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Supercross at Paris-Bercy  - From Friday, November 8 2013 to Sunday, November 10 2013

Supercross at Paris-Bercy
Supercross and FMX!

It's already been more than 20 years since the crowds first started coming to Bercy for the Supercross competition, which continues to attract both professionals and amateur enthusiasts.

Every evening there is a full show, after which...
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Designer's Days  - From Tuesday, June 4 2013 to Sunday, June 9 2013

Designer's Days
Paris, capital of design!

This event offers a journey through the world of design in Paris.
Take the opportunity to glimpse what goes on behind the scenes in this profession of famous names and many faces, in this industry which is constantly changing.
All...
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Pestacles: Children's Festival at the Parc Floral  - From Wednesday, June 5 2013 to Wednesday, September 25 2013

Pestacles: Children's Festival at the Parc Floral
Fun for kids!

Calling all little ones, here's the opportunity for them to have some fun!
The Pestacles are back this summer, with theatre, puppets and an interactive show… what could be better?!
Don't miss the games areas, rare plants and of course the sweets...
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Chopin Festival in Paris  - From Saturday, June 15 2013 to Sunday, July 14 2013

Chopin Festival in Paris
All about Chopin.

The Chopin Society, founded in 1911, honours the memory and work of the Franco-Polish composer with various events such as concerts, conferences, trips and readings.

It also organises the Chopin Festival in Paris, which has...
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Passionately Mozart, Classical Radio Festival, concert  - Sunday, June 16 2013

Passionately Mozart, Classical Radio Festival, concert
Music for everyone!

The first classical music festival for the general public takes place in the mythical Olympia hall, featuring the best performers of the genre.

Over the course of four concerts highlighting four themes, the public will be spoiled...
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Solidays Festival  - From Friday, June 28 2013 to Sunday, June 30 2013

Solidays Festival
Music and Solidarity.

This festival's mission statement is to support the fight against Aids. The organisers aim to raise awareness about the threat of this debilitating disease which is still very much an issue throughout the world today. All the performers appear on stage out...
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Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans March (Gay Pride)  - Saturday, June 29 2013

Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans March (Gay Pride)
A rainbow party in the streets of Paris.

Previously known as Gay Pride, the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual) Pride March is the national anti-homophobic event that promotes equality and pride for people of the LGBT community. The Pride March originated in...
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Festival Days Off  - From Monday, July 1 2013 to Tuesday, July 9 2013

Festival Days Off
Get into holiday mode!

In the month of July, it is traditionally the cultural "off" season: everything closes and is replaced by the summer festivals. This is an opportunity to turn "off" for the holidays!
The Cité de la Musique and the Salle Pleyel take...
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Scènes d'été at La Villette  - From Saturday, July 6 2013 to Sunday, August 25 2013

Scènes d'été at La Villette
Sunny beats in the park.

The Scènes d'été festival will be a riot of colour and music this summer, thanks to a great selection of some of the best current artists in world music.

At the weekends in the Parc de la Villette<...
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Festival We Love Green  - From Friday, September 6 2013 to Sunday, September 8 2013

Festival We Love Green
Go green.

Dates to be confirmed.

Here comes the new edition of this unique festival, one which is a symbol of the desire to change felt by a whole generation!

We Love Green is a heartfelt call to attention and at the same time a move to...
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Cheveux chéris, exhibition  - From Tuesday, September 18 2012 to Sunday, July 14 2013

Cheveux chéris, exhibition
The art of hair.

At the intersection of anthropology, the history of ancient and contemporary art, fashion and manners, the exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris examines individual issues of intimacy and sociability through the universal theme of...
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Interventions on the Building. John Giorno, exhibition  - From Friday, September 28 2012 to Sunday, September 1 2013

Interventions on the Building. John Giorno, exhibition
The writing's on the wall.

