Archive for the ‘France’ Category

Louis Vuitton announced the launch of its Young Arts Project in London that partners the brand with the city's top museums.
1581 via Telegraph


The New York-based artist Serge Spitzer creates a chaotic plastic transportation system inside Paris’s Palais de Tokyo.
1405 via Dazed Digital


Neptunes producer/fashion buff Pharrell Williams debuted his newest creation, "The Tank" chair at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin.
1382 via The Boom Box


Julien Berthier’s public installation art rearranges and subverts reality by forcing paradoxes and illusions in our environment.
1356 via Julien Berthier


A video documenting a day around Zaha Hadid’s CMA CGM Tower in Marseilles, France.
1340 via Arch Daily


At the Paris unveiling of Cy Twombly's soaring new fresco, the American artist was awarded the French Legion of Honor.
1335 via ARTINFO


Paris' Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents a new exhibition of paintings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Flying Paintings.
1312 via Contemporary Art Daily


An American painter who has spent the past 60 years living and working in Paris, Shirley Jaffe has a rich, resonant style.
1248 via ARTINFO


The exhibit, which showcases more than 300 of YSL's designs from 1958 to his last collection in 2002, opens in the Petit Palais.
1247 via YSL


Japanese film-maker and artist Takeshi Kitano has turned Paris' prestigious Foundation Cartier into a brightly colored children's funfair.
1245 via Guardian


American artist Daniel Arsham will showcase three new bodies of work at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris.
1179 via designboom


Centre Pompidou’s forthcoming retrospective is of one of the world’s greatest living painters, Lucian Freud.
1150 via gogoparis.com

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At the Pinacothèque, Marc Restellini attracted a series of high-profile exhibitions – Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, the Chinese warriors.
1142 via The Independent


Lisette Model is an icon of 20th-century street photography. Her images radiate empathy and humor. Until June 6 at Jeu de Paume in Paris.
1106 via gogoparis.com


Kris Van Assche created cool metallic sculptures that look like futuristic flowers that play movies.
1102 via gogoparis.com


The idea for the Lyon Bienniale is to use the spectacle to spotlight an invisible world of the everyday.
971 via We Make Money Not Art


Designer Adam Kimmel's collection was inspired by George Condo and the characters that inhibit the artist's world.
914 via Dazed Digital


Christian Boltanski used light, sound, machinery and even the weather to create "Personnes" - on view at the Grand Palais.
882 via gogoparis.com


Hernan Bas exhibits a collection of paintings depicting a solitary figure lost within turbulent and abstracted landscapes.
826 via Art Observed


The Palace of Versailles will host Takashi Murakami's retrospective (9/12 - 12/12), it's his first major exhibition in France.
795 via AFP


Christian Boltanski will represent France at the 2011 Venice Biennale. This month he opens a show at the Grand Palais in Paris.
779 via Monumenta


Thieves have stolen about 30 paintings, including a work by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, from a private villa in France.
746 via Reuters


"The Chorus" by Edgar Degas (estimated $1.15 million) was stolen from a museum on Wednesday night in Marseille, France.
738 via Reuters


Jeu de Paume's exhibition “Fellini, la Grande Parade” examines the director's career - on view through January 17, 2010.
718 via Jeu de Paume




