If you are a TV addict, you are going to love the new exhibition of the Musée des Arts et Métiers! Organized in partnership with the INA (French National Audiovisual Institute), this show recounts 80 years of French television history, from the famous cathode-ray tube to nowadays high-definition screens. The event also invites you to […]
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- June 05, 2014
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The new exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo deals with artists's reflections of the world's physical, moral and political factors. Ever since Goya, modern artists have always paid attention to what we may call "the state of reality", that is every utopia and revolt suffered by men. By depicting the landscape of our anxieties, they […]
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- June 04, 2014
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Girl is the title of the second studio album of American singer Pharrell Williams, whose name is on everyone's lips these days. It is also the name of the exhibition in which Pharrell Williams is taking part with Parisian gallery owner Emmanuel Perrotin. Around forty works made by 37 artists, among whom 17 women, have […]
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- June 03, 2014
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Thanks to the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Parisians can discover the work of Emmet Gowin, an American photographer little known in France. He began his career with very simple photographs inspired by daily-life scenes: adults in the street, children playing outside, and car drivers. In the late 1960s, Emmet Gowin' divides his work into two different […]
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- June 02, 2014
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Twenty years after the catastrophy, The Shoah Memorial in Paris devotes an exhibition to the Rwandan genocide, committed between April 7th and mid-July 1994 and during which around a million persons were murdered. A rerence in knowledge of the Holocaust as well as of other 20th century genocides, the Memorial proposes this retrospective to commemorate […]
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This exhibition is presented in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of World War I, in partnership with the French Ministry of Defence. It recounts the days before the war was declared, from July 23rd to August 4th 1914, as well as the first consequences of the war. Exhibition: "Summer 1914, the Last Days of the […]
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Organized by the AWI in partnership with King Abdulaziz's National Library, this exhibition recounts the history of the "hajj", a pilgrimage to Mecca which is one of the five pillars of Islam. Artists (such as Orientalist painters), journalists, travellers and pilgrims express their views on this practice, whether it be mystique, religious or individual. Exhibition: […]
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The Cinémathèque française (French film library) pays tribute to its founder, Henri Langlois (1914-1977), with an unprecedented retrospective on the man who made a connection between cinema and arts. It was also thanks to Henri Langlois that cinema moved from a status of entertainment to that of seventh art. He left behind a rich collection […]
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This exhibition of Jean-Pierre Bonfort's photographs is based on the recount of Louis Barthas, a cooper from the Aude department who went to the front in 1914 and stayed there for four years. Composed of 19 notebooks, the texts was discovered and published in 1978 by historian Rémy Cazals. Little by little, the photographer followed […]
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This exhibition is based on the Atlas Mnémosyne by early 20th century art historian Aby Warburg. Conceived by art critic Georges Didi-Huberman and artist Arno Gisinger, this event shows how images from the past can survive until present time, through painting, cinema, and arts in general. Exhibition: "New Ghosts Stories", from February 14th to September […]
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