On June 8th, for the World Oceans Day, French Bassin d'Arcachon (Arcachon Bay, in English) officially became a marine nature park, the 6th in France after the Gulf of Lion, the Picard estuaries and the Opal sea. This 420-quare-kilometer marine aera comprises 127 km of coasts and a rich yet fragile ecosystem: dunes, saltmarshes, eelgrass […]
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- June 10, 2014
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At the end of May, a new art gallery called Jardins en Art (Gardens in Art) and dedicated to artists and literature related to gardens, has opened in the area of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For free, the gallery's inaugural exhibition presents the works of French sculptor-landscaper Jean-Marc de Pas, as well as some trompe-l'oeil made by Paul […]
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- June 09, 2014
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The 40 winners (2007-2014) of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, in partnership with the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, wonder about architecture in a period of great transitions, whether demographic, urban, ecological, industrial or energy-related. More than 200 projects of international architects are shown to the public, in order to reenchant […]
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- June 06, 2014
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We already told you about the music festival Les Siestes Electroniques last year. Created in Toulouse in 2002, this festival has first settled in Paris in 2011, right at the heart of the garden of the Quai Branly Museum. This free open-air event was originally focused on electro music, but is now proposing an eclectic […]
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- June 05, 2014
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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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Until now they were thrown away because supermarkets did not want to sell them, but all the fruit and vegetables that are ugly, twisted, weird-looking, damaged by the weather (rain and hail) or simply too big, will shortly take their revenge on sized vegtables. An operation called "Quoi ma gueule?" ("What's wrong with my face?") […]
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- June 03, 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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