Festivals and Films
Paris What's on
20 Dec 2006-19 Feb 2007. The Centre Pompidou and the Fondation Herg
Paris What's on
20 Oct 2006-8 Jan 2007. Sixty-four drawings by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) are on show in this exhibition at the Louvre marking the 400th anniversary of the artist's birth. Divided chr...
Paris What's on
Photographs at the Pompidou Centre.
27 Sept-27 Nov 2006. "Peintres de la vie moderne" is the title of this major exhibition of around 700 new photographic works recently acquired by the Centre Pompidou. The show has been organized aroun...
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Auguste Rodin and Eugne Carrire.
11 July-1 Oct 2006. The Muse dOrsay hosts this comparative exhibition of around 100 very different works by French sculptor and artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and his lesser-known contemporary, Eugn...
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28 April-8 May 2006. Divided into Leisure, Home and Garden, and Life Abroad, the annual Foire de Paris at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles covers 220,000 sqm of exhibition space with around 3,000 ex...
Paris What's on
8 Feb-4 Sept 2006. The Pompidou Centre is currently displaying heads of all shapes, sizes and materials. Aimed at visitors aged 5-12, the exhibition presents an interactive tte--tte between artworks f...
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Czanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885.
28 Feb-28 May 2006. The friendship and mutual influence of the two impressionist masters are at the centre of this extensive exhibition at the Muse dOrsay. Caribbean-born Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)...
Paris What's on
9 Feb-5 Aug 2006.
The painting of Paradise in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doges Palace in Venice is one of the worlds largest on canvas, measuring around 8m high by 27m long. It was painte...
Paris What's on
20 Oct 2005-25 June 2006. Im a chameleon, Lennon used to say, refusing to allow himself to be pigeon-holed by the media. Screen images of the many faces of John Lennon greet the visitor at the entranc...
Paris What's on
28 Sept 2005-9 Jan 2006.
Everyone knows the great French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. But outside the French-speaking world and cinema connoisseur circles, few know that his son was a...
Paris What's on
21 Sept-11 Dec 2005. This exhibition presents photographs by the English photographer Dorothy Bohm. For nearly 60 years, from 1947 to 2003, she explored the French capital, capturing images of a delic...
Paris What's on
9 Sept 2005 - 2 Jan 2006. Frans Post (1612-1680), from Brazil to the Court of Louis XIV. This is the "Year of Brazil in France", and the Louvre is participating too. In association with the National L...
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11 May -30 Oct 2005, 29 Nov 2005-15 Jan 2006. Modern French cuisine is of course wonderful today. But what was it like in ancient times? If you want to learn about Roman traditions and ancient Gallic...
Paris What's on
1 April-6 November 2005. What place did animals occupy and what were the different roles they played in Mediaeval daily life? This exhibition explores the symbolic vision of animals in this period by...
Paris What's on
Masterpieces from the OTA Museum of Tokyo (Japanese paintings and engravings)
6 July-15 August 2005.
This exhibition is devoted to Japanese paintings and engravings from Ukiyo-e - the floating world -, an art movement that portrays urban society in 18th- and 19th-century Edo...
Paris What's on
23 June-18 September 2005.
The Palais de Tokyo presents a true visual opera, in which exceptional works of contemporary art are given an extra dimension, thanks to an original positioning. The works...
Paris What's on
Robert Couturier Centenary at the Muse Maillol.
23 June-12 Sept 2005. Robert Couturier is the last remaining representative of French sculpture from the 1950s. To celebrate the artists hundredth birthday, this retrospective brings together 90 sculp...
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15 June-10 Oct 2005. Antonio Segui is one of the greatest contemporary Latin American painters. He was born in Argentina in 1934, but also spent 40 years of his life in Paris, giving him a distinct mu...
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Man and his Masks (Works of art from the Barbier-Mueller collection)
23 May28 August 2005. Sacred or profane, masks and the stories behind them can be fascinating. Some sixty masks from the exceptional Barbier-Mueller collection in Geneva are on show at the Muse Jacque...
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AFRICA REMIX Contemporary Art of a Continent
25 May8 August 2005. For the first time, contemporary art from all over African is assembled in one exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. Through works by more than 80 artists, Africa Remix reveals the m...
