The biggest, grandest, most important, anticipated, immense, vast, impressive art fair of the year is back in Paris!

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It’s THE essential artistic rendezvous of the year for art lover, the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, a shock between venerable venues (the nave of the Grand Palais and the courtyard of the Louvre) and the resolutely modern pieces exposed in them.

Now in its 37th year, the FIAC will be awarding the Marcel Duchamp as usual, you’ll be able to admire some works of modern art outside in the Tuileries Gardens (more info on this early September) or go and see various satellite events, such as Show Off (anothe rart faire) just by the Grand Palais. We’ll be telling you more about this very soon.

And even if you can’t go, nothing’s stopping you checkout out their Twitter account or scoping the Facebook page !

The 2010 FIAC is at the Grand Palais and theLouvre (here) from 21st – 24th October 2010. Open every days from midday – 8pm (9pm at the Louvre). Admission: 28€ / 15€. Free for under 12s!. Four-day pass: 50 €. Admission + catalogue, 50 €

Official site: www.fiac.com

Can’t make it this year? Jot these dates down in your Filofax:

FIAC 2011, du 20 au 23 octobre 2011
FIAC 2012, du 18 au 21 octobre 2012
FIAC 2013, du 24 au 27 octobre 2013