Diane Arbus at the Jeu de Paume

The largest retrospective of the work of Diane Arbus ever exhibited in France opened yesterday at the Jeu de Paume. Throughout the 1960s Diane Arbus turned her curious, empathetic and unflinching gaze on to the fringes of society, its margins… “My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been” said Arbus, and it was [...] [...]

Claude Cahun at the Jeu de Paume

Long before Cindy Sherman, the French artist and writer Claude Cahun (1894-1954) was using her own image to expose, one by one, the clichés of feminine and masculine identity. Claude Cahun (née Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob) reinvented herself through photography (just as she did in her writing), posing for the lens with [...] [...]

France Fiction at the Jeu de Paume

Experimental local collective France Fiction are currently presenting an exhibition at the Jeu de Paume. For the museum’s satellite programme, France Fiction have imagined a ‘Billes-Club Concordance Accident’, a new marbles club conceived specially for the Jeu de Paume, along with an inventory of the existing France Fiction marble clubs (‘Billes-Club du Palais [...] [...]

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