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March 23, 2013
When Art Foretells a Grim RealityThe avant-garde artist Prune Nourry seems to have a sixth sense. Her ongoing project, Holy Daughters, brings to light the dark secrets of one of Asia’s largest countries and questions the grim consequences of misogynic parenting. Though ludic and playful, her installations, sculptures and videos now strike a deafly resonating chord in all who follow her work. Coincidence you say? I think not.
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February 20, 2013
Chagall, More Touching Than EverWith « Chagall, Between War and Peace », The Musee du Luxembourg proposes a double analepsis of the 20th century and Chagall’s work, and an unprecedented opportunity to revisit the personal mythology of this great artist.
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February 20, 2013
Fifty Shades of GrayThrough a selection of photographs, models and documents, for the most part unique, and together in an unprecedented way, the Pompidou Centre * offers a tribute to the architectural work of Eileen Gray that crossed the Art Deco and the Modern Movement and a poignant portrait of a discreet, poetic and enigmatic woman.
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December 04, 2012
Mary Cassatt at The Mona Bismarck FoundationFor the first time in over 100 years, over 60 prints and drawings by the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt can be seen at The Mona Bismarck American Center for Art & Culture (MBAC).
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November 29, 2012
From Paris to HollywoodThere’s only a few days left to see the exhibition Paris vu par Hollywood, at Paris’ city hall, an evocation of how American cinema represents the French capital from the 1930s onward.
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November 29, 2012
Pictures of FranceAn exposition of images of France ranging over half a century portraying the progression of French photography over the past fifty years, is currently on display at The European Maison de la Photographie
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November 29, 2012
Yue Minjun, The Chinese ClownCan we laugh at everything? Laugh to death?
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October 02, 2012
Dialogue on the Grand CanalThe Musée Jacquemart-André beautifully combines the work of two of the greatest vedutistes, Canaletto and Guardi, in an original dialogue.
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April 25, 2012
THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION SUPPORTS FRENCH AND AMERICAN COLLABORATION THROUGH THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE D’ORSAYParis, France, April 16, 2012 – The American Friends of the Musée d’Orsay (AFMO) announces today a $50,000 grant from the Annenberg Foundation that further supports a model American and French collaboration: the production of an exhibit of rare works by Edgar Degas titled Degas and the Nude by the Musée d’Orsay and Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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April 01, 2012
Japan... One year laterOne year after the disaster that shook Japan, and the city of Tohoku especially, it seems that Japanese artists are just beginning to express the aftermath of this tragedy in their works, conveying varied testimonies.
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