Abstract Art at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence
The Maeght Foundation is hosting about a hundred abstract artworks from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art collection, from Martin Barré to Claude Viallat and many rediscoveries.
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Simon Hantaï, the Centenary Exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation
The Louis Vuitton Foundation kept its promise that the exhibition celebrating the centenary of the birth of Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) would be an event.
The Secrets of Claude-Siméon Passemant’s Clock
Claude-Siméon Passemant’s astronomical clock has been entirely taken apart, studied and restored for an autumn exhibition at Versailles featuring Louis XV’s interests and passions.
Collecting History: “Œuvres Choisies” Celebrates Important Art Patrons and Collectors
The Hôtel Drouot welcomes visitors to the new installment of its regular collegial exhibition, known as the “Œuvres Choisies” (“Selected Works”). The exhibition presents some of the most exciting works to come up for sale in the upcoming months.
Louvre Curator Yannick Lintz: An Islamic Art Tour de France
The director of the Department of Islamic Arts at the Musée du Louvre reveals what is at stake with 18 exhibitions deployed throughout France to show the public all the beauties of this civilization.
T is for Tapestry
In the late Middle Ages, tapestry production, whose origins lay in the East and classical antiquity, was one of the most prominent crafts in Western Europe. Numerous widely-scattered workshops in France already foreshadowed the royal factories of the future.
Niki de Saint Phalle at the Galerie Mitterrand
The Galerie Mitterrand in Paris bills its new show as an echo of the “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960’s” exhibition at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas.
The Hôtel Drouot Reopens for the Season with the “Oeuvres Choisies”
The opening of the Drouot season is marked by “Oeuvres Choisies”, on view from September 21 – 23 in Room 9, a particularly sumptuous selection of aristocratic finery as well as some choice memorabilia from French celebrities past and present.
Camille Morineau: Promoting Women Artists of the 20th Century
Curating the groundbreaking “elles@centrepompidou” in 2009-11, featuring works by women artists from the Centre Pompidou collection, Camille Morineau, the President of AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), continues to tirelessly advocate for women artists and enlighten their forgotten histories.
Gardens at Giverny, from Monet to Bonnard
Composed, like a huge bouquet of about a hundred paintings, drawings, prints and photographs by Impressionist and Nabi artists, the show is a refreshing, inspiring evocation rather than a discourse on the construction of gardens.
In Arles, Vincent van Gogh’s Late Paintings Are Reimagined by Laura Owens
At the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the American artist Laura Owens has created an immersive environment that showcases seven works by Vincent van Gogh made at the end of his life in and around Arles.
Director of the Rencontres de la Photo d’Arles, Christoph Wiesner, Seeks a Mix of Renewal and Loyalty
The new director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photo d’Arles is focusing his first edition on highly topical subjects including questions of identity, with the accent on a multifaceted view of photography as a medium.
The Torlonia Collection’s Marbles Unveiled in Rome
This large private collection of marbles from antiquity amassed during the 19th century includes outstanding pieces, some of which were reproduced by Raphael.
Giorgio Morandi: The Magnani-Rocca Collection
The Musée de Grenoble in France has brought together all the Italian artist’s works owned by the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, near Parma. Delicate paintings in muted tones that move the viewer through their mysterious silence.
The Sismann Gallery Spotlights the Renaissance in Paris
Around 30 works attributed to some of the 16th century’s most illustrious artists immerse us in the Renaissance, from Normandy to Sicily, France’s primary art centers and the Italian peninsula.
Jean Dubuffet: “Brutal Beauty”
Curated by Eleanor Nairne, “Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty” harmoniously compliments the site of the Barbican Gallery, in London. Brutalist architecture and Dubuffet’s Art Brut go hand in hand, creating a world of materiality and delight for the audience to enjoy.
Spain Through American Eyes: A Pioneering Exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art
The exhibition “Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920” examines the widespread and, until now, under-appreciated influence of Spanish art and culture on American painting.
“Œuvres Choisies”: An Imaginary Menagerie and More
You never know what awaits you in an “Œuvres Choisies” exhibition, the collectively organized shows of objects that most excite dealers in their upcoming sales. What immediately stands out in the current sampling, on view through March 4th, is its concentration of animal imagery.
Audemars-Piguet, Between Modernity and Tradition
The Audemars Piguet museum-workshop unveils its heritage collection in a new avant-garde building, boasting an image halfway between tradition and innovation, and a certain boldness.
The Sublime Dystopian Visions of Superstudio
Their sublime, dystopian visions of the future were extreme and unbuildable, but they influenced a whole generation of architects. Fifty-five years after the founding of the radical Italian architecture collective Superstudio, a new Brussels exhibition pays homage to the power of their provocative images.
2021 Opens with “Drouot Déco”
The year’s first installment of “Drouot Déco”, a regular exhibition co-organized by auction house experts, is on view in Room 2 through January 25th. It assembles an eclectic lot of accessibly priced furniture and art offered in upcoming sales.
