Paris

Jacques Villeglé : la comédie urbaine  |  Art, 09 17 2008 - 01 5 2009 For the first time in France the Centre Pompidou is presenting a retrospective of the works of one of today's major French artists, Jacques Villeglé. Now aged 82 years, since 1949 Jacques Villeglé has developed very detailed works with an amazing formal richness, almost exclusively using a single material - the ripped or lacerated poster. Centre Pompidou Place Georges Pompidou- Paris, France Every day 11am - 9pm, except Tuesdays and May 1. Night opening on Thursdays until 11pm for certain exhibitions, details in the Agenda of events Atelier Brancusi : every day 2pm - 6pm. Admission: Regular fee  €10 / Concessionary (entitled)  €8 Museum free for all visitors on the first Sunday of the month. http://www.cnac-gp.fr

FROM ONE REVOLUTION TO ANOTHER  |   Contemporary Art, 09 25 2008 - 01 4 2009 Carte blanche to Jeremy Deller (Turner Prize awarded) with Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matt Price, William Scott, Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns. From the Industrial Revolution to the appearance of glam rock in England, by way of the electronic music in Soviet Union, the emergence of rock in France, the union banners of Ed Hall and the personal fictions of William Scott, the exhibition FROM ONE REVOLUTION TO ANOTHER explores fields in the margins of contemporary art and questions possible relationships between industrial and cultural revolutions.  Every year the Palais de Tokyo invites an artist to take on the role of curator and come up with an out-of-the-ordinary project. Palais de Tokyo 13, avenue du Président Wilson - Paris, France Hours: everyday except Monday noon to midnight Admission: adult 6 € / concessions € 4,5 http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)  |  Expresionism, 09 25 2008 - 01 19 2009 German expressionism is a new subject in France. Emil Nolde (1867-1956), one of the main representatives of the movement, has never had a retrospective. For the first time in France, an ambitious exhibition pays homage to this great figure of modern art by bringing together ninety paintings and seventy watercolours, engravings and drawings. Read the complete article  Image: Danseuses aux bougies, Emil Nolde 1912 Huile sur toile 100,5 x 86,5 cm Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde Neukirchen, Allemagne © Nolde Stiftung-Seebüll Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 3, avenue du Général-Eisenhower- Paris, France Hours: daily from 10 am to 8 pm / Wednesdays from 10 am to 10 pm Closed on Tuesdays http://www.grandpalais.fr/

Mantegna (1431-1506)  |  Old Masters, 09 29 2008 - 01 5 2009 Drawing on its remarkable collection of Andrea Mantegna's paintings (by far the largest outside Italy), completed by exceptional loans from other French and international collections, the Louvre has mounted France's first major retrospective of this foremost Renaissance artist.  Image: Saint Marc 1447-1448 env. Toile. H. 81,1 ; l. 63, 7 cm Francfort, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, inv. 1046 © Ursula Edelmann / Artothek Musée du Louvre 99, rue de Rivoli- Paris, France Opening Hours: Every day except Tuesday: 9 am - 6 pm Open  until 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday evening. Admission: Permanent Collections: €8.50 / €6  (from 6 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.)  Exhibitions in the Hall Napoléon : €8.50 Combined Ticket: €13 / €11  (permanent collections +  temporary exhibitions in both the Louvre and the Musée Eugène Delacroix.) Admission to the Louvre is free on the first Sunday of every month. http://www.louvre.fr/

Upside Down - Les Arctiques  |  Archeology, 09 30 2008 - 01 11 2009 Upside Down: les Arctiques brings together around 500 of the most important pieces from ancient Eskimo and Inuit culture. They are all representative of major epochs, cultures and sites, and illustrate the extraordinary environment of the Arctic regions. Musée du Quai Branly 37, quai Branly - portail Debilly Paris France Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thurday, Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.   Admissions: Collections area + special theme exhibitions + anthropological exhibition  +  multimedia gallery: 8.50 € / Concessions 6 €  International exhibition admission ticket: 8.50 € / Concessions 6 €  "A day at the museum" ticket (museum + international exhibitions): 13 €  and  9.50 € Theatre, dance and music – Debates and encounters - Cinema - Presentations also require a fee. Free admission on Saturday after 6 p.m. for the under 26  http://www.quaibranly.fr

