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What’s going on Paris September 2016

30 Tuesday Aug 2016

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A rundown of events that are worth seeing:

 

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Charles Gleyre (1806-1874). The Reformed Romantic Member
from 10 May 2016 to 11 September 2016
1 rue de la Légion d’Honneur – 75007 Paris
Musée d’Orsay – Saint-Germain-des-Prés – 7e Arrondissement

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René Magritte. La Trahison des Images (The Treachery of Images)
Exhibition
from 21 September 2016 to 23 January 2017
Centre Pompidou – Place Georges Pompidou, Paris

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Barbie
Exhibition
from 10 March 2016 to 18 September 2016
Les Arts Décoratifs – Musée des Arts Décoratifs – 107 rue de Rivoli, Paris

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Fête de la gastronomie
Celebration
from 23 September 2016 to 25 September 2016
Paris et Ile-de-France – ., Paris

The Fête de la Gastronomie is all about food and cooking

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Jardins d’Orient (Gardens of the Orient)
from 19 April 2016 to 25 September 2016
1 rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard – 75005 Paris
Quartier Latin – 5e Arrondissement

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Edme Bouchardon, De sanguine et de marbre
Exhibition
from 16 September 2016 to 05 December 2016
Musée du Louvre – Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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European Heritage Days
Exhibition
from 17 September 2016 to 18 September 2016
Tout Paris

Discover or rediscover Parisian museums and monuments over one weekend. Lines can be long, so choose your favorite and arrive early!  Free.

 

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Oscar Wilde, l’impertinent absolu
Exhibition
from 28 September 2016 to 25 January 2017
Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux Arts de la ville de Paris – Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris

Homage to one of the most famous Francophile writers in English

 

 

 

April showers Paris? duck in here

06 Wednesday Apr 2016

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AT THE POMPIDOU

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From 6 April to 1 August 2016, the Pompidou Centre presents an exhibition on one of the 20th century’s leading artists: Paul Klee. This retrospective, featuring 250 works by this major figure of modern art, looks at the career of the artist through the prism of irony. Originating in early German Romanticism, this satire and detachment enabled Paul Klee to be creative and paint whilet at the same time denouncing the policies and ideologies of his time.

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The exhibition is organized around seven themes: ‘Les débuts satiriques (Satirical Beginnings)’, ‘Klee et le cubisme (Klee and Cubism)’, ‘Théâtre mécanique (Mechanical Theatre)’, ‘Klee et les constructivismes (Klee and Constructivism)’, ‘Regards en arrière (Looking Back)’, ‘Klee et Picasso (Klee and Picasso)’ and ‘Années de crise (Crisis Years)’.

11am – 9pm. Closed on Tuesday

€14. Reduced rate: €11. Free for children aged under 18.

Metro: Rambuteau (line 11), Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 and 11), Châtelet (lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14)
RER: Châtelet-les Halles (lines A, B and D)
Bus: 29, 38, 47, 75

AT QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM

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PERSONA: Now until November 13, 2016

At a time of major debates on transhumanism and artificial intelligence, the Quai Branly Museum presents an exhibition for understanding the mechanisms by which the cultures of the ancient to the most contemporary, “inject person” in objects.

The shaman who summons the spirits through a statuette taking the features of the gods, the child who has a passion for his security blanket, all those who converse with the pet, mutual friend of everyday life … everywhere, the boundaries between the human and all that surrounds it seem more and more permeable, raising broader questions of cohabitation between man, object, animal and machine.

Musée du quai Branly
37 Quai Branly
75007 Paris 7

Closed on Monday
Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday: 11:00 am-07:00 pm
Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 11:00 am-09:00 pm

Sailing with Frank Gehry’s masterpiece in Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton

22 Thursday Oct 2015

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It’s genius: daring and innovation punctuated by surprises. A visit to Foundation Louis Vuitton is hard to put into words, you have to climb all the levels, admire the views, the architectural lines, it’s exhilarating.  Frank Gehry’s mission was to “design in Paris a magnificent vessel symbolizing the cultural calling of France. He succeeded.  I’ll let my photos speak for themselves.

