From June 10 to June 21, 2013, the Grand Palais’ nave turns into the biggest Drive-In ever made in the capital and takes the name of Cinema Paradiso. In association with MK2 and Fiat, movie lovers will be able to watch again classics (from Pulp Fiction to Grease), coiled in Fiat 500, or perched on a hill specially made for the occasion. The nave will thus be able to welcome up to 1,000 persons, on the rhythm of two projections a day. For 12 days, other surprises will be offered to the public: pinball, disco roller (a roller skating rink with a free entrance), American dinner, concept-store, as well as an exhibition dedicated to the evolution of video games, “The Golden Age of Video Game”. So, put on your skates, choose dresses with flounces and other leather jackets, and you will be ready to live with Fonzie and the Beach Boys!

Drive-In Grand Palais – Cinema Paradiso, from June 10 to June 21, 2013.
Open from 11 am to late at night.
Entrance to the event: 10€ (Under 12 year-old: 5€), free animations.
Entrance to the event and to the Drive-In, presales: 19€.
Pass “Moet & Chandon Tasting”, including a Moet & Chandon flute and a parking space: 39€.

Nef du Grand Palais
Entrée Winston Churchill, avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
France

Program and reservation on Fnac’s website.

For its 7^th edition, the Nature Festival focuses on bugs. Invisible or underrated, they nonetheless take part in nature’s renewal. They truly are the architects or gardeners of the flora. Thus, without earthworms and other soil small inhabitants, soil would remain sterile and compact. They take part in pollination, manure’s manufacture, wood recycling or deterioration of dead materials. During 5 days, free events, organized in the country in Paris and all over France, will help you discover the stakes of bugs’ preservation. The goal is to re-discover nature and to be amazed by it with your family. Will you be part of it?

7^th edition of Nature Festival, from May 22nd to May 26^th, 2013.

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You must admit it, when you are shopping, you are often tempted by food’s packaging even though you don’t need it! We buy with the eyes, because on the shelves, packaging is the only one charming us and making us buy. The Museum of Arts and Crafts dedicates an exhibition to packaging, “These packages that change our lives”, well deserved.

An improvement of our daily lives
Packaging revolutionized households’ comfort with its creation and especially that of women of the 50s. Solidity, easy opening or lightness, it improved daily lives. But, for several years now, the question of its recycling is being an issue. Packaging pollutes and it is necessary to do something to transform it. Compaction, selective sorting, everything is done so that households can participate in environmental protection while keeping their comfort. Scientists are even allegedly working on edible packaging for the future! An exhibition you have to go see without waiting anymore, it might change your life as a consumer!

Balls stocking – Claye – Souilly 2007
Part of the ‘Food packages, innovation is in the box!’
Space from the Materials permanent collection – ©Didier Raux

Exhibition “These packages that change our lives”, from February 19^th to June 9^th, 2013.
Open Tuesday to Sunday included, from 10a.m to 6p.m.
Late night opening on Thursdays until 9:30p.m.
Full rate: 6,50€ / Reduced rate: 4,50€.

Museum of Arts and Crafts
60, rue Reaumur
75003 Paris
France
T.: +33 (0)1 53 01 82 00
Subway: Arts et Metiers, Reaumur-Sebastopol

Corot used to call him the “king of the skies” when Monet considered him his master and believed he was one of the precursors of impressionism. Thus, it was essential than a Parisian institution like the Jacquemart-Andre Museum shared with the public the paintings, pastels and watercolors of Eugene Boudin (1824 – 1898) in an outstanding retrospective.

Venice, slave’s dock in the evening, Customs and Salute
1895, oil on canvas, 46 x 65 cm
Quebec, Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of the Estate Maurice Duplessis. Restauration made by Quebec’s conservation Center – ©
Photographer, Patrick Altman

An exceptional retrospective
It is the first time since 1899 that such an event dedicated to Boudin is organized in Paris. The American public was quickly appreciative of his works, and museums of the North of the United States like Washington’s National Gallery or Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts still have today numerous unique works of the artist. This pioneer artist is among the first French painters to have gone out of his studio to draw landscapes, going from his native Normandy or Venice without forgetting Brittany, Bordeaux or South of France. Being able to seize the unique atmosphere of the places he visited throughout his life, he always gave importance to the elements and brought an atmospheric dimension to his works. Represent in an innovative way light’s reflections, clouds and water was undeniably his strong suit.

Beach Scene, Trouville
1869, oil on canvas, 29 x 47cm
Madrid, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection at el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
© Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza en depósito en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Exhibition “Eugene Boudin”, from march 22^nd to july 22^nd, 2013.
Open everyday from 10a.m to 6p.m and to 8:30p.m on Monday and Saturday.
Full rate: 17€ / Reduced Rate: 15,5€ (with audioguide).

Jacquemart Andre Museum
158, boulevard Haussmann
75008 Paris
France
T.: +33 (0)1 43 62 11 59
Subway: Miromesnil (L.9 and L.13)

To go with the publication of the reasoned catalog of Jules Dalou’s sculptures (1838 – 1902), an exhibition will take place at Paris’ Petit Palais. The event focuses notably on the monumental productive ability of the artist, as well as on his relationship with the capital’s public space, thanks to the extremely rich Dalou’s funds. It is the first monograph exhibition dedicated to the sculptor.

Credit: Jules Dalou, the Triumph of the Republic – Eric Emo – Petit Palais – Roger-Viollet.

A path that didn’t run smooth
Having lived in poverty during his childhood in Paris, Dalou started a career that will be quickly interrupted by the 1870 War and Paris Commune in which he participated. He then went into exile across the Channel and became frankly successful with the British. It is thanks to the communards’ amnesty that he moved back to France about ten years later. Then, he gave the City of Paris an aesthetically revolutionary work: The Triumph of The Republic, which you can still admire today at Nation’s Square. It was the first of numerous public monuments created by the artist.

