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Zen 2.0: Hiroshi Sugimoto at Fondation Pierre Berge/YSL
(Paris.) Among contemporary Japanese artists, Hiroshi Sugimoto is the antithesis to Takashi Murakami. His work is more serious, more...
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Dec 19, 2013
Shine Bright Like a Diamond: A Cartier Christmas at Grand Palais
(Paris.) To start with a crucial information: Being a man, you don’t run a risk of ruining yourself when you bring your wife or...
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Dec 9, 2013
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Fiesta Mexicana in Paris
(Paris.) Orangerie Museum honors art's second most famous moustache and her Dieguito with a small but nice show - Frida Kahlo / Diego...
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Dec 4, 2013
Felix Vallotton, A Man of Many Styles
(Paris.) Grand Palais' second autumn exhibition presents Felix Vallotton, who is best known for his participation in the Nabi group from...
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Oct 24, 2013
The Other One: Georges Braque, Grand Palais Paris
(Paris.) Batman and Robin. Tarzan and Cheetah. Simon and Garfunkel. Cheney and Bush. Picasso and Braque? Much too easily, Georges Braque...
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Oct 16, 2013
Chaotically brilliant: Pierre Huyghe at Centre Pompidou
(Paris.) A typical retrospective show traces the career of an artist from start to finish - or to the present time if he's still active....
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Oct 9, 2013
Ryan flies to Paris. Ryan Gander at Le Plateau
(Paris.) For the past two years, Le Plateau's director Xavier Franceschi and artists-come-curators Elodie Royer/Yoann Gourmel have been...
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Sep 27, 2013
I Picasso, You Tourist. Summer in Barcelona
(Barcelona.) Visiting Barcelona in summer sounds like a good idea: Enjoy a pulsating city's cultural highlights, and profit from the...
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Jul 31, 2013
Out of Paris: The MAC/VAL with Ange Leccia and Dominique Blais
(Paris.) Given the current state of international trademark legislation, it may be surprising that the MacVal has not yet been sued by a...
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Jul 22, 2013
From Lichtenstein to Paris, at Centre Pompidou
(Paris.) At one point in Centre Pompidou's exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein, the visitor reads "Return this drawing to Lichtenstein" on a...
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Jul 18, 2013
Karl Lagerfeld under a Seine Bridge, for The Glory of Water and Fendi
(Paris.) Sometimes, I tell people how much I enjoy to "go shopping with Karl". This is always a big success, gaining me much respect in...
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Jul 9, 2013
The Art Tsunami: Nouvelles Vagues at Palais de Tokyo and beyond
(Paris.) It's summer, again. Parisians leave for holidays, non-Parisians arrive for holidays. The Tamil street vendors have changed their...
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Jul 4, 2013
Loris Greaud, Pompidou and Louvre, Looks like he made it
(Paris.) Question: When you are a 34-year-old French artist, what would be the best thing that could happen to you? Answer: To be booked...
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Jun 26, 2013
Nature and Stuff: Giuseppe Penone at Chateau de Versailles
(Versailles.) I like Penone. Honestly. For the past forty years, the Italian artist has created Arte Povera's least pauper bronzes,...
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Jun 20, 2013
Colour photography. Lorna Simpson and Ahlam Shibli at Jeu de Paume
(Paris.) Times are changing. Hardly any stereotype proves true anymore, and still we hold on to outer appearance, to an empty shell. For...
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Jun 8, 2013
Simon Hantaï's long March to Abstraction
(Paris.) Some days ago, on my way to the Centre Pompidou, I ran into a female friend who reacted with a somehow disconcerted smile when I...
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May 31, 2013
On the playground: Dynamo at Grand Palais, Paris (a satire)
(Paris.) Leaving the Dynamo show at Grand Palais, I felt exhausted and overwhelmed with impressions. Sitting down on a bench, I wondered...
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May 22, 2013
Chag Attack - Marc Chagall at Musée de Luxembourg
(Paris.) The Musée de Luxembourg, situated next to the French Senate at Jardin de Luxembourg park was France's first museum of...
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May 22, 2013
Larger than Life: Ron Mueck at Fondation Cartier
(Paris.) If your son is traumatized by a too early lecture of Gulliver's Travels - don't worry, it might be just the perfect start to a...
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May 8, 2013
Lost in the Louvre: De l'Allemagne and the Quest for Pistoletto
(Paris.) If Paris is Disneyland, the Louvre is the ultimate ride, a mix of Space Mountain and Indy. And Mona Lisa is Mickey. Statistics...
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May 1, 2013
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