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The district of Belleville in north-east of Paris, could be one day to contemporary art what the Avenue Montaigne has always been to haute couture: a landmark creation. In this hectic social return, art galleries and alternative spaces beat the pavement preparing to host the first Biennial of Belleville, devoted to contemporary local art. [...]

The new exhibition at the Arts Decoratifs is very exciting. In the first part of this epic about fashion and its icons, it is all about the fashion shows. Under the intricacies of the museum, the exhibition looks at the major creators of 70’s/80’s and their influence on the last four decades. Free and [...]

For 20 years, the Festival Paris Quartier d’Eté upsets conventions. Jardin des Tuileries Ourcq Canal, the Royal Palace at La Villette, discover the 14 July to 15 August 2010 an eclectic, consisting of dance, theater, circus and performance. At the Festival Paris Quartier d’Eté, you will observe other rules of the game with other [...]

What do you know about Sonia Rykiel? Her striped pullovers, which earned her the title of “Queen of knitting”? Her inside out seams, the “no seam” and “not doubled”? And do you know the thoughtful Sonia, outlining her imagination on paper? These are more than 200 sketches of the famous fashion designer who will [...]

Opened in April 2010, the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts starts strong in its first exhibition devoted to Marcel Proust, iconic literature character. Through some 160 documents, some of which have never been published, the museum has an exceptional collection of letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs and original editions of the author. Recently acquired from [...]

This is the show that everyone is speaking at this moment in Paris. Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice, slayer of the death penalty (abolished in France September 30, 1981), is the source of this pictorial retrospection of crime and punishment. In the center of the artistic reflection, the question of the legitimacy of [...]

In association with Serge Bramly, Bettina Rheims reveals a raw and poetic vision of Paris. One hundred photographs and a film telling the epic of B., a young woman looking for Rose, her twin sister, allegedly disappeared. Starting point for an initial quest through an intimate Paris, the story unfolds in thirteen episodes, where [...]

When Shakespeare mixes with Notre-Dame, it has to be an amazing bookshop where « time doesn’t spend the same for everybody. » This hybrid place is located between attic-mase and museum-library. It contains an impressive collection of English and American books: classics, modern books, old books, pocket books and casual books. Your favorite English-speaking book is [...]

The trip is an art, the art of magic, memories, smells and spices. So says the universe Menchari Leila, to whom we owe the Hermes shop windows. At the crossroads of luxury and the East, it invests the Institut du Monde Arabe until June 6, featuring eight designs inspired by her childhood in Tunisia, [...]

Thirty-three years after their participation in the exhibition “Artiste / Artisan” at the Musee Les Arts decoratifs, the sculptors Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne are exhibited within the prestigious nave of the museum. This unusual couple saw the nature as a creative substance. Inexhaustible source of inspiration, its polymorphism has given life to hybrid and [...]

After computing, it’s the turn of the video game to make its entrance into museum for the first time in France. At the top of la Grande Arche de la Defense, the museum of video game shows and promotes a forty-years-old heritage of art and material. If the first games emerged in the 1950s, [...]