Category: This Week

If the walls could talk: ‘Brassaï – Graffiti’ at Centre Pompidou, review

Nov 29, 2016

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in Art & Culture, Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

Centre Pompidou’s latest offering is a fascinating little exhibition of photographs from Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï’s celebrated Graffiti series.
[Review] Benjamin Katz and his artists at Museum of Modern Art

Nov 23, 2016

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in Art & Culture, Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

A rather obscure personality has come to occupy Hall 14 bis of the Museum of Modern Art, Paris with his black and white photographs: it’s Benjamin Katz. And what a beautiful surprise this exhibition has turned out to be! Born in Anvers in 1939, Katz grew up in Belgium. In 1956, he moved to Berlin and since then, he…
[Review] Embracing insolence: Oscar Wilde exhibition at Petit Palais

Nov 18, 2016

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in Art & Culture, Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

Oscar Wilde: Insolence Incarnate, which is on view at the Petit Palais, Paris until January 15, 2017, is France’s first tribute to the flamboyant Irish playwright since his death in a rundown hotel in Paris. This wistful show includes a selection of more than 200 exhibits – among them, manuscripts, first editions, correspondence, paintings, drawings, photographs…
Highlights of Paris Photo 2016

Nov 10, 2016

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in Art & Culture, Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

The 20th edition of Paris Photo opens today, November 10, at the Grand Palais, Paris and brings together 153 galleries, 30 art book publishers and an exciting offering of photographs under one glass roof.
Billions of blue blistering barnacles! Hergé comes to Paris

Oct 12, 2016

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in Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

The adventures of the most famous Belgian reporter and the first man on the moon, Tintin began in the cold winter of January 1929. Almost a hundred years since his first journey to the land of Soviets, this loveable plump-cheeked boy continues to be one of the most popular comic characters ever created. The adventures…
EVA & ADELE at Museum of Modern Art

Oct 4, 2016

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in Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

Heads shaved, identically dressed, heavily made up, this ‘living art’ of a couple is the subject of an interesting new exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
[Exhibition spotlight] Fantin-Latour Retrospective at Musée du Luxembourg

Sep 21, 2016

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in Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

With 60 paintings and 30 works on paper by Henri Fantin-Latour, Musée du Luxembourg presents a fantastic retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre.
59 Rivoli: Democratising Art Creation

Jul 29, 2016

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in Museums, This Week

Tucked between glitzy international stores, 59 Rue Rivoli, a former artist squat is now a legitimate space for artists to create and display their works.
Beauty, Intricacy and Desire: Women in Japanese Woodblock Prints

Jul 20, 2016

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in Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

With its new exhibition, Miroir du désir, Musée Guimet takes us on a unique visual exploration of female body and its place in rare Japanese woodblock prints.
Celebrating the Beat Generation at Centre Pompidou

Jul 20, 2016

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in Exhibitions in Paris, This Week

With its new exhibition, Centre Pompidou retraces the pivotal Beat movement from New York to San Francisco to Paris.