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A rare chance to see Jacques Offenbach's opera in a beautiful outdoor setting in Paris...
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photo of Jacques Offenbach taken from the French Wikipedia page

mercredi 7 mai 2008

Kiraz drawings exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet

Kiraz is extremely well-known in France for his instantly recognisable style of drawings, especially his series of impossibly tall and thin women called 'Les Parisiennes'. The Musée Carnavalet, the Paris museum about Paris, is holding an exhibition showing his large body of work.
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lundi 21 avril 2008

A Night at the Museum - 17th May 2008 in Paris (and all over Europe)

If your (sad) excuse for never going to museums is that they close early and cost a lot, this free late night event is definitely for you.
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mercredi 16 avril 2008

Narrative Figuration exhibition at the Grand Palais

Bringing together over one hundred paintings, objects or films, Narrative Figuration Paris, 1960-1972 is an exploration of the sources of the figurative revival which marked the history of art in the sixties in Paris...
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La Antelasa, Equipo Crόnica, Coll. Fondation Juan March., Madrid, © ADAGP, Paris 2008

mardi 15 avril 2008

2 CV exhibition at the Cité des Sciences

The mythical French car is 60 this year...
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photo (c) cite.sciences

lundi 14 avril 2008

The Jules Verne Aventures 2008 film festival in Paris

Bigger every year, and now international with a sister event in Los Angeles, this festival has a wide variety of surprising and exciting films on offer on the theme of exploring and preserving our planet...
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vendredi 11 avril 2008

The Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris celebrates its fortieth birthday with a new exhibition

Paris has lots of sights for fans of architecture, but perhaps you don't know about the Fondation Le Corbusier, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a new exhibition...
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photo (c) elen_

jeudi 10 avril 2008

Collective Parisian pant-wetting session 17th April for Lord of the Rings fans

John Howe, one of the conceptual artists for the Lord of the Rings films, will be making a rare appearance in Paris to inaugurate a new exhibition of his drawings and sign copies of his new book Fantasy Art.
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photo (c) Les mondes engloutis

mardi 8 avril 2008

Camille Claudel retrospective at the Musée Rodin

A new retrospective of the artist that - according to some - surpassed her master...
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La Vague, ©Musée Rodin (Photo Ch. Baraja), ©ADAGP, Paris

lundi 7 avril 2008

Golden Reflections - a new exhibition at the Cluny Museum in Paris

After four years of intensive research and in collaboration with the Louvre, a rare chance to see works from the 9th - 15th Century.
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vendredi 4 avril 2008

Napoleonic objects exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs

The Napoleonic era is not known for its understatement, indeed it has become symbolic of all things lush and ostentatious, but this exhibition aims to show the variety of creations made at that time, and the incredible work involved...

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mardi 18 mars 2008

Prenez soin de vous - a new Sophie Calle exhibition at the BNF

The artist, photographer, writer and filmmaker has been using the experiences of her life as the inspiration for her work for over thirty years now. This latest exhibition is based on an e-mail she received from a male friend, telling her that their relationship was over. His last words were "look after yourself" (prenez soin de vous)...
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photo : Jean-Baptiste Mondino

mercredi 12 mars 2008

New exhibition at the Jeu de Paume Sully site: The Stamp of Fantasy, The Visual Inventivenesss of Photographic Postcards

The exhibition looks at what, several years before the illustrated press or the book, was the first medium for the mass distribution of photography: the postcard...

Untitled, Germany circa 1906, Neue Photographische Gesellschaft, Peter Weiss Collection

mardi 11 mars 2008

artparis 08 - modern and contemporary art show at the Grand Palais from 3rd-7th April

Celebrating its 10th edition this year, artparis is a huge show with galleries from around the world attending...
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jeudi 6 mars 2008

Babylon exhibition at the Louvre

Near eastern antiquities and paintings that explore the myth and reality of the ancient city, the extent of its influence and the way in which the Babylonian myth grew out of its historical reality....
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jeudi 21 février 2008

Infiniment Indes - a photo exhibition at the Musée Albert Khan

The story of Albert Khan is a fascinating one, and his gardens - just outsides of Paris but easy to get to by metro - are an incredible place that you should definitely discover...

mardi 12 février 2008

Land 250 - a Patti Smith exhibition at the Fondation Cartier