Archive for the ‘France’ Category

American artist Daniel Arsham will showcase three new bodies of work at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris.
1178 via designboom


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


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

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"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


Russia's State Hermitage Museum last night bought 92 watercolor portraits valued at $4.8 million from the Paris-based Popoff Collection.
636 via Bloomberg


Upcoming: Hernan Bas will show at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris on Jan. 9, 2010.
573 via Galerie Perrotin


Tourists visiting Paris this week may have to skip plans to explore the city’s famed museums due to threats of a strike on Dec. 2.
560 via ARTINFO


An intrepid team of archaeologists have been diving for 20 years to bring up the 500 or so objects now being displayed at Arles Museum.
400 via The Independent


Paris's Louvre museum launched a free application giving Apple iPhone and iPod touch users access to its collections.
393 via The Independent


On October 22, during the FIAC, at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Terence Koh showed “Adansonias,” an imaginary opera.
388 via Whitewall


Terence Koh creates a space in which memory and imagination mix with art history and subculture - at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
379 via Art Observed


Paris Photo: from 19-22 November, the world's leading fair for photography will feature 102 exhibitors from around the world.
325 via Paris Photo


Paris: This year's Photoquai, features the work of 50 contemporary photographers from mostly ‘non western’ countries.
288 via Wallpaper


Video promoting the highlights of Paris' FIAC art fair, which opens tomorrow and will run until October 25.
279 via FIAC




