Paris Muse

In singing, film and verse, declared dead hundreds of times, yet always resurgent, the “bohemian” is part of our modern myth. Through more than 200 works, from Turner to Corot, Courbet and Manet, Van Gogh to Matisse, the exhibition explores the profound transformation of the artist starting in the mid-nineteenth century, and the the fundamental contribution of nomadic peoples in the construction of European identity.

Showing September 26 – January 14 at the Grand Palais

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Ever since the Renaissance, artists and naturalists have observed animals closely and represented them as accurately as they could. Nevertheless, naturalism ends where the norm and morality begin: various ethical and aesthetic criteria were established which influenced the artists’ point of view. There is extraordinary variety in the ways the same animal is represented. They reveal our fascination and curiosity for a world whose diversity is far from fully explored. Through a set of major works, the exhibition looks at the relationships that artists, often great painters and sculptors, have developed with animals.

Beauté animale, the exhibition, is showing at the Grand Palais until July 7

To close in music Monumenta by Daniel Buren at the Grand Palais, We Love Art, in association with The Creators Project, invites you to participate in Bal Blanc under the huge skylight of the Grand Palais and the heart of the artist’s work.

The public is invited to dress only in white to immerse themselves deep into the polychromy of the work that Daniel Buren entitled “Eccentric (s), work in situ”, for live music and movement experience in color.

When: Thursday, June 21, 2012

Where: Grand Palais

Dress code: White

For nearly twenty years, Choi has made the photographic prints of Helmut Newton.

The Helmut Newton exhibition at the Grand Palais runs until June 17.

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.

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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