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What's on in December in Paris ?
This exhibition reveals a new, unexpected face of Versailles as a place of scientific inquiry in its most various forms: the Hall of Mirrors electricity experiment, Marley Machine on the banks of the Seine, burning mirror solar power demonstration, etc. It brings together works and instruments from the old royal collections, spectacular achievements of beauty and intelligence, for the first time.
The Queen's Enchantments in Versailles
In the delightful hamlet Marie-Antoinette had built to bring her rustic dreams to life, the Queen gathered her favourites and staged refined, elegant fêtes where courtiers tried to seduce her with fireworks, trying to outdo each other's wittiness and inventiveness.
Fireworks, water effects and characters made of light glitter on the pond between the Dairy and the Mill, and illuminate the Queen's splendid houses for three exceptional nights!
An exhibition of great wealth tracing back the artistic development of one of the most illustrious fathers of impressionism: Claude Monet.
Monet, the most celebrated representative of the Impressionist movement, painted for more than sixty years: landscapes (On the Bank of the Seine, Étretat, Belle-Île…), figures, still lifes (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe). These masterpieces, rarely loaned by the Orsay Museum, form a unique ensemble within the exhibition, alongside other paintings from major foreign collections. In 1890, Monet acquired his now famous property at Giverny. His art moved on, especially with the large format Water Lilies series. He invented his own personal path, reconciling a deep attachment to nature with evocations of his own poetic universe.
Bringing together 200 paintings, it will feature exclusive loans from countries all over the world including Australia, Brazil, USA, the Netherlands, and Russia.
Between 15 October 2010 and 30 January 2011 the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is devoting an enormous retrospective to American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of his birth, this is the first Basquiat exhibition ever on this scale in France. Of mixed Puerto Rican and Haitian descent, Basquiat was born in Brooklyn in 1960 and died of a drug overdose in New York in 1988, aged twenty-seven. He was part of the generation of graffiti artists who burst onto the New York scene in the late 1970s.
The Incas dominated the Andes for a century (1400-1553). When they settled in the Cuzco région in the 13th or 14th centuries, ten civilizations had already lived there. The Incas were therefore the inheritors of sophisticated traditions, elaborated over four thousand years.
Regarded as being the sun’s « sweat », the suprême being in the animist Inca panthéon, gold was strongly linked to religious rituals. Since the Inca emperor was the living embodiment of the sun, gold was equally prominent in the représentation of power. It was a means of sociak différentiation for the élite and an indispensable part of the deceased’s funeral trousseau. Gold was used in a wide range of objects, all of them présent in the exhibition : crowns, diadems, earrings, nose ornements, pins, ritual cups, pectoral ornaments, necklaces, figurines or onrments. Objects made from silver, the métal linked to the moon goddess, were also very prévalent in the Andes and High quality Works are also shown.