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MURAKAMI IN VERSAILLES
What is “beauty”? Murakami’s exhibit has created a heated discussion. Murakami first heard about Versailles from a comic about the French Revolution, “The Rose of Versailles” by Riyoko Ikeda which is very famil...
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PARIS RIVE GAUCHE / RIVE DROITE
For contemporary art lovers who are not collectors, the usual spots for enjoying artwork are limited to museums, galleries, and art fairs. But from September 9th till the 25th, Paris's inaccessible art scene opened it...
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LYON BIENNALE 2009
A biennale that was once thought to be impossible carried it through. Commemorating its 10th anniversary, the original plan for Biennale de Lyon was to have it led by the doyen curator, Catherine David, until she s...
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FIAC 2009
The most expensive contemporary art fair. The recent art fairs are always talked about quantifying its degree of success, and FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain) for this year is one of those art fairs w...
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BORN IN THE STREETS – GRAFFITI
In March 2008, one of the pioneering graffiti art collector, Alain Dominique Gallizia made an exhibition "TAG" from his own collections in Grand Palais. It attracted over 80,000 people in 5 weeks, and introduced them ...
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LA FORCE DE L’ART 02
Better than last one? The failed La Force de l’Art 02. As a triennial art event first started in 2006, proposed by Dominique de Villepin, the Prime Minister of France at that time, aiming "to put on stage contempor...
