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: 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 [...]

ART: Antidote 5 at Galeries Lafayette

[ 20 October 2009 to 9 January 2010. ] In its fifth year, the Galerie des Galeries’ annual Antidote exhibition features the work of ten emmerging French artists: Dove Allouche, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Etienne Chambaud, Isabelle Cornaro,  Aurélien Froment, Mark Geffriaud, Laurent Montaron, Jimmy Robert, and Clément Rodzielski.

http://www.galerieslafayette.com/

ART: ‘Art Nouveau Revival’ at Musée d’Orsay

[ 20 October 2009 to 4 February 2010. ] An exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay examining the relationship between 19th century Art Nouveau and its 1960s reincarnation.  Purchase tickets online (and avoid the queue) via Fnac.

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ART: Fellini at Jeu de Paume

[ 20 October 2009 to 17 January 2010. ] As that seminal work of Italian cinema – La Dolce Vita – nears its 50th anniversary, the Jeu de Paume celebrates with a retrospective of Frederico Fellini’s films and his life behind the camera. Visitors to the exhibition recieve a discount to screenings of Fellini’s films at the Cinémathèque Française.

http://www.jeudepaume.org/

FILM: Fellini at La Cinémathèque Française

[ 21 October 2009 to 20 December 2009. ] In tandem with the Jeu de Paume’s retrospective of Frederico Fellini, La Cinémathèque Française is screening several of his films.  Visitors to the Jeu de Paume exhibition are offered a discount on admission to the Cinémathèque.

http://www.cinematheque.fr/

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