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Twelve glass sails play with the light and reflections of water from the basin in which the building stands. It’s a constant interplay of outside and inside and invites the visitor on a walk through a space of shifting perspectives to create a unique architectural experience.

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Fondation Louis Vuitton, 8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, 75116 Paris, adults 18 euros. Ipod touch devices can be borrowed from the reception desk.

Here are directions how to get there, it’s a little tricky by metro and requires some walking.

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The magnificent Musée d’Orsay

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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What I like most about this museum: they’re always upgrading it. They call their present project Nouvel Orsay. From their website: “We are going to try and establish a different rhythm in the presentation, whilst still respecting the various “schools” and great artistic personalities. We will try to bring out more meaning, and introduce more stimulating questions […] It has to be surprising, thought-provoking. Through this new interdisciplinary approach, presenting the works in relation to other disciplines, we are getting back to the essence of the original project.

I would like to create the best possible conditions for the visitor to view the works in a way that is well informed, unconstrained and imaginative. The works will have more space; the display cases will be less intrusive. They will invite dialogue with the artists all around them. The presentation will be more “polyphonic”; the categories will be less assertive”.

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Events you should mark:

Pierre Bonnard. Painting Arcadia
17 March – 19 July 2015

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Dolce Vita? From the Liberty to Italian Design (1900-1940)
14 April – 13 September 2015

Splendors and Miseries. Pictures of Prostitution in France (1850-1910)
22 September 2015 – 17 January 2016

Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers?
Second Part: 1914-1945
13 October 2015 – 24 January 2016

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Musée d’Orsay
1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 75007
Metro: line 12, to Solférino
RER: line C, to Musée d’Orsay
Bus: 24, 63, 68, 69, 73, 83, 84, 94

Paris Events: Looking ahead to May

25 Saturday Apr 2015

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Printemps des Rues – Street Art Festival

May 16 and 17, 2015

This annual festival celebrates the art of street performance alongside the Canal Saint Martin and throughout the 10th arrondissement – Hospital St. Louis, Square St. Lazare, Francoise Sagan Library. The wonderful performances and festive atmosphere make this a fantastic way to spend the day. If you’re in Paris this weekend be sure to pass through! More details here: http://www.leprintempsdesrues.com/le-programme/article/samedi-16-mai

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EUROPEAN NIGHT OF MUSEUMS

SATURDAY, MAY 16TH, 2015 / FREE ADMISSION

Cinema, theater, visual arts, literature, art demonstrations come together in this event sponsored by the City of Paris. Museums of science and technology, anthropology, civil and military history, and rural and industrial heritage will be opening their doors. It all happens at night, and it’s free.

At the Carnavalet Museum you can roam the gardens and take advantage of a concert  performed by pupils of the Academy of the Center of Paris. You will even meet emperor Napoleon and his court.  At Musée Cognacq-Jay texts of Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot will be read and put to music.

At the Museum of General Leclerc de Hauteclocque – Jean Moulin museum discover the art of line-engraving, the art of the postage stamp. Elsa Catelin and Pierre Bara will conduct short demonstrations at no charge.

At the Petit-Palais, museum of the fine arts, exhibits will include “The Slums of the Baroque” and “Carmen and Mélisande”. Actors will make paintings come alive with comedic touches.

At Museum of Modern Art there will be an open-air film show featuring “The Beautiful of Day of Luis Buñuel”, and “The Passion According to Carol Rama”. At the House of Balzac, the comedienne Jeanne Balibar will bewitch you with her velvet voice.  For details  http://nuitdesmusees.culturecommunication.gouv.fr

A reminder: May is a great month to stroll Paris with your No Worries Paris guide (of course). Planning ahead is always a good idea.

AT LAST: Musee Picasso is open for business

25 Saturday Oct 2014

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Free this weekend without reservations, the museum is finally opening its doors to the public. Saturday from 12h00 to 18h00 and Sunday 9h30 to 18h00. The lines no doubt will be long.

