During more than 30 years, English photographer Michael Kenna immortalized Paris’ bridges, quays and monuments in his black and white pictures. Empty of all human presence, these Parisian places are magnified by the contrast between shadow and light, and thus endowed with a timeless character. The musée Carnavalet has purchased many of the artist’s works […]
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- January 16, 2015
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The musée Cognacq-Jay has re-opened its doors to the public, after two months being closed, with an exhibition entitled “Enlightenment – carte blanche for Christian Lacroix”. The French fashion designer has re-imagined the atmosphere of the museum by mixing contemporary works, the museum’s collections of objects from the 18th century and theatre costumes, exhibited till […]
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- January 15, 2015
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The musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (Museum of Jewish Art and History) is hosting about 220 of Roman Vishniac’s photographs. Nearly a hundred of them are exhibited for the first time, and retrace the artist’s steps from his beginnings in Berlin until the Post-war years in the United States. Through his pictures, he illustrates […]
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- January 14, 2015
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fondation Piet de Boer in Amsterdam, the Fondation Custodia presents an exhibition entitled “Goltzius to Van Gogh”. Twenty paintings by Hendrick Goltzius, Joachim Wtewael and Cornelis Ketel are put side to side with about a hundred drawings by Vincent van Gogh, Jacob Hoefnagel or Jacques de Gheyn – […]
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- January 13, 2015
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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 […]
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- January 12, 2015
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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 […]
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- January 09, 2015
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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 […]
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- January 08, 2015
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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 […]
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- January 07, 2015
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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 […]
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- January 06, 2015
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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 […]
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- January 05, 2015
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