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Rendez-vous aux jardins garden festival in Paris from 31st May ? 2nd June 2013
Paris is rightly proud of its gardens – in September there’s the « Fête des Jardins » garden festival, and in May we have Rendez-vous aux jardins, inviting you to explore the city’s green spaces. This year (which also celebrates master garden planner Le Nôtre) the event is highlighting garden designers and their work(s of art), with [...]
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Jazz in Saint-Germain festival until 3rd June 2013
Lots of music at this year’s festival of course, but also a photo exhibition by Jason Langer (represented by the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff) at Les Deux Magots, and another by former winner of our PHPA photo project, Guillaume Amat at the Alcazar… There are over 30 concerts to enjoy over the next couple of weeks [...]
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Paris Opera ballet school exhibition from 4th June ? 31st August 2013
To celebrate the tricentennial of the Ecole française de danse, this exhibition in the library/museum of the Opéra Garnier will retrace its history, from 1713 under Louis XIV to the present day… The dance school, now based just outside Paris in Nanterre, is where 95% of all the dancers, solistes and corps de ballet train [...]
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A giant garden in the Grand Palais from 31st May ? 3rd June 2013
The event is called L’Art du Jardin, and it’s 13,000m² of creative gardens in the giant space inside the Grand Palais – should be spectacular!If you’ve never been inside the Grand Palais, then you’re in for a mega surprise. This huge greenhouse-style space is finally getting the nature it deserves The whole nave will be [...]
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Christian Tagliavini exhibition at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff from 23rd May ? 12th July 2013
After the incredible success of his series 1503 inspired by Renaissance paintings, Christian Tagliavini is back with Carte, mixing laser-cut card and Photoshopped photos to astonishing effect. A lot of care goes into Christian Tagliavini’s work – finely-cut detail, careful composition, depth, combinations of tone and colour, all mixed with a hint of mystery, exacerbated [...]
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Tea With Nefertiti exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe until 8th September 2013
Created by the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, this exhibitions encourages you to be more critical about the presentation and formation of a collection of art, by exploring the complex relations that exist between the works, the artists and the institutions showing them… The way that a piece of art is presented changes [...]
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Oscar Niemeyer / Brasília exhibition at the French Communist Part headquarters until 15th June 2013
The venue might sound strange, but you’d be wrong to miss this exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Brazilian capital (erm, three years few years late) and the extraordinary architecture of Oscar Niemeyer (who died last December aged 104 ans), especially as the venue is also one of Niemeyer’s masterpieces… The [...]
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Solidays Festival from 28th-30th June 2013
For its 15th anniversary, the Solidays festival has 80 concerts on offer and a lot, lot more, with all profits going to help combat AIDS. Here’s all the info… You could call it the most useful music festival in the Paris region – Solidays is back with a greta line-up (again!), and more to be [...]
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Museums at Night in Paris, Saturday 18th May 2013
Imagine all the museums of Paris, open late (until midnight at least), free to enter and packed full of special events. Well, it’s not a dream – it’s called La Nuit des Musées (Museums at Night), it’s on Saturday 18th May and there are some great things on offer… You know that Paris is packed [...]
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A Hotel Photo, An Artist?s View (PHPA) The photographer for April 2013 is Myriam Dao
Click the photo to read the accompanying text and see more work from Myriam Dao. PHPA on Facebook: facebook.com/Photo.Hotel.Photo.Auteur
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