Vito Acconci, Three Relashionship studies, 1970, © Coll. Centre Pompidou
In an ingenious ruse to air some of their collection, the Musée national d’art moderne / Centre de création industrielle (Centre Pompidou) is collaborating with the Musée Rodin to bring us The Body as Sculpture, a show that shakes up a visit [...]
Annika Eriksson, Video still
Le temps du corps…et en corps is a selection of Swedish video art that mystifies and delights. The different artists’ work is loosely connected through the theme of “the body”, which recurs in different ways throughout the pieces. They are also linked by their flirtation with the absurd. As is often the [...]
In addition to the Maison Européene de la Photo’s new spring shows, a couple of off-the-beaten-track galleries offer new perspectives in contemporary photography.
The Russian Tea Room Gallery, specialising in contemporary Russian photography, juxtaposes the work of Russian photographer Igor Savchenko and that of Japanese photographer Shunsuke Ohno in its new show Moderato.
Savchenko’s unpopulated black and [...]
Russian art and buyers make themselves known on the international scene.
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It is also “l’année de la Russie” in France in 2010, find the program of cultural events here.
Elliott Erwitt, Felix, Gladys and Rover, New York City, 1974
Elliott Erwitt, photographer and member of Magnum photos since 1953, has chosen his favourite images, or “personal best”, for this show. Anonymous children, picture postcard compositions (including a Frenchman with a child, baguette and beret on a bike) and a mourning Jackie Kennedy are just a [...]
The new shows of two artists at Galerie Yvon Lambert’s challenge the way we see, and engage with, modern life.
Micheal Brown’s first solo show in Europe consists of an installation of cheap-looking broken lawn chairs, highly polished cans, broke mirrors and pornographic imagery. Combining readymade elements and deceptively manipulated materials, Brown comments on the easy [...]
The Razzle Dazzle of thinking presents the work of American conceptual artist Elaine Sturtevant. Sturtevant has built a career around appropriation – copying Warhol’s Flowers in the 1960s and continuing with duplicates of, or references to, some of the major figures in contemporary art.
As a whole this show is slightly incoherent, mixing references to modern [...]
Paris inondé is an educational and fascinating glimpse into the Great Flood that submerged Paris in 1910. Photographs, documents, postcards and press are brought together in thematic sections to relay the freakish meteorological events of January 1910 (yes, more extreme than the current flurries of snow and sleet).
20 000 buildings were flooded but with only [...]
Théodore Géricault, Les trois crânes, Musée Girodet, Montargis
Just when I thought I had seen enough death in art in recent shows, the Musée Maillol opens an exhibition to trump them all.
C’est la Vie! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst takes us on an alternative journey through the history of art – a journey through the [...]
Van Gogh, Self-portrait as an artist, January 1888
The real Van Gogh is hard to pin down, so many and various are the accounts and interpretations of the artist’s life. Famous for cutting off his own ear and dying penniless only to achieve inordinate posthumous fame and recognition, Van Gogh is the ideal incarnation of “the [...]