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The Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris presents MEDUSA, an exhibition catalogue taking a contemporary and unprecedented look at jewellery, unveiling a number of taboos.
Today the oeuvre of French architect and designer Jean Prouvé is considered essential to the history of twentieth century design.
Exhibition Cesar at the Centre Pompidou from December 13, 2017 to March 26, 2018.
The protagonists of Inspired Clay are Earth, Clay and Man. The film and book describe the role of clay in creation myths and in artistic creations from the origins of man to the present day.
This catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies the tricentennial of the journey of Peter the Great in France in 1717 and the meeting between a venerable kingdom and a nascent empire: a seminal event for cultural relations between Russia and France. > See exhibition details
Drawing his inspiration from the proximity of daily life – from friends, acquaintances and the strangers he passes in the street – François Bard creates portraits that are majestic and transcendent.
Fondation Louis Vuitton presents, in its Frank Gehry-designed building, an exceptional exhibition devoted to the unrivaled collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring more than 200 renowned masterpieces and less familiar, but highly significant works.
The Versailles estate houses the finest Napoleonic collection in the world, comprised of masterpieces—paintings, sculptures, and furniture—by Nineteenth- Century masters, such as David, Gros, Gérard, Lefèvre, Girodet, Lejeune, Canova, and Jacob-Desmalter… > Book preview
The first large-scale exhibition devoted to pascALEjandro, Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s collaborative creation.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Gauguin the alchimist Grand Palais, Galeries nationales (October 11, 2017 - January 22, 2018). > See exhibition details
In the years 1945–1963, Swiss artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) set about documenting his superb collection of Art Brut, or Outsider Art.
The history of cloth made through the beating of tree bark began some eight millennia ago in South-East Asia, the cradle of the Oceanian peoples. Over the course of generations and successive migrations eastward that led to the peopling of the Pacific islands, human ingenuity enabled the creation of a type of cloth, whose most refined examples are...
Li Xin naît en 1973 sur les berges du Fleuve Jaune. Cet immense et puissant fleuve a influencé toute son enfance, par sa présence visuelle mais aussi ses odeurs et les murmures constants de son courant. Ce « peintre de l’eau » vit entre France et Chine depuis 2002. De ces « confluences franco-chinoises », Li Xin est peut-être l’artiste le plus révélateur....
Les figurines des Kulango is designed to introduce various miniature works created by the Kulango in northeastern Côte d’Ivoire, who were formerly vassals of the two kingdoms that inhabited the country (Bouna and Gyaman). Their extraordinarily varied art, which can be both intriguing and disconcerting, is relatively unknown.
International Festival of Photojournalism Visa pour l’Image 2017 - Perpignan. Bilingual edition.
Bringing together more than 180 works from our own holdings and others on loan, including a large number from a collector closely associated with the Musée Jenisch, this exhibition examines a remarkable chapter in the history of printmaking.
L’exposition Tobiasse, les lumières de l’espoir présente l'univers foisonnant de Théo Tobiasse à travers ses thèmes favoris : la famille, les femmes, les voyages, l’exil, l’érotisme ou encore les musiciens.
À la fois sombre et émerveillé, le monde de Stéphane Thidet (né en 1974) offre des visions distordues de la réalité. Ses oeuvres mettent en scène sa vision de la réalité imprégnée de fiction et de poésie.
Born in 1985 in Paris, France, Prune Nourry is a multi-disciplinary artist based at the Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. She explores bioethics through sculpture as well as video, photography, and performance. > Book preview
The late Brazilian artist Geraldo de Barros is regarded as a pioneer of Modernist photography and an inspirational figure for a new generation of contemporary Brazilian practitioners.
This exhibition is organised in the context of Picasso Méditerranée, an international cultural event taking place from 2017 to 2019.
48th issue of the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France (July3 - September 24, 2017).
Throughout his life, he has dressed a loyal cosmopolitan clientele including celebrities such as Jacqueline Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn, his muse and friend. The pieces on show demonstrate an acute sense of elegance and exquisite cultural refinement.
