T.A.G. is an exhibition of contradictions. It is on show in the South-East gallery, a 700 m2 space which was never finished in time for the opening of the Grand Palais in 1900. Finally – over 100 years later – it is being done up with a view to integrating it into the Grand Palais’s [...]
Although he’s put forward as the “visionary genius of English Romanticism”, Blake evades isms. His work is like nothing else produced at the time. The strong sense of design and stylization of the human form simultaneously recall the flat decorative nature of Medieval manuscripts, and project forward to early comic-book superheroes: all sinewy forms and [...]
Calling all TV lovers! This is an exhibition for you. Described by the curator as “un zapping géant”, roughly translated as a massive channel-flicking session, Warhol TV takes us on a journey through Warhol’s obsession with TV, and also through different ways of showing television extracts in a gallery space. The scenography is a delight, [...]
Stelarc, Exoskeleton
Mécanique du Corps introduces us to the outlandish work of Stelarc, Australian performance artist and self-made cyborg. Although not there in person, Stelarc greets visitors through an avatar. The disembodied digital head waits patiently onscreen, blinking and raising his eyebrows suggestively, until called on to converse – which he acheives with an uncanny accuracy [...]
Henri Rivière, Enterrement aux Parapluies, 1885, etching and aquatint
One of the reasons for this exhibition, of the relatively little-known Henri Rivière, is a recent gift of the artist’s work to the public collections of the BNF. The title of the exhibition, Entre impressionnisme et japonisme (between impressionism and Japanism) is slightly misleading as Rivière was [...]
Lewis Carrol, Alice Liddell as a beggar, 1859
Although Controverses (Controversies) displays a huge variety of subject matter, the main polemics surrounding the photographs on display come down to violence, sex or fraud in some form. That is not to say that the exhibition is one-dimensional – far from it. The idea is to display photographs [...]
Beneath the Roses is an unnerving exhibition of uncannily filmic photographs. Set in suburban American landscapes and interiors each photo could be a film still, a snapshot representing a dark and complex story.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled (Esther Terrace), 2006
Light plays an important role in creating the ominous scenes – the outdoor shots are set against atmospheric [...]