Van Dyck  |  Old Masters, 10 8 2008 - 01 25 2009 From the disciple of Rubens to the court painter of King Charles I of England, the Jacquemart-André Museum retraces the key phases of Anthony Van Dyck's career as a master portrait painter by bringing together his finest works from the major museums of Europe and the United States. This tribute is the very first time that Van Dyck has been the subject of such an exhibition on French soil. Read the complete review Image: Autoportrait 1622 ou 1623 Huile sur toile, 116,5 x 93,5 cm Musée de l’Ermitage, Saint Petersbourg Photos © Musée National l’Ermitage/Photographes :Vladimir Terebenin, Leonard Kheifets, Yuri Molodkovets, Svetlana Suetova Musée Jacquemart-André 158, bd Haussmann 75008 Paris France Hours: daily throughout the year  from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admissions: general 9.5€ / concessions 7€ http://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/

Picasso / Manet: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe  |  Art, 10 8 2008 - 02 1 2009 Invention and recycling, quotation and appropriation are all inseparable from Picasso's later work. Amongst the 19th century painters in his pantheon, Manet shines in the company of Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin. Of all the images that excited his admiring and destructive vitality, Le déjeuner sur l’herbe had few rivals. The Musée d’Orsay exhibition, an extension of Picasso and the Masters at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, brings about one of the most fruitful encounters in the history of painting. Image: Pablo Picasso Le déjeuner sur l'herbe after Manet © Succession Picasso, 2008 Musée d'Orsay 1, rue de la Légion d’Honneur- Paris, France Opening hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9.30am to 6pm  / Thursdays from 9.30am to 9.45pm Closed on Monday.  Museum and exhibitions: € 7.5 / concessions:  € 5.5  Free access for all on the first Sunday of each month http://www.musee-orsay.fr

Picasso et les maîtres  |  Art, 10 8 2008 - 02 2 2009 Picasso and the Masters at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais brings together 210 works from the most prestigious public and private, French and international museums. Confronting past and present, going beyond changes in style and formal innovations, the exhibition presents, in a cross between thematic and chronological approaches, guided by Picasso's painting alone : El Greco, Vélasquez, Goya, Zurbaran, Ribera, Melendez, Poussin, Le Nain, Dubois, Chardin, David, Ingres, Delacroix, Manet, Courbet, Lautrec, Degas, Puvis de Chavannes, Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Douanier Rousseau, Titien, Cranach, Rembrandt, Van Gogh. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 3, avenue du Général-Eisenhower- Paris, France Hours: daily from 10 am to 8 pm / Wednesdays from 10 am to 10 pm Closed on Tuesdays http://www.grandpalais.fr/

Picasso / Delacroix : Les Femmes d'Alger - Picasso et les maîtres  |  Art, 10 9 2008 - 02 2 2009 Coinciding with the major exhibition "Picasso and his Masters" held at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, the Louvre presents around 20 painted and graphic variations on Delacroix's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834), executed by Picasso in 1954-55. Image: Pablo Picsso "Les femmes d'Alger" (version O) Libby Howie © Succession Picasso 2008 Musée du Louvre 99, rue de Rivoli- Paris, France Opening Hours: Every day except Tuesday: 9 am - 6 pm Open  until 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday evening. Admission: Permanent Collections: €8.50 / €6  (from 6 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.)  Exhibitions in the Hall Napoléon : €8.50 Combined Ticket: €13 / €11  (permanent collections +  temporary exhibitions in both the Louvre and the Musée Eugène Delacroix.) Admission to the Louvre is free on the first Sunday of every month. http://www.louvre.fr/

colours and patterns of the world  |  Textiles, 10 14 2008 - 01 4 2009 The musée du quai Branly's first textiles exhibition is the opportunity to present the roles played and the positions held by fabrics in the different societies which manufacture them today or which manufactured them in the past. The exhibition presents a collection of fabrics of which the pattern is obtained by two successive and combined stages: the creation of "reserves" and the dyeing process. Musée du Quai Branly 37, quai Branly - portail Debilly Paris France Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thurday, Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.   Admissions: Collections area + special theme exhibitions + anthropological exhibition  +  multimedia gallery: 8.50 € / Concessions 6 €  International exhibition admission ticket: 8.50 € / Concessions 6 €  "A day at the museum" ticket (museum + international exhibitions): 13 €  and  9.50 € Theatre, dance and music – Debates and encounters - Cinema - Presentations also require a fee. Free admission on Saturday after 6 p.m. for the under 26  http://www.quaibranly.fr

