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Jaume Plensa celebrates the fundamental similarities that link people across languages and cultures, by focusing on the body, he bears witness to a collective, shared and resilient beauty. Exhibition details
Famous for her work on the Cosa nostra, the Sicilian mafia that reigned during the Years of Lead, the colossal oeuvre of Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022) - over 500,000 photographs - is nonetheless highly diverse.
The contemporary artist Guillaume Bresson, is one of the leading lights of French figurative painting.
Aan het begin van zijn carrière was Ensor het slachtoffer van onbegrip van zijn naasten en van aanvallen van critici, en de satire, zowel verbaal als picturaal, werd zijn verdedigingswapen. Uiteindelijk zou satire een van de elementen worden die het veelzijdige karakter van zijn werk uitmaken.
Since its foundation in the 1830s, the line of silversmiths, created by Charles Christofle and continued by Henri Bouilhet, has transformed the lines and decorations of silver to adapt them to everyday life.
Vincent Van Gogh's famous ‘cosmic poem’, The Starry Night (1888), puts into perspective the sources from which the artist drew to create it, as well as the influence this work had on other artists.Exhibition details
This volume brings together the contributions presented at the international symposium ‘Sculpting in the Renaissance. Un art pour (é)mouvoir’ organised by the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the Castello Sforzesco in Milan to accompany the exhibition ’Le Corps et l'Âme. From Donatello to Michelangelo. Italian sculptures of the Renaissance’.
The catalogue offers an insight into the world of Cuban outsider art, more than forty years after the seminal exhibition that arose from Jean Dubuffet's desire to include in the Collection de l'Art Brut the works of Cuban artists assembled by his friend Samuel Feijóo, who curated the 1983 exhibition.
Nat Mayer Shapiro (1919-2005) explores worlds of line and color, new places and spaces: a geometry of chance and impulse.
Since 2006, photography has played a major role in the Pinault Collection. From Gustave Le Gray to Cindy Sherman, from Irving Penn to Wolfgang Tillmans, via Raymond Depardon and Lee Miller, successive exhibitions have built up a body of reference work in the field.
Combining videos, installations and performances, often woven with technical and narrative explorations, Martine Syms examines representations of “blackness” and its relationship with the vernacular, feminist thought and radical traditions.
Se c’è una parte dell’opera di Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) che non è quasi più necessario presentare, ce n’è un’altra meno conosciuta: quella degli anni prima e subito dopo la guerra, durante i quali Doisneau fu dapprima un dipendente della Renault prima di diventare indipendente e rispondere agli ordini di riviste politicamente impegnate.
Who were the American soldiers who gave their lives on the beaches of D-Day on June 6, 1944? What was their imagination, their history, their culture?
The Centre Pompidou is dedicating a monograph to Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), an emblematic and daring artist, one of the most important of her generation. Exhibition details
Going beyond primitive superstitions and the many expressions of identity, this collection offers the first artistic and aesthetic anthology regarding representations of the hand and of the esoteric marks that past civilizations have left on these representations.
Explore the vibrant history and profound cultural resonance of feminist art from Korea and the diaspora.
Arab Design Now presents a survey of contemporary design from the Levant, the Gulf and North Africa, featuring works across disciplines, from architectural installations and material research to contemporary crafts, furniture, graphic and object design.
The catalogue retraces the artistic career of one of the great names in contemporary ceramics, Gilbert Portanier, an emblematic artist of the town of Vallauris, who died in 2023. Exhibition details
The volume documents the profound and transformative impact of Alexander Calder, one of the most revolutionary artists of the 20th century.
The undisputed king of toys, the teddy bear is invited to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to tell its incredible story.
This catalogue explores the famous Tang dynasty (618-907), a flourishing period in China's long history.
Collectors played an essential yet misunderstood role in the success of Impressionism. Though not immune to economic and social woes, they were often engaged in the defence of this artistic movement that they had helped come to life, establish or make known, each in their own time.
