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Depuis bientôt cinquante ans, Carolyn Carlson occupe une place prééminente dans le monde de la danse contemporaine française dont elle fut, dès la fin des années 1960, l'une des rénovatrices.
In December 2012, after 10 years closure for restoration, the Kunstkammer (literally 'chamber of art and wonders') in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, has reopened. Kunstkammer, Vienna is being published for the opening.
This fully illustrated catalogue, with essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field of Picasso studies, tells the remarkable story of Pablo Picasso's breakthrough year – 1901 – as an artist.
The discovery of magnificent ancient bronze sculptures that spent millennia on the seabed and emerged unscathed is just one factor to have fed the continued fascination with this prized artistic medium.
Au début du 20e siècle, le fauvisme est à la mode à Paris. Sous l'impulsion de Henri Matisse, Vlaminck, Braque et d'autres encore, des artistes hongrois reprennent l'utilisation de larges aplats de couleurs vives.
The Marmottan Monet museum pays tribute to Marie Laurencin, one of the most famous female painters of the 20th century, and presents ob=ver 70 paintings and 20 drawings.
In the final years of his life, the style of the celebrated Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) took a crucial turn, resulting in some of his most significant and moving masterpieces.
A retrospective catalogue of the work of Philippe Cognée, French painter.
All visitors wishing to discover the culture of those societies around the world that today are referred to as Arab, to learn about their origins, development and the continuity of their living roots, now have a unique place to do so, the new museum in the Arab World Institute in Paris.
Focusing on a particularly fertile period in Holbeins career, this book features paintings, drawings and sketches that the artist completed in Basle, Switzerland.
The exhibition features a selection of forty-one paintings from the ‘Golden Age’ of the former Southern Netherlands, and covers all the important areas in which the artists from this region excelled: history painting, portraiture, genre painting, still life and landscapes.
The Croatian painter and designer, Boris Bućan, will be exhibiting his work at the Lieu du Design in Paris (November 9, 2012 - January 9, 2013).
More than a one man retrospective for Edouard Manet (1832-1883), the exhibition Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art explores and highlights the historical situation around him.
The Fondation Cartier for Art will present the first major European exhibition dedicated to the Chinese artist Yue Minjun, a unique opportunity to discover the work of an artist who, in spite of his international renown, continues to maintain a relatively low profile.
The Centre Pompidou pays tribute to one of the most complex and prolific great figures in 20th century art, Salvador Dalí, more than thirty years after the retrospective that the institution devoted to him in 1979-1980.
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.
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.