Le Futurisme à Paris Une avant-garde explosive  |  Vanguards, 10 15 2008 - 01 26 2009 The Centre Pompidou has made the re-interpretation of the principal movements in the history of art in the 20th century one of the key directions of its new strategy for temporary exhibitions. In this framework, the exhibition's ambition is to re-assess the place and the status of Futurism, a fundamental source of modern art, and to examine its impact on the French avant-garde, Cubism, inviting viewers to make a fresh analysis of the relations between these two movements through more than 200 works and documents. Imagen: Umberto Boccioni. Stati d’animo : Quelli che vanno, 1911 © The Museum of Modern Art, New York Centre Pompidou Place Georges Pompidou- Paris, France Every day 11am - 9pm, except Tuesdays and May 1. Night opening on Thursdays until 11pm for certain exhibitions, details in the Agenda of events Atelier Brancusi : every day 2pm - 6pm. Admission: Regular fee  €10 / Concessionary (entitled)  €8 Museum free for all visitors on the first Sunday of the month. http://www.cnac-gp.fr

La passion à l’oeuvre, Rodin, Freud collectionneurs  |  Collecting, 10 15 2008 - 02 22 2009 The Rodin Museum is organising an exhibition of the collections of antiquities that had belonged to Rodin and Freud. The Freud collection, kept at the Freud Museum of London, is presented for the first time in France. The objective is to shed new light on the close links between the work of these two men and their passion for antiquity.The exhibition will display a selection of antiquities of various origins - Egypt, Greece and Rome - and will highlight the works of major importance. Image: Sigmund Freud assis à côté du divan, dans son cabinet de consultation, 19 Bergasse à Vienne,© The Freud Museum London, vers 1930, IN 26 Musée Rodin Musée Rodin - 79 Rue de Varenne 75007 Paris France Opening Days Rodin Museum in Paris : Every day except Mondays Summer Opening Hours (April to September): 9.30 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. Winter Opening Hours (October to March): 9.30 a.m. to 4.45 p.m. Admission: Full rate Museum: 6 euros / Camille Claudel exhibition : 7 euros Twin ticket: (museum+exhibition+garden) : 10 euros  Youngsters rate (18-25) : Museum : 4 euros / Camille Claudel exhibition : 4 euros / Twin ticket (museum+exhibition+garden) : 7 euros  Garden : 1 euro Permanent collections and gardens are free on the first sunday of each month. http://www.musee-rodin.fr

Shôkokuji, Pavillon d'Or, Pavillon d'Argent - Zen et Art à Kyoto  |   Oriental Art, October 16 - December 14, 2008 Shôkokuji, the Golden Pavilion, the Silver Pavilion - Zen and Art in Kyoto invites you to discover an outstanding selection of paintings, calligraphy and ritual objects. Conferences, meditation, tea ceremonies and incense, workshops of Ikebana and paintings, stories Zen, 2D films an introduction to the secrets of the Zen tradition.  80 works of art selected from the artistic treasures of three of the most famous Zen temples of Kyoto (two of which are World Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO) never shown in Europe before. Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris Avenue Winston Churchill - 75008 Paris, France Hours: daily from 10 am to 6 pm / Tuesday  until 8 pm Free entrance to the Permanent Collection. The temporary exhibitions have an aditional fee.   http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/

Monet, l'Oeil Impressionniste  |  Impressionists, 10 16 2008 - 02 15 2009 Monet, the Impressionist Eye will showcase some sixty works of Monet, some coming from our own collection and others specially lent to the Musée Marmottan Monet for this exhibition. Which part of Monet's water lilies is the culmination of a journey on which he started some sixty years previously in Le Havre? Perhaps it is the largest part; but perhaps another element may be linked to the battle he was waging against cataracts, and to the anxiety it must have engendered, at a time when he was at last recognized, free to leave for posterity a masterful and unquestionable testimony of his unique relationship to the world. Musée Marmottan Monet 2, rue Louis-Boilly 75016 Paris France Hours:  daily from 10 am to 6 pm  Admission: general 8€ / concessions  4,50€ http://www.marmottan.com

De Miró à Warhol. La Collection BERARDO à Paris  |  Art, 10 16 2008 - 02 22 2009 The seventy-four works on display in the Musée du Luxembourg correspond to five major artistic movements in the twentieth century: Surrealism (Miró, Dali, Ernst, Breton…), one of the strong points of the pre-1945 collection; Abstraction from 1910 to the immediate post-war period (Mondrian, Tanguy, Arp…); Europe vs. America in the 1960s, with Nouveau Réalisme and Pop Art (Warhol, Klein, Soulages, Mitchell…); post-1945 Plastic Explorations (Riopelle, Schnabel, Stella…). Musée du Luxembourg 19, rue de Vaugirard - 75006 Paris, France Hours: open daily  Monday to Thursday 11am - 7 pm / Friday  11 am - 10 pm / Saturday and Sunday  9 am - 7 pm Admission: 10 € / concessions 8 € http://www.museeduluxembourg.fr