A new exhibition
Between sculptures, paintings, drawings and pictures, the exhibition of the Petit Palais unveils about 400 works, the majority being shown publically for the first time. Coming for the most part from the collection from the multi-talented artist’s studio, this panel of works will enable you to retrace its evolution over the years. You will thus discover the different stages of the making of a historical monument by this mythical sculptor from the 19^th century. You have to go visit this!

 Credit: Jules Dalou, bacchanalia – Eric Emo – Petit Palais – Roger-Viollet.

Exhibition “Dalou (1838 – 1902) The sculptor of the Republic”, from april 18^th to july 13^th, 2013.
Open Monday to Sunday from 10a.m to 6p.m, and on Thursday to 8p.m.
Full rate: 8€/Reduced Rate: 6€.

Petit Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
France
T.: +33 (0)1 53 43 40 00
Subway: Champs Elysées Clémenceau (L.1 or L.3)

To go out for a drink in Paris, follow the advices of the Gavarni Hotel and go for one of these beautiful cocktail bars.

1/ The Mini Palais, 8^th district
It is in the elegant surroundings of the bar and restaurant of the Mini Palais, down the Champs Elysees, that you will enjoy the best cocktail of this beginning of the year. Thanks to the barman Chef Alexandre Chialva, your taste buds will fizz with surprise while tasting the fresh cocktails, perfectly mixed and original prepared by the young man. We recommend you the creation cocktails, like the Shiva’s Call with tandoori spices, or the Wineberry, with Saint-Emilion. To be tried with friends or with your loved one.

Open everyday from 10a.m to 2a.m.
Creation cocktail: 15€

Grand Palais – 3, avenue Winston Churchill – 75008 Paris – France
T.: +33 (0)1 42 56 42 42
resa@minipalais.com

2/ The Alcazar’s Mezzanine, 6^th district
Let’s go to Saint Germain des Prés, in the center of Paris, to discover our second favorite: the Alcazar’s Mezzanine. With its glass roof, its lounge and stylish atmosphere, this cocktail bar is famous for its reception, its resident DJs, of whom music compilations are not to be presented anymore. Cocktails stay traditional but they are perfectly mixed. The Mojito is our favorite one!

Cocktails: 13€
Open 7d/7, Monday to Friday from 7p.m to 1a.m, until 2a.m on Saturday and Sunday. Musical nights from Wednesday to Saturday.

62, rue Mazarine – 75006 Paris – France – T.: +33 (0)1 53 10 19 99
contact@alcazar.fr

3/ Sir Winston, 16^th district
Here, give way to colonial-inspired decoration, between English and Indian tradition. Exotic furniture, carpets, smoking room, the atmosphere purports to be cozy and intimist. This bar is known for its nice choice of whiskies (about fifty references) and for its cocktails that you sip in a world lounge and jazzy ambiance.

Open everyday from 9a.m to 4a.m.
Cocktails: 10€

5, rue de presbourg – 7506 Paris – France – T.: +33 (0)1 40 67 17 37
sir-winston@wanadoo.fr

For this 29^th edition, the European Heritage Days invite you to discover the hidden heritage in Paris (with FREE admission), but also all through France. Behind doors, in basements or in right front of us, the testimonies of our history are in the palm of our hands! In the 16^th district, near the Gavarni Hotel, several museums and monuments of which we’ve talked to you about these last months, will be part of this original event! From the Musée Clemenceau to the Musée National de la Marine, from the Maison de Balzac to Pavillion de l´eau , they all will open their doors the 15 and 16 of September 2012.

The program of the 16^th Parisian district here. 

Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, 29^th édition,  September 15-16^th  2012.

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On the occasion of the magazine ELLE Décoration´s 25 years, the Modern Museum of Art in Paris offers a retrospective until the end of September called “Génération Design”, dedicated to design. There, you can find objects and furniture of 30 international young designers, that illustrate the current international creation. Uncluttered, functional, flexible and eco-responsible, these objects and furniture reflect the daily worries of the citizens all over the world. A beautiful exhibition that supports young talent!

Génération Design, 25 years of ELLE Décoration, from September 11^th to the 30^th at the MAM.
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Free admission.

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
11, avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
France
T.: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00

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For this new edition, the Paris Design Week is once again honoring art, design and innovation. Thanks to 7 themed routes that will lead you through the different Parisian districts, you’ll (re) discover the capital under an unseen and artsy light. This beautiful walk in the 16^th district will take you to Bose, rue de Passy, the first Centre d´expérience of the brand, then to the Pâtisserie des Rêves, a gourmet place that we love at the Gavarni Hotel. For the occasion, Philippe Conticini´s boutique is launching an unseen waffle kiosk, designed by Marc Brétillot. When design meets gourmet, we say yeiii!

Paris Design Week – 2012 Edition – From September 10-16

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If you like sushi but you don’t dare to eat it of fear of participating in the disappearance of endangered species, you are going to love the Côté Sushi restaurants in Paris. Partners of Fish2Fork, a program engaged in the protection of aquatic species on their way to extinction, the chain doesn’t offer for example red tuna but serves Albacore tuna instead. Another example, the eel served is not European (very endangered), but from Unagi. If you order takeout know that Côté Sushi will deliver by bike! Finally, the brand only uses communication aids with the Imprim´Vert label and favors electronic advertising instead of paper. We are telling you, you are going to love fish!

Open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. (except Sundays at noon)

Côté Sushi
23, avenue Marceau
75016 Paris
France
T.: +33 (0)1 44 43 51 13

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