Galerie ArtCube in Paris. He followed his friend, the future Princess Charlène of Monaco, and realised a series of portraits right before the ceremony of her […]
Continue Reading
- January 06, 2015
-
No Comments
The Petit Palais is hosting seven major paintings from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes for three months in its permanent collections. The Paris museum is pursuing its program of exchange with large regional museums with this exhibition entitled “From Ingres to Polke”. Closed for renovations until the end of 2016, the museum of Nantes […]
Continue Reading
- January 05, 2015
-
No Comments
Through this free exhibition, the Shoah Memorial pays tribute to the Jews of France who joined French military forces during both world wars. Among them, tens of thousands foreign Jews were enrolled as volunteers in the Foreign Legion, as well as in the French Resistance, the Allied armies, or in the Free French Movement. Some […]
Continue Reading
- January 02, 2015
-
No Comments
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was a painter who loved the comfort of his home. The only journey he undertook was to Morocco in 1832, and appears as a major turning point in his life. He brought back over a hundred Moroccan objects from this trip – fabrics, ceramics, music instruments, safes, weapons, hides and pieces of […]
Continue Reading
- January 01, 2015
-
No Comments
To all those who can’t just throw away their old books, here’s a nice and eco-friendly way to turn those old pages into gold! Thanks to the RecycLivre association, whose small electric truck roams the streets of the capital, it is now possible to get rid of old books and contribute to environmental preservation at […]
Continue Reading
- January 01, 2015
-
No Comments
The Hotel de Ville has gathered together 150 photographs from Magnum Photos (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Martin Parr) for a free exhibition entitled Paris Magnum. Depicting the everyday life of famous and anonymous Parisians from 1930 to nowadays, it retraces the evolution of the capital’s architecture, including the Louvre Pyramid, the Grande Arche of […]
Continue Reading
- December 31, 2014
-
No Comments