For this year’s Monumenta, the biggest art installation of the year in Paris, 74 year-old Daniel Buren will taking the reins, once again at the Grand Palais, one of our favourite venues in the city. (lire la suite / continue reading)

Free (apart from the temporary exhibitions, like the one about Atget), and huge, the musée Carnavalet is truly fascinating, with the whole history of Paris learn and look at – signs, maps, models, paintings, furniture, whole rooms recreated and even a perfectly preserved Art Nouveau shop.

Here’s our tour of the great museum…photos : JasonW (lire la suite / continue reading)

Focusing on the last millennium in the history of the pharaohs, The Twilight of the Pharaohs brings together over 100 objects lent by the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and many others…

© Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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Following right on the heels of the Berenice Abbott exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, the Eugène Atget retrospective at the Carnavalet (history of Paris) museum shows the city between 1898 and 1927, and promises some photos that have never been seen before… (lire la suite / continue reading)

A fine piece of culture for just 20 euros, and a free glass of champagne afterwards! Aren’t we just adorable?

Click the image to send an e-mail and book your seat, or call +33 (0)1 42 22 97 40.

We told you that the Palais de Tokyo was pre-opening a few days ago (for 30 hours non-stop, no less). Well, their official, actual reopening is just a few days away, with the art event la Triennale. Here are some photos of our (pre-)visit, where it was already clear that a lot has changed, and that the place is now absolutely HUGE!photos: JasonW

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It’s renamed ‘Disquaire Day’ here, and we may only be on our second edition, but things are looking decidedly interesting for the French version of Record Store Day, with a huge media buzz and some delectable limited editions to sniff out…

photo by Steve Snodgrass used under cc licence

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The first retrospective of the American artist considered to be the spiritual father of underground comics. (lire la suite / continue reading)

After ten months of being closed for a complete internal transformation, the Palais de Tokyo is back, better and bigger than ever, expanding from 8,000 to 22,000m². Just before the official reopening on 20th April for « la Triennale », the contemporary / experimental art museum will be open non-stop from 8pm on Thursday 12th April – midnight on 13th April.My Little Dead Dick © Patrick Tsai / Madi Ju
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Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano (1459-1517) was one of the most brilliant painters of late 15th/early 16th century Venice, just when the city was becoming the epicentre of the Renaissance. Strangely though, his reputation has not worn as well as other painters of the era.

This new exhibition is your chance to rediscover the work of a great artist that has been unjustly a little forgotten…Vierge à l’Enfant, vers 1490-1493, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi © Archives Alinari, Florence, Dist. RMN / Daniela Camilli
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