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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Edward Hopper, Grand Palais, 10th october 2012 - 28th january 2013.
The paintings of the artists of the Central Desert, the Kimberley and Arnhem's Land maintain an unbroken link with millenary Aboriginal culture, combining an immense accumulation of tribal knowledge with personal artistic research and reflection.
Depuis plusieurs années, Annette Messager crayonne, écrit un mot, reporte des photographies ou dessine sur de petites rondelles de papier qu'elle fait ensuite passer dans une machine à badges.
2011 Marcel Duchamp Prize winner Mircea Cantor is on show at the Centre Pompidou, Espace 315, Paris (October 3, 2012 to January 7, 2013).
Combining rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-nineteenth-century art world and were effectively Britain's first modern art movement.
Paintings, Writings, Remembrances by Arne Glimcher, the first and only complete career retrospective of the visionary painter, Agnes Martin.
The Department of Islamic Art is the newest department in the Musée du Louvre. Created in 2003, its refurbishment has been underway since 2008. In September 2012 it has reopened in a completely new, restyled setting, which provides its collections with a space befitting their prominence within the museum.
Émile Savitry, peintre puis photographe, a côtoyé tout ce que le Paris des années trente abritait d’artistes, d’écrivains, d’intellectuels du monde entier. Ce catalogue monographique est le premier consacré à ce photographe humaniste. Son oeuvre méconnue et foisonnante mérite aujourd’hui d’être mise en lumière.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Edward Hopper, Grand Palais, 10th october 2012 - 28th january 2013.
The ceramist and art historian, Kristin McKirdy is the subject of a retrospective exhibition, which is an overview of 20 years of her research and work drawn from the national collections of ceramics and production workshops.
An exhibition devoted to the career of Alix Aymé (French, 1894–1989), an influential participant in the promotion of Paris-born modernism in the era between the world wars.
Exhibition album "Bertrand Lavier, since 1969" at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (September 26, 2012 - January 7, 2013).
The exhibition shows the historic Paris of silent film, the sophisticated Paris of romantic comedies, the apogee of French Cancan with its crazy and expensive films, and the period when Hollywood shot films in Paris, through film excerpts, photographs, set models, costumes and posters...
The Musée de Montmartre presents, from September 13 to June 2, 2013, an unique exhibition about one of the most mythical places in Montmartre, the Chat Noir cabaret.
Le numéro est entièrement consacré à Rembrandt et à son entourage immédiat.
Born in Mali in 1960, Cheick Diallo resuscitates humble materials found in his homeland – scrap metal, plastic, packaging paper, cloth, wood and earth – to create functional and decorative objects and furniture of an uncompromisingly contemporary character. Exhibition details
Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, first held in 1989, will be holding the 24th Festival this year, twenty seven exhibitions will be presented.
Between December 2010 and April 2011 Anselm Kiefer, the first visual artist to be appointed to the Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France in Paris, gave eight lectures followed by seminars. These classes are collected in the present volume, together with Kiefer's widely attended inaugural lecture.
Provocative, sometimes shocking, Newton's work tried to capture the beauty, eroticism, humour - and sometimes violence - that he sensed in the social interaction within the familiar worlds of fashion, luxury, money and power.
The presence of works of art, the bond created with famous people from varied intellectual, political and artistic backgrounds in the capital and also the emotional impact of the historical scenes are what make this history museum so original and contribute to the unique atmosphere which it conveys of the City of Light down the centuries.
This collection presents a state of international research in the history of construction, like a palace organized through 240 independently constituted elements.
Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists. Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, the Americas
The Field of Cloth of Gold is a unique moment in European history. Although it did not alter the course of the relations between the two kingdoms, this brief episode of Anglo-French reconciliation was the occasion for an extraordinary display of luxury and riches, whose unequalled profusion enduringly captured popular imagination.
Reflexions Masterclass, founded in 2002 by Giorgia Fiorio, is an international research laboratory dedicated to visual representation in general and to contemporary photography in particular.
The Louvre invites Wim Delvoye to intervene at various locations within the museum and nearby: in the galleries of the Department of Decorative Arts, under the Pyramid, and in the Tuileries gardens.
Yvon Lambert confirmed he would donate his collection to the State for permanent conservation in Avignon. To celebrate the event, the museum will present the masterpieces of the Lambert Collection throughout the summer, conserved in Avignon, but rarely presented within the Hôtel de Caumont rooms.
This volume presents a general selection of over forty paintings by El Greco from the most famous museums around the world. At the same time, the young artists’ exploration of the paintings and visual spheres of the exceptional Spanish painter are discussed, opening up a fascinating view of the battle for Modernism.
In June 2012, Joana Vasconcelos will be representing contemporary art at Versailles.
Palazzo Grassi presents exhibitions of contemporary art through works of the François Pinault Collection.
Using previously unpublished archive documents, the authors trace the history of the commanderies of the Champagne region, which were some of the earliest in France. They describe the daily lives of the Templars, with their simultaneous activities as soldiers, merchants, artisans and farmers.
In honor of the major traveling retrospective (2011-2012) devoted to the remarkable career of Gerhard Richter, the Louvre, as a partner of this event, exhibits about a hundred works on paper as well as the artist’s Two Sculptures for a Room by Palermo in the Mollien rooms of the Department of Prints and Drawings.
Paul Rebeyrolle (1926-2005) has gained recognition as one of the foremost twentieth-century French painters.
The first retrospective exhibition in France devoted to one of the founding movements of post-war architecture, from Italy, "La Tendenza, Italian Architectures, 1965-1985" presents a selection of over 250 drawings, models, photographs, paintings and films, as well as a rich documentation.
Exhibition album "1917" shown at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (26 May to 24 September 2012).
La présente monographie, consacrée à une version de La Méduse que les plus éminents spécialistes du Caravage s'accordent à reconnaître comme une oeuvre autographe, retrace le parcours de cette reconnaissance récente.
The definitive book on contemporary sustainable design and architecture from around the world
A comprehensive monograph documenting the entire career to date of Ronan Bouroullec (b.1971) and his brother Erwan (b.1976), who took the design world by storm with their first joint projects in the late 1990s and have continued to produce exceptional designs ever since.
Laurent Grasso has conceived his exhibition at Jeu de Paume around the recurring concerns of his work, in which the relation to time and temporality becomes uncertain, as is the origin of the objects he creates.
Critical catalogue of the complete paintings and ceramics of Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1956). Since the monographs on Vlaminck by Maurice Genevoix (1954) and Marcel Sauvage (1956), which both appeared during the artist's lifetime, no reference work has been published on the painter.
This first retrospective exhibition, showing approximately 120 vintage prints, aims to introduce the public to the life and work of this emigrant and “Berliner by choice”, a convinced cosmopolitan and the “Grande Dame” of Dutch photography.
Turner, Monet, Twombly makes a powerful case for a relationship between three of the world’s greatest artists: English Romantic J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926), and American abstract painter Cy Twombly (1928–2011).
Published specifically for MONUMENTA 2012, this book includes most of the sketches, preparatory drawings and plans, designed by Daniel Buren for MONUMENTA.
Every year, Monumenta invites an internationally-renowned contemporary artist to produce a monumental work for display in the Grand Palais. Dniel Buren, one of France's greatest artists, will be rising to this challenge during the fith Monumenta event.
Exhibition album "Gerhard Richter, Panorama" at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (June 6 - September 24, 2012).
A guide book to Versailles with beautifull photos and clear explanations on major masterpieces of the Palace.