Né dans la rue (‘Born in the Streets’) is a celebration of street art. The main room showcases the work of contemporary artists, who started out as graffiti artists or are influenced by its style. I have decried exhibition organiser’s desire to commission graffiti before (here) – once again these large scale works loose their [...]
La Description d’Egypte is a small show next to the hugely over-the-top tomb of Napoleon (ridiculous considering he was such a small man) under the dome of Invalides. Celebrating 200 years since the publication, the exhibition displays engravings from the great book, La Description d’Egypte, a result of Napoleon’s expedition to Egypte (1798 – 1801). [...]
The Maison Européene de la Photographie’s summer programme includes a couple of small exhibitions which offer contemporary interpretations of classical beauty. Capturing quintessentially academic subjects (nudes and architecture respectively), both Alair Gomes and Gabriele Basilico’s photos offer up the tradition of the beau ideal from a fresh contemporary angle.
Quite literally in Alair Gomes’s case. Gomes [...]
Vraoum! is a wonderful combination of early comic strip greats, commercial successes – Hergé, Disney, Popeye, Manga – and contemporary pieces inspired by the colourful fantasy realm of comic strips and cartoons. Many of the classic comic strips on show are from private collections. Despite their undeniable mastery and influence, the presence of comic strip [...]
To inaugurate the opening of the newly restored Frigidarium (bathing house) of the Musée Cluny Le bain et le miroir takes us on a scientific, archaeological and aesthetic journey through bathing and beautifying rituals of antiquity and the middle ages.
In the space of the frigidarium, glass cases display artifacts from antiquity – mirrors, make-up boxes, [...]
Richard Bellia’s photos of cult music icons provide a contrast to the classic, quality clothes chez Agnes B. Taken from his book, Un Oeil sur la Musique, Bellia’s black and white photos represent the MTV generation’s most cherished stars: Bowie, Iggy, Cobain and Smith….
Richard Bellia, Richard Smith 1985, courtesy of the artist
Bellia has been documenting [...]
Stages, organised by the Lance Armstrong Foundation to raise awareness and money in the fight against cancer, brings together the work of 30 contemporary artists, created especially for the show.
The exhibition works surprisingly well considering its diverse and atypical themes: cycling, cancer, colour… In one room Shepard Fairley and Eric White respond to personal encounters [...]