For 10 years, Kate MccGwire has been making unusual sculptures, covered in feathers from doves, pigeons, and crows, protected by cloches and old glass covers. Her work is inspired largely by stuffed birds, conserved under the cover of the glass that protect them against the dust or heavy-handedness of humans, that are in the natural […]
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- December 10, 2014
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The Institut du Monde Arabe welcomes the works of 80 contemporary Moroccan artists, designers, visual artists, fashion designers, and even architects, for the occasion of their contemporary Moroccan exhibition. Complimenting this retrospective, the museum have organised a series of events to polish off this artistic overview of the Morocco of today: traditional Moroccan music concerts […]
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- December 09, 2014
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The exhibition 7 years of reflection presents works of art acquired by the Musée d’Orsay, as well as those received throughout the past seven years. The general public will also be able to get their money’s worth with the enriching permanent collections of the museum. Amongst the pieces presented, you can find the paintings of […]
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- December 08, 2014
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The small zoo at the Jardin des Plantes celebrates its 220th anniversary. For the occasion, it is putting on an exhibition dedicated to its number of pensioners who have become famous, like Zarafa the giraffe who landed in 1827 with a popular jubilation. Not forgetting also Nénette the orangutan, today’s star from the zoo, or […]
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- December 05, 2014
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The exhibition Ars Architectonica by the artist Caroline Challan-Belval presents monumental sculptures which were created especially for the event. She proposes a contemporary interpretation of architecture, addressing devices of stability, imbalance and construction, by using the repertoire of forms provided from the collections of the Cité de l’Architecture. A retrospective that will without a doubt […]
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- December 04, 2014
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It’s within the framework of its Art and Eroticism season in the East, that the Pinacothèque in Paris welcomes a collection of erotic Japanese prints. Created in the Edwardian era, between 1603 and 1867, these artworks were commissioned by the upper class. Fruits of a number of fantasies, these works were especially collected in secret […]
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- December 03, 2014
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Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature has created an exhibition of the animal artist, society portraitist and illustrator Xavier de Poret (1897-1975). This remarkable observer of nature who spent part of his childhood in the family home near to Fontainebleau, was fascinated very early on by birds, and horses, his father was […]
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- December 02, 2014
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La Polka Gallery presents an exhibition curated by the German film director Wim Wenders, who has selected fifteen or so shots by his friend the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. These two artists recently collaborated over the long-showing “Le Sel de la terre” paying homage to the beauty of our planet through its fauna, flora and […]
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- December 01, 2014
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Le Musée de la Poupée devotes an exhibition to one of the objects that reminds us of our childhood: the snow globe. In a fairylike and kitsch style, this household trinket is always popular. This is retrospective in addition to showing a variety of these objects, offers a discovery of the history of the snow […]
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- November 28, 2014
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Just a stone’s throw away from the Eiffel Tower, La Verrière is first and formostly a truly great concept of well-being. Divided into three spaces, you can come here to relax around a good vegetarian meal, to benefit from some care between the hands of an experienced osteopath, or even to admire the art works […]
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- November 27, 2014
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