Centre Pompidou-Metz

The provincial French town of Metz, 3 hours east of Paris, is soon to become a new art destination thanks to this spring’s opening of a ‘branch’ of Paris’s Pompidou Centre, marking the first decentralisation of a French public cultural institution. Like its Paris sibling, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will be dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century [...]

Naoshima at the Palais de Tokyo

The temporary exhibition in the Palais de Tokyo’s mezzanine gives visitors the chance to escape to a small group of Japanese islands where Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been conducting a 20-year experiment on the relationship between art-architecture and society. The project began with a series of architectural commissions by Tadao Ando on the island [...]

Jean Nouvel book signing, Taschen (Thu 30 Oct)

Taschen welcomed customers to its chic, Starck-designed Paris store Thursday night to meet its newest author. Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel. Complete Works 1970-2008 celebrates the Pritzer prize-winning architect. One of the most original and innovative of architects, Jean Nouvel is famous for his work across the globe (Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Lyon Opera [...]

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