Through its new exhibition “From Nô to Mata Hari, 2000 years of Asian theatre” which opens today, the Guimet Museum presents this art in its every shape and form. Thousand-year-old art form, the theatre in Asia varies with countries and their specific culture. It therefore assumes different aspects, sometimes danced, other times sung, it can […]
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- April 15, 2015
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For the very first time in France, the musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris) is exhibiting the work of the Turin-born artist Carol Rama. Although her name is rarely mentioned in Art history, her work ranges through all the great artistic movements of the 20th […]
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- April 06, 2015
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With 13,000 runners in Paris in 21014, The Color Run™ by Sephora is about to kick-off its second edition. Organized for the first time in Phoenix, USA, in January 2012, the happiest and most colorful race in the planet allows its participants to combine sport, leisure and conviviality in the heart of Paris, Nancy or […]
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- April 02, 2015
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As part of the call for proposals “Du vert près de chez moi” – literally “a bit of greenery near my home”– which took place from July 15 to September 25, 2014, Parisians have been encouraged by the Mairie de Paris to report all areas prone to shelter some greenery within the capital. They have […]
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- March 26, 2015
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The Eiffel Tower requisitioned For its new occurrence, the Ecotrail de Paris® Ile-de-France will take place from March 20th to March 22nd 2015 and offer various sports trials ranging from speed to endurance tests. The Verticale de la Tour Eiffel, a brand new race, challenges 61 contestants to climb the 1665 steps of this Parisian […]
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- March 12, 2015
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The Palais de Tokyo is holding a brand new exhibition entitled "Le bord des mondes" (“At the edge of the worlds”), which questions the limits of artistic creation. In this regard, this retrospective gathered together artists and creators from outside the common Art world such as Theo Jansen, Carlos Espinosa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Rose-Lynn Fisher and […]
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- February 19, 2015
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Starting from tomorrow, the Palais de Tokyo is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to Vassilakis Takis, a Greek sculptor based in France since the ‘50s. This contemporary plastic artist is a major figure in post-war sculpture and has always been fascinated by magnetic fields. Throughout his career (he will celebrate his 90th birthday this year), […]
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- February 17, 2015
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The musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris has recently purchased five major works of French painter Georges Noël, who was born in Béziers in 1924 and died in Paris in 2010. Inspired by avant-garde artists such as Brassaï, Fontana and Dubuffet, the painter’s work was marked by the Art Informel. Georges Noël’s creations […]
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- February 05, 2015
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With this exhibition entitled “Un train pour le Yunnan” (“A train to Yunnan”), the musée Guimet depicts the journey of two Frenchmen through Asia. Auguste François, consul of France in China, and Georges-Auguste Marbotte, a travelling accountant, joined in the 19th century to build a railway in Yunnan. Discover this gigantic construction site, its evolution […]
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- February 04, 2015
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2050 Paris Smart City is a project designed by Vincent Callebaut Architectures; it is aimed at building futuristic and vegetated high-rise buildings in the French capital in order to reduce 75% of the greenhouse gas emissions of the city within 2050. Still in development, these researches include eight buildings that would recycle their own energy. […]
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- January 13, 2015
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