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The $60 million remodel has taken four years. Paintings are arranged in a spare style and no audio tour devices are offered. Five exhibition levels display some of the museum’s collection of 5,000 works, mostly owned by Picasso himself and donated by his heirs.

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MUSÉE PICASSO
5 rue de Thorigny
75003 Paris

Tuesday through Friday : 11h30 – 18h
Saturday and Sunday : 9h30 – 18h

MÉTRO
1 Saint-Paul
8 Saint-Sébastien-Froissart
8 Chemin Vert
 
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20 – 29 – 65 – 75 – 69 – 96

French Fashion: birth of the New Look

11 Friday Jul 2014

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The 1950s was haute couture’s golden age. A new exhibit at the Palais Galleria retraces the evolution of the female form through the decade 1947–1957: from the birth of the New Look to the death of Christian Dior and the advent of Yves Saint Laurent.

Petticoats, corolla skirts, pointed shoes, bright-coloured floral and striped prints, wasp-waist suits with straight skirts, strapless sheath dresses, cocktail dresses, rock crystal embroidery, Chanel’s straight lined simple suits: such was the couture of the fifties.

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Lucky you if you’re in Paris now or will be coming before November 2. Les années 50 : La mode en France, 1947-1957, is at Palais Galliera, 10, avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie, 16th arrondissement. Open Monday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm. Open Thursday evenings until 9pm.

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First two vintage fashion photos by Henry Clarke

“Paris 1900, City of Entertainment” exhibit: put this on your “MUST” list

11 Wednesday Jun 2014

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Petit Palais Exhibit 2014

Happening now at the Petit Palais is a Belle Époque Paris extravaganza inviting the public to relive the splendour of the French capital at the time when the Paris Exposition Universelle was heralding the arrival of the 20th century. More than ever before, Paris was seen throughout the world as a sparkling city of luxury with a sophisticated way of life. Over 600 works will plunge visitors into a charged atmosphere when talents from everywhere were converging on the French capital to train in studios, to exhibit in the salons and sell their wares in the expanding network of art galleries. On view are paintings, objets d’art, costumes, posters, photographs, films, furniture, jewelery and sculptures. The technical inventions, the cultural effervescence, and the sheer elegance of Parisian women will be staged and displayed as representative legends of that Paris whose image has been promoted in literature and the cinema throughout the world.

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Masterpieces by artists such as Gallé, Guimard, Majorelle, Mucha, Lalique, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Vuillard, alongside works by Gérôme, Bouguereau and Gervex…. and then there is the permanent collection to take in. Reserve half a day and kick off your shows when you take a break at one of their cafe tables in the courtyard.

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Late opening until 8pm on Thursdays for temporary exhibitions.
Admission: 11 euros
Metro: George V
http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/expositions/now

What you need to know in Paris for June

03 Tuesday Jun 2014

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Be hip to what’s going on, jot down the dates and make it happen:

Van Gogh/Artaud, The Man Suicided by Society, Musée d’Orsay, 11 March – 6 July 2014

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON at the Centre Pompidou, through June 9
http://www.centrepompidou.fr

Musée de l’Orangerie, Archives of the Dream, through June 30
www.musee-orangerie.fr

TATTOOISTS, TATTOOED, Quai Branly Museum, FROM 06 MAY 2014 TO 18 OCTOBER 2015
www.quaibranly.fr/en

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La Fête de la Musique, June 21
Rock music is usually held at the Place de la Republique, classical orchestras can be heard in the courtyard of the Palais Royal and indie bands at place Denfert-Rochereau. New groups and singers are performing on street corners and cafes around Paris. All concerts are free.
www.fetedelamusique.culture.fr

French Open
One of the four tennis Grand Slams, invites the best World players and is France’s biggest sporting events. Watching matches live is the ultimate fashion statement!
TIP: Book well in advance for a decent seat (buy your tickets from the French Open website). Leftover tickets can be bought at the stadium two weeks before the games start.
Roland Garros Stadium, June 2014