Raoul Dufy, le Plaisir  |  Archeology, 10 17 2008 - 01 12 2009 The Museé d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris hosts a major retrospective of the works by fauvist painter  Raoul Dufy. The exhibit includes works like "Fée Électricité" (Electricity Fairy)  specially created for  the famous Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques (1937), that had not been shown in public since the death of  the artist in Paris, 1953. Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris 11, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, France Open: 10 a.m.-5.30 p.m. / Saturday, Sunday: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Closed: Monday, bank holidays http://www.mam.paris.fr

Christian Bonnefoi  |   Contemporary Art, 10 22 2008 - 01 5 2009 For the first time, the Centre Pompidou is presenting a retrospective exhibition of the work of the artist Christian Bonnefoi, a singular figure on the French contemporary art scene since the 1970s. Image: Eureka VI, Gaudéo, 2003 © Christian Bonnefoi - Centre Pompidou Centre Pompidou Place Georges Pompidou- Paris, France Every day 11am - 9pm, except Tuesdays and May 1. Night opening on Thursdays until 11pm for certain exhibitions, details in the Agenda of events Atelier Brancusi : every day 2pm - 6pm. Admission: Regular fee  €10 / Concessionary (entitled)  €8 Museum free for all visitors on the first Sunday of the month. http://www.cnac-gp.fr

European Month Of Photography; Mutations II  |  Photography, 11 5 2008 - 01 25 2009 The European Month of Photography brings together the seven photography festivals of Berlin, Bratislava, Luxembourg, Moscow, Paris, Rome and Vienna in a single network. Mutations II is the network's second common project. It deals with the relationship of photography and video.  Image: Affiche réalisée para Robert Combas Maison Européenne de la photographie 5/7 rue de Fourcy - 75004 Paris France Hours: daily from 11 am to 8 pm Closed on Monday and Tuesday Admission: general 6 €; concessions: 3 € Free entrance on Wednesday from 5 pm to 8 pm http://www.mep-fr.org/

Notorious  |  Video, 11 11 2008 - 02 22 2009 Notorious is a set of works acquired by the Frac Île-de-France over the past two years. Beyond the title with its explicit reference to Alfred Hitchcock's film, the exhibition veers markedly towards film: it actually incorporates several screenings - some 16 mm (Morgan Fisher, Philippe Decrauzat) and includes works which make more or less direct reference thereto (John Stezaker, Keren Cytter, Etienne Chambaud, Wilfred Almendra). Le Plateau / FRAC Ile de France Angle de la rue des alouettes et de la rue carducci 75019 Paris Place Hannah Arendt Hours: Wednesday  and Friday 2 pm - 7 pm/ Saturday and Sunday noon - 8 pm Free entrance. Events Admission Fee: 4 € http://www.fracidf-leplateau.com

Damian Ortega  |   Contemporary Art, 11 12 2008 - 02 9 2009 Along with Abraham Cruz-Villegas and Gabriel Kuri, he is one of the most prominent artists of the new Mexican generation. He first came to wider attention with his Cosmic Thing at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. With a slightly irreverent approach, the artist parodies the purity of minimalist sculpture. His sculptures, photographs and actions often draw on "poor" materials and evoke potential evolution and continual change. Image:Courtesy Damián Ortega © Centre Pompidou Centre Pompidou Place Georges Pompidou- Paris, France Every day 11am - 9pm, except Tuesdays and May 1. Night opening on Thursdays until 11pm for certain exhibitions, details in the Agenda of events Atelier Brancusi : every day 2pm - 6pm. Admission: Regular fee  €10 / Concessionary (entitled)  €8 Museum free for all visitors on the first Sunday of the month. http://www.cnac-gp.fr

Ron Arad No discipline  |  Architecture, 11 20 2008 - 03 16 2009 For the first time in France, the Centre Pompidou is devoting a monograph to the British industrial designer and architect Ron Arad. His work is represented today by several works in the Design collection of the Musée national d'art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. Image: Ron Arad: Fauteuil Oh Void 2, 2008 © The Gallery Mourmans (photo Eric et Petra Hesmerg) - Conception du visuel: Ron Arad Centre Pompidou Place Georges Pompidou- Paris, France Every day 11am - 9pm, except Tuesdays and May 1. Night opening on Thursdays until 11pm for certain exhibitions, details in the Agenda of events Atelier Brancusi : every day 2pm - 6pm. Admission: Regular fee  €10 / Concessionary (entitled)  €8 Museum free for all visitors on the first Sunday of the month. http://www.cnac-gp.fr

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