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Waiting, Mountains, Music and a Whale. Museum Hamburger Bahnhof
(Berlin.) Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin’s most important museum for modern and contemporary art, dedicates a show to Black Mountain College....
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Jun 16, 2015
Rebuilding Wurstropolis – Berlinische Galerie Returns with Architecture
(Berlin.) Some say Berlin is great, “but maybe a bit too self-centred”, and Berlinische Galerie’s reopening won’t change the idea. A...
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Jun 5, 2015
Bananas for Berlin. Aping Culture at HKW
(Berlin.) I know exactly what you’re thinking: Germany, an institution called “House of the Cultures of the World” (Haus der Kulturen der...
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May 28, 2015
Text to Image, The Jeu de Paume with Florence Henri and Taryn Simon
(Paris.) Continuing to cover all of photography’s styles and eras, Jeu de Paume shows Florence Henri and Taryn Simon, two artists with...
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Mar 15, 2015
A Parisian Revolution: Le Plateau Goes Painting
(Paris.) Over the years, Le Plateau has earned a reputation for some of the most mind bustling, abstracty conceptualistiest exhibitions...
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Feb 26, 2015
Contemporary Chic. Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris
(Paris.) Last autumn, Bernard Arnault, billionaire owner of LVMH (Luis-Vuitton-Moët-Hennessy – and that’s only the brands they started...
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Feb 17, 2015
Pablo’s back in Paris – The Reopened Picasso Museum
(Paris.) The renovation of Parisian Musée Picasso, established in 1985 and owning the world’s largest collection of the artist’s œuvre,...
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Feb 9, 2015
King Koons on Pompidou’s Top Floor
(Paris.) Love it or loathe it, but Jeff Koons has well secured his place in art history. Koons started, or at least spearheaded something...
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Dec 16, 2014
Paris: A Threesome with Geishas, Sade and Kama Sutra. Or Say: Sex Sells
(Paris.) Long ago I gave up visiting the Musée d'Orsay, and decided to consider it permanently closed. This I did not for the same...
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Dec 3, 2014
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lies: Stan Douglas at the Fruitmarket Gallery
(Edinburgh.) Uir joorney tae th' UK teuk us faurder north than juist Lunnon, as we gaed oan tae Auld Reekie fur th' Fruitmarkit Gailerie...
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Nov 23, 2014
Tuttle’s Texts and Textiles Take Tate’s Turbine Hall, Whitechapel too
(London.) Lately focusing on Paris, ArtLife Magazine still leaves France from time to time, for example to see what’s going on in the UK....
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Nov 17, 2014
Marcel Readily Made Paintings, Even. Marcel Duchamp at Centre Pompidou
(Paris.) L.H.O.O.Q. Not to confuse with L.V.M.H., the name of Bernard Arnault’s little shop of luxury, that is indirectly honoured on...
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Nov 3, 2014
The Godzilla of Drawing: Hokusai at Grand Palais
(Paris.) “Evening, and a lowly servant sat beneath the Rashomon, waiting for the rain to end.” These are the first words from Ryunosuke...
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Oct 22, 2014
Big Girls: Niki de Saint Phalle at Grand Palais
(Paris.) It was a more than slightly embarrassing moment when, having lived for years in France and deeming myself no longer a stammering...
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Oct 8, 2014
You Really Don’t Look Your Age! Thirty Years of Cartier Foundation
(Paris.) If Fondation Cartier were a wearer of Cartier jewellery, this would be the time to stop counting years and celebrate her 29th...
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Jul 24, 2014
Put Them Up Against the Wall: Le Mur at La Maison Rouge
(Paris.) La Maison Rouge, as we all know, is the pastime of choice for supermarket heir Antoine de Galbert. His foundation either...
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Jul 21, 2014
Under the Skin: Tattoo Art and Tiki (no Taka) at Musée du quai Branly
(Paris.) Opened in 2006 as the pet project of President Chirac, Musée du Quai Branly tries hard to be the 21th Century version of an...
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Jul 15, 2014
Martial Arts at Centre Pompidou
(Paris.) Let’s start with our apologies: If you’ve clicked the title in hope to read about the free performances given at Centre Pompidou...
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Jul 7, 2014
The (W)Hole Art of Lucio Fontana at the MAMVP
Paris. In a big retrospective show, the MAMVP (Municipal Modern Art Museum of Paris) presents Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) as an artist who...
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May 26, 2014
White Space, No Cubes: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s “Strange City” at Monumenta Grand Palais
(Paris.) Earlier editions of Grand Palais’ Monumenta series have brought us excellent installations from the likes of Richard Serra...
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May 15, 2014
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