John Giorno was a major figure in the New York underground of the 1960s and in the Beat Generation, where he nurtured his "cut up" style poetry and composed his first sound poems. Aiming to make poetry accessible to all, in 1965 he founded ...
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Interventions on the Building. Takahiro Iwasaki, exhibition : Regard, object, symbol  - From Friday, September 28 2012 to Sunday, September 1 2013

Interventions on the Building. Takahiro Iwasaki, exhibition : Regard, object, symbol
Stranger than fiction.

Takahiro Iwasaki (born in 1975) makes sculptures from thread, tape, hair, and dust collected from an exhibition space. They are thus extremely fragile by nature, and their complexity requires a certain dexterity. Simple materials are transformed into chains...
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Interventions on the Building. Bernard Aubertin, exhibition: Five Fire Paintings  - From Friday, September 28 2012 to Sunday, September 1 2013

Interventions on the Building. Bernard Aubertin, exhibition: Five Fire Paintings
Lighting the fire!

For this exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Bernard Aubertin has created a series of "fire paintings".

In 1957 Bernard Aubertin was to meet Yves Klein in Paris. It was after this meeting that he made his first monochrome work in red. In...
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Leonardo da Vinci projects, drawings, machines, exhibition  - From Tuesday, October 23 2012 to Sunday, August 18 2013

Leonardo da Vinci projects, drawings, machines, exhibition
Behind Da Vinci's codes.

Universally recognised as a talented painter, Leonardo da Vinci was also an accomplished engineer, scientist, set designer, musician and courtier. Regarded as the archetypal Renaissance man, his insatiable curiosity was rivalled only by his creative...
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Dinosaurs, larger than life, exhibition  - From Wednesday, October 24 2012 to Monday, June 24 2013

Dinosaurs, larger than life, exhibition
Giant herbivores.

In autumn 2012, the Natural History Museum of Paris opened its sensational exhibition devoted to the world's largest dinosaurs, the sauropods.

These giant dinosaurs were herbivores, reaching up to 40 metres in length and a...
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In the Palm of the Hand: The Medal in France in the 19th and 20th century, exhibition  - From Tuesday, December 11 2012 to Sunday, June 9 2013

In the Palm of the Hand: The Medal in France in the 19th and 20th century, exhibition
Tiny pieces of history.

During the nineteenth century, the art of the medal took on an ever growing status within French artistic life. The Salons devoted a separate section to medals, and from the 1890s, under conservationist Léonce Bénédite, the Musée du Luxembourg (an...
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The Spoliation of Jews a state policy (1940-1944), exhibition  - From Wednesday, January 30 2013 to Tuesday, September 10 2013

The Spoliation of Jews a state policy (1940-1944), exhibition
The French economy against the Jews.

From 1933, the boycotting of Jewish-owned businesses and the expropriation of their property was to increase rapidly. This policy, with a legal basis, was widespread. It extended within the territories occupied by the Reich.

The French...
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I dreamed of the beautiful. Félix Ziem, paintings and watercolours, exhibition  - From Thursday, February 14 2013 to Sunday, August 4 2013

I dreamed of the beautiful. Félix Ziem, paintings and watercolours, exhibition
The romantic touch of the travelling painter.

French painter Felix Ziem (1821-1911) was a nomadic artist, unclassifiable, eccentric and romantic. A great traveller, a close friend of the Barbizon painters, an admirer of both Claude Lorrain and Turner, he occupies a...
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Marie Laurencin (1883 - 1956), exhibition  - From Thursday, February 21 2013 to Sunday, June 30 2013

Marie Laurencin (1883 - 1956), exhibition
Talented 20th century painter.

From February, the Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris pays homage to Marie Laurencin, one of the most famous female painters of the twentieth century.

This exhibition is the first retrospective of Laurencin to be held in a French...
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Chagall between War and Peace, exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum  - From Thursday, February 21 2013 to Sunday, July 21 2013

Chagall between War and Peace, exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum
Life experience.

From February 2013, the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris presents an exhibition dedicated to the artist Marc Chagall.

