The Prix Marcel Duchamp prize for 2007 was deservedly awarded to France's most intriguing and exciting young artist, who in recent years has made her mark with exhibitions in France's leading contemporary art spaces and solo shows in London and New York. Her exhibition at the Centre Pompidou redefines the geography of Espace 315 to produce an indeterminable space, putting perception into question through the play of scale and perspective. Corridors stretch to infinity, while the space is divided in the middle by a pierced black metal grille; on the walls are new drawings (from the "Remanence" series), black on black, in which forms drawn in graphite pencil or cut from sheet tin emerge and disappear with changes in the angle of view. Bronze sculptures seem to defy the laws of physics, a rope rises up to curve through the air... A whole new world in the interstices of the old. The title of the exhibition, "4 between 3 and 2", refers to the idea presiding over the creation of this world, the search for an intermediate dimension, a fourth, temporal dimension, between the three dimensions of sculpture and the two dimensions of drawings - a temporality that finds physical expression in the time of the exhibition in a continuous fall of black sand across the walls of the principal space, suggesting the gradual disappearance of the exhibition itself, its obliteration in and by time.

Showcasing 200 built and unbuilt works of one the world's most influential architects, the Pompidou Centre celebrates the creations of Dominique Perrault. As the latest in a series of tributes to great architects such as Christian de Portzamparc (1996),Jean Nouvel (2001) and Thom Mayne (2006), this exhibition further solidifies the centre's commitment to the understanding of contemporary architecture. Perrault, most famous perhaps for his contribution to the east Parisian skylinewith his controversial Bibliothéque National de France (1989-1995), has been hailed as the initiator of a new architectural perspective. The exhibition devotes over 1,000 square metres of gallery space to exploring his international designs through images, drawings and scale models, allowing the viewer to consider the length breadth of his groundbreaking delineations of architectural space. TM

Halfway between a baroque vanitas from the 17th century and a puppet from the Mexican day of the dead, Regis-R's monumental sculpture presented on the mezzanine of the Centre Pompidou reminds us of life's fragility. Like a contemporary archeological find, the skeleton, assembled out of a fantastic collection of found plastic, denouces our society's joyous over consumption.

Un audacieux projet de John Armleder spécifiquement conçu pour le Centre qui donne forme à un souhait d’exposition qu’Armleder n’avait jamais encore pu concrétiser. Celui-ci articule les notions de décor, d’appropriation et fait appel à l’ornement en tant que dispositif conceptuel. John Armleder délégue totalement la réalisation de ce projet au décorateur français de renommée internationale Jacques Garcia dont le registre créatif s’étend du minimalisme zen à la surcharge néo-gothique, de l’exotisme du retour d’Egypte à la folie Napoléon III. Il conçoit pour l’artiste un véritable appartement néo-bourgeois dans ses moindres détails, de l’entrée à la salle à manger en passant par la chambre et le salon. Dans cet espace, par essence privé, mais rendu ici public, des laques chinoises et autres savonneries côtoient des oeuvres de John Armleder, Georges Condo et Helmut Newton. Attaché à l’idée ‘qu’une pièce est terminée conceptuellement avant qu’elle ne soit produite’, l’oeuvre de John Armleder est bel et bien ici la réalisation de cette installation de Jacques Garcia selon le principe de la délégation, cher à l’artiste.

Yukiko is the name of a Marais shop, its friendly owner, and her luxury house brand. The store has been in the same Marais location for seven years, and from her storefront Yukiko has watched the neighborhood morph from an obscure destination for gallery-goers to a fashion hot-spot. Yukiko specialises in haute costume jewellery. It’s, in a word, gilded: chunky and thin necklaces abound, thick cuffs sit alongside dainty brooches. The store also boasts Yukiko’s own silky floaty pieces, plus a small selection of furs, Chanel handbags, and vintage Hermès blouses. It’s the perfect place for the girl who always loved borrowing from mum’s jewellery box (and possibly still does). SM

Hidden on a sleepy Marais street, this whimsical little workshop is one of the city’s best-kept shopping secrets. Its charming storefront, complete with intricate spinning mobiles and white porcelain magnets, beckons passerbys to come and discover the hand-made homewares inside. From their basement atelier, the husband and wife team of Stéphane and Jae Froger began producing their unique ceramic creations for the public in 2005. Since then fans have included everyone from neighbours and friends to discerning customers like the Hermès family. This is the perfect place to find a quintessentially French gift, at prices that could have you spoiling yourself as well. NF

Following the plight of Franz Biberkopf as he stumbles out of prison and into the chaos of Weimar-era Berlin, this 15-hour epic is widely considered one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s greatest works. The prolific German director adapted Alfred Döblin’s modernist novel as a 14-part serialisation for television in 1980, but it received only a lukewarm reception on its first airing. Thanks largely to championing by American critics, Berlin Alexanderplatz is today hailed a classic, as much for its dark, captivating visual imagery and outstanding understated performance as for its unique blend of cynicism and humanity. The newly restored version was first presented at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and will be screened in two all-day sessions at the Pompidou Centre on Sat 15-Sun 16 December (Sat 15 Dec: 1pm, episodes 1+2; 3.30pm, episodes 3+4; 5.45pm episodes 5+6; 8.30pm, episodes 7+8. Sun 16 Dec: 2pm, episodes 9+10; 4.15pm, episodes 11+12+13; 8pm, epilogue). RW
In German with French subtitles.

‘Perfume is dead! Long live perfume!’ This new shrine to scent is its own kingdom. Nathalie Feisthauer, Antoine Lie, Antoine MaisonDieu (grandson of Camus and trained as a ‘nose’ by Jacques Chaubert, inventor of Chanel’s Cristalle) have launched an unusual collection of subversive signature scents for a new world order: ‘Secretions Magnifiques’, ‘Putain des Palaces’, ‘Jasmin et Cigarette’…. Each perfume has a quirky story attached, and although scents of bodily fluids, say, may not seem immediately attractive, the fragrances are definite growers. Despite the boutique’s rather ordinary mod-esque typography/ décor, the concept and scents are original and interesting. Fragrance dispersers are lined up along the rue des Archives for public appraisal. Inside, the boutique is tiny, black and minimal; a calm post-modern boudoir.