Summer SHOPPING Sales 2014 in Paris
From 25th June to 29th July 2014

Jazz festival in St Germain
Excellent Jazz performances held around the Left Bank of Paris
May to June 2014
www.festivaljazzsaintgermainparis.com

La Fete des voisins
French Mairies (courthouses), social clubs as well as individuals, organizes get-togethers parties all over France. In Paris you will certainly find many of them in June. You might even get invited to a party yourself.
http://www.immeublesenfete.com

Fête du Vélo
A celebration of urban riding with thousands of cyclists invited to meet up at various points in the suburbs and pedal to Paris, for a huge picnic in the city centre. To hire a bike or learn more about the Vélib bike scheme in Paris, visit http://www.velib.paris.fr.
www.feteduvelo.fr

Join the dance
Free performances, workshops for beginners and balls on the streets and squares of three districts in Paris.
Parc Bercy, animation Centre Les Halles-Marais, and the Bagnollet.
www.entrezdansladanse.fr

Art St-Germain-des-Prés
Almost 50 galleries get together to showcase their top artists, with red carpets spread outside each gallery. The galleries are mostly concentrated on rue de Seine, rue des Beaux-Arts, rue Visconti, rue Guénégaud and rue Mazarine. Open from 14.30 to 18.30
www.artsaintgermaindespres.com

Festival de St-Denis
The Gothic St-Denis basilica and other historic buildings in the neighbourhood host four weeks of top quality classical concerts.
http://www.festival-saint-denis.com

Paris Jazz Festival
Two months of free jazz weekends at the Parc Floral.
Parc Floral de Paris, Bois de Vincenes, 12eme
From June to July
www.parisjazzfestival.fr

Festival Chopin à Paris
In June & July, Orangerie de Bagatelle, Parc de Bagatelle, Bois de Boulogne, 16th arr.
From June to July
Candlelit evening recitals of Chopin’s works are held in the Bagatelle gardens.
www.frederic-chopin.com

and much much more to do in your No Worries Paris guidebook.

P.S.  Pack an umbrella in June, one of Paris’s rainiest months.

Paris’s treasured attic: Musée Carnavalet

27 Tuesday May 2014

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Located on the Right Bank in the Marais is a museum housing the history of Paris. The exterior with it’s dripping vines, roses and French formal gardens screams “photo op!” Digesting all there is to see in one visit (and it’s free) is almost an impossible feat, but worth a try.

As visitors wander through re-creations of rooms in styles ranging from the 17th to the 20th century, they can follow developments in Parisian interior design, immerse themselves in revolutionary history from the French Revolution to the Paris Commune, and also enter into the private lives of famous Parisians, imagining for example, the Marquise de Sévigné at her Chinese laquerwork desk penning her famous letters, or even Marcel Proust in his bedroom, dividing his time between his brass bed and his little table covered in pens, ink and notebook, peruse Eugène Atget and Henri Cartier-Bresson photographs.

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Georges Fouquet’s jewelry boutique, the Alphonse Mucha collection, primo examples of Art Nouveau, 2,600 paintings, 20,000 drawings, 300,000 engravings and 150,000 photographs, 2,000 modern sculptures and 800 pieces of furniture, thousands of ceramics, and the lavish Art Deco ballroom from the hôtel de Wendel, which was painted in 1925 by José-Maria Sert….exhausting yes, but one of the reasons you’ve come to Paris. It’s essence is here in “old-time”. The Louvre’s second little cousin.

Before your visit, my advice is to bone up on the city’s fascinating history, then tackle the 100 creaky floored rooms in bite sized pieces.

Musee Carnavalet

16 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75003 Paris, France
10:00 am – 6:00 pm, closed Mondays
metro St-Paul, Chemin Vert or Rambuteau
Bus lines: 29, 69, 76, 96
http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr

On the No Worries Paris guidebook route.