The gobsmacking pop-up restaurant perched on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo (and sponsored by Electrolux) is staying, probably another whole year, but at least over summer and for la rentrée, dates to be confirmed in September. The hard-to-get 12 seater lunch and dinner bookings continue to be released 1 day at a time, [...]
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Together, neighbouring art institutions the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’Art Moderne present this massive survey of the up-and-coming generation (under 35 years old) of artists working in France today. Forty artists each present one work (of every technique and style, including painting, video and sculpture) in each museum, creating a powerful experience in [...] The ingenious Paris design company Atypyk is featured at the moment at Black Block, the arty little knick-knack store inside the Palais de Tokyo. Race down and check out their great catalogue, including new products like the ‘No Shit!’ pile of chocolate (a great souvenir from Paris) or the spooky Ghost Towel; other faves include [...] ‘1916: Le Corbusier builds a “Turkish Villa” at La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), the Villa Schwob, flanked by a pergola. A few years later, he publishes photos of it in L’Esprit Nouveau. On the ground, in front of the villa, a white mark indicates a retouch. The pergola has disappeared. Less than a century later, the Iraki [...] 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 [...] In the wake of the exhibitions Gakona and Spy Numbers, the Palais de Tokyo’s new group show is again thick with intrigue, with 18 artists whose works also read as instruction manuals on how to withdraw into seclusion and take refuge in the limits of the visible. Painter Paul Laffoley deals with occultism, paganism [...] |
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