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Ni Hao Smiley Face. Yue Minjun at the Cartier Foundation
Paris. Has your company already been sold to Chinese investors? No? But your boss is fluent in Mandarin and your Chinese subsidiary well...
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Dec 28, 2012


Viva El Loco: Some thoughts on Salvador Dali at Centre Pompidou
Paris - Dali, "Tout Paris" is talking about Dali these days. The Centre Pompidou is virtually closed for any other activity as the huge...
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Dec 13, 2012
Turkey for Vuitton
(Paris.) The last resistance to LVMH Foundation's private museum in the Bois de Boulogne has been squashed by court decision this summer....
Christian Hain
Dec 7, 2012


Don't mess with Big G. An update on the Parisian gallery scene
Paris- You can easily imagine Larry Gagosian's face when Thaddäeus Ropac announced his plans for a new exhibition space in the outskirts...
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Nov 20, 2012


Mr Ed Has Something More to Say: Edward Hopper at Grand Palais, Paris
Paris - I did not know Hopper. I mean, of course I knew "Nighthawks", but I thought that's all. And even in my perception of this...
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Nov 6, 2012


Man is Evil. Adel Abdessemed's Religious Pessimism at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Paris - Paris has a brand-new tourist attraction, people of all ages and origins can be observed posing for photographs with a giant...
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Nov 5, 2012
Roman Ondak, Bertille Bak: Two exhibitions at MAMVP Paris
(Paris.) Do you know what a "Flash Mob" is? The phenomenon has briefly been in fashion in the '00s (gosh, so long ago), in a sense it was...
Christian Hain
Nov 3, 2012


So many questions: Bertrand Lavier, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Paris - Centre Pompidou starts the winter season with an exhibition of Bertrand Lavier: "Since 1969". Untypical for a retrospective, a...
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Oct 5, 2012


French Cuisine with Michel Blazy at Le Plateau, Paris
(Paris) To celebrate its tenth birthday, Le Plateau, public gallery of the regional art council FRAC, invites us to Michel Blazy's "Grand...
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Oct 1, 2012


More of Paris: Cindy Sherman, Celèste Boursier-Mougenot, Sturtevant and the double Gabriel Orozco
Paris - Here comes the second part of our overview on the Parisian gallery scene this autumn. A well anticipated event is Gabriel...
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Sep 27, 2012


Paris: La Rentrée, featuring Sophie Calle, Clément Cogitore, Fritz Panzer and many more...
Paris - Every year in early September Parisians celebrate "La Rentreé", the "relaunch" of all activities, art related or not. During...
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Sep 26, 2012


Wael Shawky's Crusade to Berlin at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin - "KW" is a beautiful name for a public art gallery, isn't it? Very German at least. I remember a techno club with the same name...
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Sep 21, 2012


Berlin Calling: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum with Cy Twombly, Morton Bartlett, Architecture and More
Berlin - Malicious gossip has it, that after-wall Berlin is the biggest Disneyland resort ever, showing no distinct style of its own but...
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Sep 19, 2012


A visit to Hamburg Part 2 : New York Photography 1890-1950 from Stieglitz to Man Ray
Hamburg - Earlier I introduced you to Antony Gormley's Horizon Field Installation. A much less experimental exhibition can be found at...
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Aug 23, 2012


A Visit to Hamburg: Antony Gormley's Horizon Field Installation
Hamburg - Hamburg is known for the second biggest European harbour after Rotterdam and the second largest European red light district...
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Aug 22, 2012


Size Matters: Extra Large Exhibition at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, with Masterpieces from the Pompidou
Monaco - I know Artlife Magazine readers are precisely the kind of people for a spontaneous weekend trip to Monte Carlo. Just to relax,...
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Aug 11, 2012


One Day in Kassel: a Personal Review of Documenta (13)
Kassel - It was a sunny day at the end of July when I arrived at train station "Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe". Slightly distracted by two American...
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Aug 6, 2012


Portuguese Artist Joana Vasconcelos Makes Versailles her Playground
Paris - How to rip off tourists certainly is an art in itself, and the French are its undisputed masters. If by accident you visit...
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Jul 23, 2012


Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Turbulences
(Paris.) Sorbonne professor David Rosenberg is one of Paris' leading freelance curators, for "Turbulence" at Espace Louis Vuitton on the...
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Jul 19, 2012


Maison Européenne de la Photographie with Alice Springs, Anderson&Low, Charlotte Rampling, ...
Paris - The MEP ("European House of Photography") disposes over a famous collection, but as photographs are very sensible works they...
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Jul 17, 2012
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