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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 27, 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
No MA('a)M! - Keith Haring's Political Line at MAM, Paris
(Paris.) Ever since the stunning success of its Basquiat show back in 2011, the MAM (short for MAMVP, the Municipal Modern Art Museum of...
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Apr 25, 2013
Splendid, isn't it? Marie Laurencin at Musée Marmottan
(Paris.) "Avec ta robe longue // tu ressemblais a une aquarelle de Marie Laurencin // et je me souviens, je me souviens très bien // de...
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Mar 26, 2013
Laure Albin Guillot and Adrian Paci, at Jeu de Paume
(Paris.) Public gallery Jeu de Paume focuses on photography and video art in a mix of big names and emerging talents. Currently it shows...
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Mar 26, 2013
A Cold Sun rising over Palais de Tokyo
(Paris.) Palais de Tokyo (Tokyo Palace) is France's best known "centre d'art", a public gallery with no collection of its own. After...
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Mar 14, 2013
Are You Experienced? Sous Influences at La Maison Rouge
(Paris.) "Welcome on board of flight 777 from Paris to Kathmandu, soon we will reach our cruising altitude of: very high." La Maison...
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Mar 5, 2013
From Paris with Love: Correspondances at Espace Louis Vuitton
(Paris.) For this new exhibition at Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, curator Erik Verhagen made a selection of artworks labelled as Mail...
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Feb 20, 2013
Sushi from Amsterdam: Van Gogh under the Influence
(Paris.) An art collector founding his own museum is nothing special these days, but an art historian doing the same seems less common....
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Feb 5, 2013
Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten, from Delacroix to Perrotin
(Paris.) An art dealer has reached the top level when you start to wonder if he still adapts his schedule to museum shows or if it might...
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Jan 26, 2013
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