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 [geo_mashup_map] [...]

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 [...] [...]

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 [...] [...]

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