Chagall died in 1985, at almost 100 years of age, having lived through almost the entire twentieth century. This unconventional...
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Alabaster Tears, the Mourners of the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, exhibition  - From Wednesday, February 27 2013 to Monday, June 3 2013

Alabaster Tears, the Mourners of the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, exhibition
Sculptures on tour.

In 2010 during the renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, the Mourners from the tomb of John the Fearless set off on an international tour, ending at the Cluny Museum. The 39 figures of the funeral procession of the deceased prince are...
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Paris Haute Couture, exhibition  - From Saturday, March 2 2013 to Saturday, July 6 2013

Paris Haute Couture, exhibition
Capital fashion.

Haute couture was born in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century and today Paris remains the capital of high end fashion. With the exhibition entitled Paris Haute Couture, the city of Paris offers a tribute to this fantasy world which is...
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The Angel of the Bizarre. Dark Romanticism from Füssli to Max Ernst, exhibition  - From Tuesday, March 5 2013 to Sunday, June 9 2013

The Angel of the Bizarre. Dark Romanticism from Füssli to Max Ernst, exhibition
The shadowy side of Romanticism.

In the 1930s, writer and Italian art historian Mario Praz (1896-1982) highlighted for the first time the dark side of Romanticism, thus describing a wide spectrum of artistic creation, from 1760-1770. These works explore the dark side,...
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Music and Cinema: the Marriage of the Century? Exhibition  - From Tuesday, March 19 2013 to Sunday, August 18 2013

Music and Cinema: the Marriage of the Century? Exhibition
Emotion in music.

What would films be without the magic and emotion conveyed by the music? This exhibition aims to reveal the importance of this meeting between two arts. Intended for all audiences, film buffs as well as music lovers, this exhibition takes the opportunity...
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Eugène Boudin on his travels, exhibition  - From Friday, March 22 2013 to Monday, July 22 2013

Eugène Boudin on his travels, exhibition
A new vision of nature.

In spring, the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris hosts the first Parisian retrospective to be devoted to Eugène Boudin since the late nineteenth century.

Known for his seascapes and beach scenes, Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) was one of the first French...
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The Spencer and Marlene Hays Collection, exhibition, Musée d'Orsay  - From Tuesday, March 26 2013 to Sunday, June 30 2013

The Spencer and Marlene Hays Collection, exhibition, Musée d'Orsay
An exceptional collection.

A couple of American art lovers, particularly appreciative of French art, assembled an exceptional collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century works over some decades.

The friendships forged between the collectors and the...
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Napoleon and Europe, exhibition at Les Invalides  - From Wednesday, March 27 2013 to Sunday, July 14 2013

Napoleon and Europe, exhibition at Les Invalides
Napoleonic domination in Europe.

The Army Museum in association with the Kunst und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn presents a French version of the exhibition Napoleon und Europa: Traum und Trauma.

Initiated by Bénédicte Savoy, the theme of the exhibition...
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German Thought and Painting, from Friedrich to Beckmann, 1800-1939, exhibition  - From Thursday, March 28 2013 to Monday, June 24 2013

German Thought and Painting, from Friedrich to Beckmann, 1800-1939, exhibition
Prussian beauty and creative thought.

This exhibition at the Louvre Museum invites visitors to linger over two hundred works that reflect the major themes of German thought, between 1800 and 1939. Thus, works by artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Klee Read more about German Thought and Painting, from Friedrich to Beckmann, 1800-1939, exhibition

Dynamo, A Century of Light and Movement in Art, 1913-2013, exhibition at the Grand Palais  - From Wednesday, April 10 2013 to Monday, July 22 2013

Dynamo, A Century of Light and Movement in Art, 1913-2013, exhibition at the Grand Palais
See the light.

In the National Galleries of the Grand Palais, from the spring, the public will discover a large exhibition entitled Dynamo, A Century of Light and Movement in Art, 1913-2013.The curators aim to show how, over the last fifteen years, many artists have...
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The Macchiaioli 1850-1877. Italian impressionnists ?, exhibition  - From Wednesday, April 10 2013 to Monday, July 22 2013

The Macchiaioli 1850-1877. Italian impressionnists ?, exhibition
Breathing new life into Italian painting.