Fifty works by Jean-Michel Othoniel, from his personal collection, are exhibited at the Carré sainte-Anne in Montpellier.
Obsidiana offers an opportunity to present a new series of works by Othoniel, entitled invisibility Faces. > Book preview
Francis Bacon vs Bruce Nauman: two generations of artists whose works were developed in different artistic contexts and are often spoken of in opposition to one another.
Jean Cocteau welcomes his contemporary Raoul Dufy to the Musée Jean Cocteau - Collection Séverin Wunderman.
Jean Delville, the figurehead of symbolism worldwide, remains an artist whose works is well known, but whose life and even name are less familiar.
This album traces in color the Centre Pompidou retrospective of the artist. Short texts give the pictures a necessary contextualisation to embrace the vastness of David Hockney's work. > See exhibition details on ArtActu.com
The exhibition focuses on the important moments of Christian Dior’s emblematic life, as well as on his most famous olfactive creations.
Jaume Plensa is a Catalan sculptor born in Barcelona in 1955. His work is exhibited around the world (Rio de Janeiro, New York, Zaragoza, Shanghai, Bordeaux, Venice), especially his sculptures in public space.
This book presents 80 works from the late 1970s to the present, drawn from international and private collections that accompanies an exhibition at the Ixelles Museum in Brussels, Belgium (Spring 2017) and at the modern art museum of Le Havre, France (May 27 - Aug. 20, 2017).
The Magic Art of Afi Nayo. "These are works meant for eyes that have no fear of what they see. For our eyes have become accustomed to hiding behind ideas, preferring to appear intelligent than to be disconcerted, captivated, or even distressed."
Published on the occasion of the URSULUMES exhibition held in Quimperlé (May to October 2017), this monographic book about Yann Kersalé offers a comprehensive look at the artist and his wide range of creations: Expedition, Landscape, Architecture, Object. > See exhibition details
From Impressionism to western and eastern post-war abstraction, the masterpieces from the collection at the Bridgestone Museum are the result of the love of art of three generations of the Ishibashi industrial dynasty.
Famous historic Indian diamonds, spectacular precious objects and legendary pieces of jewellery are brought together to represent the evolution of taste and technique in India’s jewelled arts over five centuries.
The exhibition En toute modestie /Archipel Di Rosa (In all modesty / Di Rosa Archipelago) presented at the Musée International des Arts Modestes (International Museum of Modest Arts) is, in a way, the continuation and counterpoint of Plus jamais seul - Hervé Di Rosa et les arts modestes organized a few months earlier by La Maison Rouge in Paris.
The sculpture of Apollo served by the Nymphs is composed of seven figures. It was created between 1667 and 1675 by the sculptors François Girardon and Thomas Regnaudin.
L'artiste ORLAN sort du cadre. Son nom s'écrit chaque lettre en capitales, car elle ne veut rentrer ni dans les rangs, ni dans la ligne. Son engagement, sa liberté, son féminisme font partie intégrante de son oeuvre plastique où elle défend des positions innovantes et subversives. > See exhibition details
Exhibition Album Walker Evans, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (27 april - 14 august 2017).
This wonderful collection of amateur snapshots assembled by Sylvie Meunier and Patrick Tourneboeuf delightfully revisits one of the iconic motifs of the American Dream : the Automobile, that pure object of desire.
This book features the architectural adventure betweenTadao Ando and the château La Coste. > Book preview
From the beginning of the history of cinema to the present day, from Lubitsch to Jeunet, Montmartre has always been a favoured setting for films by French and foreign directors alike. Montmartre, with its charm and history, embodies the very image of Paris, and has become an actor in its own right in films. > Book preview
After the Second World War, Claude Mercier, as a sculptor of metal, took an active part in the life of his art. As a supporter of abstraction, he developed a vocabulary of pure changing shapes as volumes of space to play with light. The artist defines himself as a manufacturer, as well as a steelworker. > Book preview
Le musée de l’Abbaye à Saint Claude est l’un des principaux musées en France qui valorisent l’art figuratif des artistes gravitant autour de l’Ecole de Paris et de la seconde Ecole de Paris.