A neat little animated music video from the French band Ödland.
Ödland, Sankta Lucia
May 18th, 2012Paris museums open tomorrow, May 17
May 16th, 2012Tomorrow is Ascension Day, a public holiday in France, and that means the municipal museums in Paris are closed. Not to worry, however, as many Parisian museums will be open, to wit:
Musée du Moyen-Age – Thermes et hôtel de Cluny
Musée national Eugène Delacroix
Musée des Arts asiatiques-Guimet
Musée de l’Orangerie des Tuileries
Centre d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration
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Allo Allo {Deux Américains à Paris}
May 10th, 2012Monumenta 2012 at Grand Palais opens
May 10th, 2012
An artistic encounter on an ambitious scale, the annual Monumenta exhibition invites a well-known contemporary artist to create a work especially for the huge space inside the glass-roofed nave of the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition has so far featured Anselm Kiefer in 2007, Richard Serra in 2008, Christian Boltanski in 2010 and Anish Kapoor in 2011. It is Daniel Buren – one of the most highly recognized and honored artists, by both his peers and the public – who will take up the challenge in May and June 2012.
For practical information including map, prices & more on Grand Palais, click here.
About Daniel Buren:
Daniel Buren was born in 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. He has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries worldwide. Since 1972, he has participated four different times at Documenta in Kassel. The artist has been invited to the Venice Biennial more than ten times, where he was honored with the Golden Lion for the best pavilion in 1986. That same year he completed the work, “Les Deux Plateaux, sculpture in situ” at the Palais Royal in Paris. It was Buren’s first, of now more than eighty, official public works he has created around the world. He received several awards including the “International Award for the Best Artist” given in Stuttgart, Germany in 1991 and the “Grand Prix National de Peinture” in France in 1992. In 1990 the artist was honored as a “Living Treasure” in New Zealand for the country’s 150th anniversary. In 2002 Buren had a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and in 2005, he had a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Bio via suecrockford.com
All photos by Grand Palais & Daniel Buren
Multiversites Creatives exhibition at Pompidou
May 7th, 2012The neologism "multiversity" is explored in this exhibition, reflecting the diversity of creative worlds, leading visitors on a trail of experimentation, research and prospective studies in the fields of architecture, design, new technology and social innovation.
For price, map and more info head here: paris-museums.org/exhibitions_more.php?id=327
In the video below: The HygroScope, commissioned for the especially for the Pompidou and gets its debut during the Multiversites Creatives:
The project “HygroScope – Meteorosensitive Morphology” by Achim Menges in collaboration with Steffen Reichert explores a novel mode of responsive architecture based on the combination of material inherent behaviour and computational morphogenesis. The dimensional instability of wood in relation to moisture content is employed to construct a climate responsive architectural morphology. Suspended within a humidity controlled glass case the model opens and closes in response to climate changes with no need for any technical equipment or energy. Mere fluctuations in relative humidity trigger the silent movement. The material structure itself is the machine.
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Petit Palais video tour
May 6th, 2012C'est beau le Petit Palais la nuit par mairiedeparis
Displaying a notable collection of sculptures and paintings, the Petit Palais is a museum that was originally built along with the Grand Palais for the Universal Exposition of 1900. It now houses the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, and displays works of art by Rembrandt, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Greuze, Ingres, Géricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cezanne, Modigliani, Carpeaux, Maillol, Rodin and others.
List of exhibitions & practical information here.