The Macchiaioli artistic movement is being honoured at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris and the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid in 2013.

They constituted a rebellious group of artists in Florence in the year 1855....
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The Enchanted World of Jacques Demy, exhibition  - From Wednesday, April 10 2013 to Sunday, August 4 2013

The Enchanted World of Jacques Demy, exhibition
A fascinating glimpse.

Designed by the French Cinematheque, the Jacques Demy exhibition presents film clips alongside costumes, photographs, paintings, drawings and sculptures created by artists who were influenced by the director (such as Jean Cocteau, David...
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Ron Mueck, exhibition  - From Tuesday, April 16 2013 to Sunday, September 29 2013

Ron Mueck, exhibition
Disturbingly human.

From April, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art invites the Australian sculptor Ron Mueck to present his works. Solo exhibitions of the artist's work are rare in Europe, this is the first since the very successful 2005 exhibition at the Read more about Ron Mueck, exhibition

Giotto e compagni, exhibition at the Louvre Museum  - From Thursday, April 18 2013 to Monday, July 15 2013

Giotto e compagni, exhibition at the Louvre Museum
The precursor to the Renaissance.

The undisputed king of pre-Renaissance Italian art, Giotto (c. 1267-1337) left behind a large body of work which marked a new era in Western painting. The Tuscan painter was responsible for the frescoes in the Church of Santa Croce in Read more about Giotto e compagni, exhibition at the Louvre Museum

Slovenian Impressionists and their time (1890-1920), exhibition  - From Thursday, April 18 2013 to Saturday, July 13 2013

Slovenian Impressionists and their time (1890-1920), exhibition
Avant-garde painting in Slovenia.

As Slovenia began to open to modernity in the late 1880s, it still looked to Austria, but at the same time maintained a strong sense of national identity. In 1891 Slovenian painter Anton Ažbe founded the Academy in Munich. It was here that...
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N°5 Culture Chanel, exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo  - From Sunday, May 5 2013 to Wednesday, June 5 2013

N°5 Culture Chanel, exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo
The iconic scent.

From early May, as part of the Guest Program cycle, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris will host an exhibition entitled No. 5. Culture Chanel. Built on a subtle play of correspondences, No. 5 Culture Chanel decrypts the famous...
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Simon Hantaï, exhibition at the Pompidou Centre  - From Wednesday, May 22 2013 to Monday, September 9 2013

Simon Hantaï, exhibition at the Pompidou Centre
Five years later.

Simon Hantai passed away five years ago, in 2008. From May 2013, the Centre Pompidou in Paris is to pay a special tribute to him with a retrospective exhibition.

A French painter of Hungarian origin, Simon Hantai (1922 - 2008) was equated with the...
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The new events in Paris

Redevelopment of the first floor of the Eiffel Tower: visit  - From Wednesday, February 1 2012 to Tuesday, December 31 2013

Redevelopment of the first floor of the Eiffel Tower: visit
Like walking on air.

The Eiffel Tower is being revamped and will feature a brand new first floor. The public can avail of lots of new attractions and enjoy an even more impressive renovated monument!

The aim of this redevelopment is to make the Eiffel Tower<...
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Rodin, Flesh, Marble, exhibition  - From Friday, June 8 2012 to Sunday, September 1 2013

Rodin, Flesh, Marble, exhibition
Breathing life into marble.

During the renovation of the Rodin Museum in Paris, the temporary exhibition space at La Chapelle hosts the exhibition entitled Rodin, flesh, marble. Fifty marble statues and a dozen models in clay and plaster are...
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The Rodin Museum at Night, shows  - From Wednesday, September 5 2012 to Wednesday, June 5 2013

The Rodin Museum at Night, shows
Inspired by Rodin.

The Rodin Museum presents a series of theatrical events at night every first Wednesday of the month. The museum has entrusted the artistic direction to the director and actor Charles Gonzales.

In the first part of the season, the...
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