ART: Elles at Centre Pompidou

[ 2 June 2009 to 1 June 2010. ] Elles@Centre Pompidou presents 500 works by over 200 women artists, from canonical figures such as Sonia Delaunay and Frida Kahlo to such contemporary artists as Annette Messager and Louise Boureois.

www.centrepompidou.fr

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ART: Né Dans La Rue at Fondation Cartier

[ 7 July 2009 to 10 January 2010. ] Examining the birth of a street culture tantamount to an artistic movement, the Fondation Cartier’s extensive graffiti exhibition proves the validity of this expressive medium. Frequently dismissed as mere vandalism, graffiti and street art include richly expressive works by talented artists who, in the course of their work, reconfigure relationships to urban space: once painted [...]

ART: ‘Takashi Murakami Paints Self-Portraits’

[ 12 September 2009 16:00 to 17 October 2009 19:00. ] An exhibition of major and never-before exhibited works by Japanese pop sensation and Marc Jacobs buddy, including seventeen paintings, including three monumental works, five sculptures and two films.
Tue-Sat, 10am-7pm. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 76 rue de Turenne & 10 impasse Saint-Claude, 3rd. M° St-Sebastien Froissart. 01.42.16.79.79. www.galerieperrotin.com/
Vernissage samedi 12 septembre 2009 / 16h – 21h

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ART: Thomas Lélu

[ 12 September 2009 18:00 to 31 October 2009 19:00. ] “Works with Kongo”
www.galeriefiat.com/

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ART: Veilhan-Versailles

[ 13 September 2009 10:00 to 13 December 2009 19:00. ] Up-and-coming French artist Xavier Veilhan follows on from Jeff Koons, investing the Château de Versailles with contemporary works. Don’t miss.
www.veilhan-versailles.com/

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FASHION: Madeleine Vionnet

[ 14 September 2009 to 31 January 2010. ] With all the recent agonising over Chanel’s legacy, you might be starting to believe that fashion was a barren wasteland before Coco de-boned the corset. In the business of beauty, blazing celebrity and a juicy personal life too often eclipse sober genius and artistic purity. Madeleine Vionnet is one of those uncompromising revolutionaries, appreciated by [...]

Festival d’Automne

[ 15 September 2009 to 19 December 2009. ] A first-rate multi-disciplinary festival covering theatre, dance, visual arts, and music.
Highlights from the program this year include:
Merce Cunningham’s company pay homage to the visionary dancer and choreographer, who passed away this year, with a late piece, Nearly Ninety.  A giant-scale work poised between rigor and chaos, featuring 13 dancers in solo, duo and trio pieces. [...]

ART: Photoquai

[ 22 September 2009 to 22 November 2009. ] Created in 2007 by the musée du quai Branly and dedicated to non western, or ‘world’ photography, Photoquai is a new international photography biennial. The curator this year is Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, an Iranian gallerist and founder of the Silk Road Gallery. For this second edition, the musée du quai Branly honours Iranian photography with [...]

In-I : Juliette Binoche / Akram Khan

[ 6 October 2009 00:00 to 18 October 2009 00:00. ] A daring new work co-directed and performed by the celebrated French actress Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Chocolat) and Akram Khan, the acclaimed London-based choreographer, alongside set-design by the Turner Prize winning sculptor Anish Kapoor. Costumes are by Alber Elbaz for Lanvin and Kei Ito.The bold (and rather lofty) mission of the piece is to [...]

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