OFFF FESTIVAL 2010
Aim High, Keep Moving! OFFF celebrated its tenth anniversary at La Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris by the end of June 2010. In the past ten years, the festival experienced 11 different editions, 10 in Euro...
Aim High, Keep Moving! OFFF celebrated its tenth anniversary at La Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris by the end of June 2010. In the past ten years, the festival experienced 11 different editions, 10 in Euro...
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...
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 ...
Contemporary art exhibition boom in the historical buildings in France? Museum, 2007 © David LaChapelle Lately, France is absorbed in having contemporary art exhibitions at historical buildings such as Jeff Ko...
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...
An ultra modern temple. The world of Maison Martin Margiela. What awakens you by a proper noun, Martin Margiela? Margiela's "white". Margiela's "cotton". Margiela's "trompe-l'oil". It's amazing to realize to see tha...
Archives from the heart. I still remember clearly the exhibition of Christian Boltanski held in Marian Goodman gallery Paris in 2005. I can also recall vividly the impact of the moment when I entered the pitch-black ...
Sankai Juku Japan Tour, the first time in two and a half years. Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center was enveloped in complete darkness. The Sankai Juku Japan Tour, which was the first time in two and a half years, w...
The way to Paris Fashion Week is much more severe than one would like to expect. The designers, have to make their brain something of a black hall in order to earn the title as one of the 90 maison de couture. The mod...
The Exhibition of the Francois Pinault Collection was held in France where it seemed that everyone have a slight disdain for the man. Francois Pinault is a billionaire French businessman and owns the PPR Group, which...
For contemporary Paris art scene, autumn is not about eating, reading, or arts, but it's about buy and sell arts. Because autumn is the season of FIAC! FIAC used to be held under tents along quai Branly for 12 year...
Nicolas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans, the co-directors of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris are celebrating their departure by a significant exhibition titled 'Notre Histoire...' (Our History). The Palais de Tokyo opened on ...
"Poetry Is Not Over" reunites young international artists who find or suggest poetry or a kind of oneiric expression in the algorithms, the codes, the complexities of the networks, or more generally the aesthetics of ...
The 32nd edition of the FIAC opened on Wednesday October 5th and closed on Monday October 10th. I was invited by Eric Dupont Gallery at the professional day, so thank you Eric, and thank you Sarah (his beautiful assis...
Founded in 1984, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris is dedicated to supporting and facilitating the development of contemporary art forms and to fostering awareness of these arts. Last year, for...
Since its opening in 2002, the Palais de Tokyo has quickly established itself at the forefront of contemporary culture, and is now considered as "the place to be" for all the art-lovers and the fashion junkies. Thi...
The snow may be falling in Paris but that definitely hasn't affected the heat rising from the colette first-floor gallery space. Having kickstarted 2005 with a collection of photographs taken in the Arizona desert by ...