Yves Saint Laurent, who has been featured in many movies over the past few years and became a remarkable person in the film industry, is the king of the mode style fashion of France. A museum dedicated to him open...

PALAIS DE TOKYO

2017.3.23　 Text: Victor Moreno

Conceived in the first place to house the Musée National d’Art Moderne in 1937 in Paris, Palais de Tokyo is an space dedicated to modern and contemporary art becoming the largest center of contemporary art in Europe, ...

FONDATION CARTIER POUR L’ART CONTEMPORAIN

2016.10.20　 Text: Victor Moreno

Happy 32nd Anniversary! Who does not love Paris? Constantly on the spotlight, this European capital is home to some of the most important art venues in the world. At the Southside of the Seine river and located on ...

FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON

2015.3.26　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

It is the new must-see place in Paris. After getting off at Les Sablons, an underground station on Line 1, walking for about 10 minutes following the map, you arrive at Bois de Boulogne, a big green luscious park -...

ATELIER COURREGES

2014.1.30　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

The new atelier of French fashion brand Courreges reopened in October 2013 in Pau, a small city in the south of France, after finishing their long-time renovations. This inauguration announces the revival of the brand...

LOUVRE-LENS

2013.5.29　 Text: Valerie Douniaux

The Louvre-Lens is the first step of the Global Louvre project, before the opening of another branch of the world-famous museum in Abu Dhabi. After the launching of an annex of the Pompidou Centre in Metz, this is the...

LE FRESNOY

2012.8.22　 Text: Valérie Douniaux

Located in Tourcoing, near Lille, in the North of France, Le Fresnoy is conveniently settled at the crossroads of Brussels, Paris or London. From 1905 to the beginning of the 1970’s, it was a very popular entertainmen...

THE LAM (LILLE METROPOLE MUSEUM OF MODERN, CONTEMPORARY AND OUTSIDER ART)

2012.6.30　 Text: Valérie Douniaux

The LaM (Lille Metropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art), is not exactly situated in Lille, but in the close-by city of Villeneuve d’Ascq. It was created in 1983, to host the Masurel donation, an exce...

CNEAI=

2012.2.18　 Text: Shotaro Okada

News in Paris flows gradually. Unless you are a curious person, it is easy to miss it. One thing I didn’t miss was Cneai=, which organizes and sponsors art and cultural activities in Paris, though it was only by chanc...

LE LABORATOIRE

2008.11.14　 Text: Kana Sunayama

Nowadays, regardless of the size, many contemporary art spaces are opening up all over the world. Each space tries to display their own distinctive features making a great fuss about their relevance and style to the l...

MAC/VAL

2007.12.3　 Text: Kana Sunayama

The first contemporary museum located in the suburbs of Paris, MAC/VAL (Musee d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne) is now commemorating its 2nd anniversary. In Japan you may imagine a quiet residential area when...

LA MAISON ROUGE

2004.9.3　 Text: Linlee Allen

Step into a die-hard collector's lifestyle why don't you? August in Paris. Same conversation, different day. "Where did/will you go on vacation this summer?" Blah, blah, blah. Quite possibly the most boring m...