160 years ago, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Textiles opened its doors in Lyon, inaugurating the concept of the decorative arts museum in France. In 1891, it became the Musée Historique des Tissus, and in 1925, a second museum dedicated to the decorative arts was added.
For the past 24 years, the Marcel-Duchamp Prize has been highlighting the work of contemporary French artists or artists living in France, in the plastic and visual arts.
Jackson Pollock and his gestural paintings are icons of abstract expressionism. His groundbreaking works evolved from a period of experimentation during which Pollock drew upon influences from Native American art, Mexican muralists, and the European avant-garde-most notably from Picasso. Exhibition details
Although Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) were contemporaries, they never crossed paths, yet there are many essential similarities between them.
Malala Andrialavidrazana (born in 1971 in Madagascar) is a visual artist trained in architecture whose work is based on notions of barriers and interactions in intercultural contexts.
This publication is intended to introduce the reader to the obligatory and indispensable process that precedes and accompanies the creation of artistic ceilings, almost like a manual for anyone who would like to learn more about this complex universe.
Germaine Richier, the first woman to have an exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1956), is a remarkable figure in the world of modern sculpture, whose works are present in the world’s most prestigious museums, including the Centre Pompidou, MoMA and the Tate Modern.
Heritage in Focus is a collaboration between World Monuments Fund and Magnum Foundation to work with local photographers in capturing historic places and their stewards. Photographers were invited to document 11 of the sites from the 2022 World Monuments Watch.
This stunning catalogue of 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen showcases highlights from this outstanding but still relatively little-known part of the collection.
This book was conceived to shed light on the significant visual contribution made to photography by Martine Franck, an influential woman photographer active during the final third of the 20th-century.
The Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection presents a major exhibition devoted to Arte Povera. Between legacies and influences, the exhibition comprises more than 250 historic and contemporary works, as well as pieces that have taken their inspiration from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s.
A major new study of Black figurative art from Africa and the African diaspora, covering 100 years from the early 20th century to now.
The Courtauld Gallery in London, presents for the first time in 120 years an extraordinary group of Claude Monet’s Impressionist paintings of London and realizes Monet’s unfulfilled ambition of showing this famous series.
Based on family archives, this biography looks back at Gustave Caillebotte's journey to place his work in his family, social and economic environment, that of the Parisian bourgeoisie under the Third Empire.
The presentation is chronologically linked to Wesselmann’s works and themes, and uses the artist’s work as a starting point to develop a more general presentation of Pop Art.
Alberto Giacometti's desire, or need, to combine painting and sculpture appeared repeatedly and in different forms throughout his career. See exhibition details
This book, following the Centre Pompidou exhibition, puts the spotlights on the new generation of chinese artists and explores the artworks of 21 artists from the comtemporary chinese scene. Exhibition details
Soaking up the light and history of Montparnasse in the Roaring Twenties, Vincent Perez captures its essence and brings to life some of its iconic figures, such as Kiki de Montparnasse. Under his lens, the models become living tableaux, offering moments of grace where photography and painting come together.
An unusual and playful visual conversation between two rich bodies of photographic work, Déjà View combines photographs by the whimsical and cult Martin Parr with images from The Anonymous Project, a collection of colour slides taken by amateurs from all over the world.
German american dealer-collector Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007) built up an exceptional collection of 20th century masters. The catalogue explores the relationship of this unusual gallery owner with his artists and his art market network in post-war Paris.
In this interview, the sculptor, visual artist and writer looks back on her career, her formative years with Josef Albers and Louis Kahn, and her meeting with members of the Black Panthers in 1966, which marked a turning point in her career, giving her works a more committed dimension.
A complete monograph enriched by a catalogue of the work of the artist Pierre Sabatier (1925-2003), a sculptor out of the ordinary, an artist on the fringes of any commercial circuit and little known to the general public.
A graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, François Delaroziere is artistic director of the company La Machine. He has always studied moving objects in the public space and their emotional impact.