From January 8 to March 23, 2011, Studio 13/16 at the Pompidou Arts Centre presents Play it yourself !, an exhibition with a focus on the virtual world.

Studio 13/16 is the first place that has been exclusively designed for teenagers in a renowned cultural exhibition centre. It is the opportunity for them to experience the relationship between actual creation and video games through a series of activites in which they can take part as well as workshops and events.

The exhibition offers a unique line-up made of meetings with many different artists (visual artists, dancers, DJs, choreographers, video directors, …), workshosps to try out arts in all its forms, unique experiences focusing on interactive works, festive nights and weekends (Studio Party…).

It is the opportunity to understand video games practice, their processes and their designers by taking part in different sorts of activities: trying out video games programming, Game Boy music composition or making their own game console while being with artists who made these practices their creation tool !

Useful Information:

Location: Studio 13/16 (ground-1), Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris

Phone: +33 1 44 78 12 33

Dates : January 8 – March 23, 2011

Open on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 2 pm to 6 pm de 14h à 18 and during school holidays.

Free access

More information : Play It Yourself !

From October 12, 2010 to March 13, 2011 the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents MOEBIUS-TRANSE-FORME, the first major exhibition in Paris devoted to the work of Jean Giraud, more commonly known by his pseudonyms Gir and Moebius.

Undisputed master of the comic strip, inventor of extraordinary forms and a brilliant cartoonist, Moebius is an artist who goes beyond the traditional boundaries of the discipline. He developed a wide range of styles, from the detailed realism of Blueberry to the fantastical drawings of Arzach and Le Chasseur déprime. He is particularly renowned for his futuristic landscapes filled with hybrid creatures and ultrasophisticated spaceships, and which are conducive to bizarre, metaphysical musings.

Moebius has chosen the concept of metamorphosis as a central theme for this exhibition, which is the dominant leitmotiv of his comics, drawings, and film projects. the exhibition also presents his very first 3-D animated directed by the artist .

Avec leurs paysages et leurs personnages en perpétuelle transformation, ses œuvres explorent les confins de l’inconscient et dévoilent un monde imaginaire et fantastique. À travers la métamorphose souvent brusque et inquiétante d’une figure, d’un décor, Moebius révèle un monde où les apparences ne sont pas aussi stables qu’on pourrait le croire.

With landscapes and characters in perpetual transformation, his drawings explore the boundaries of the unconscious and reveal an imaginary and fantastic world. Through often sudden and disturbing metamorphoses of a character or a setting, Moebius reveals a world where appearances are not as stable as they may seem.

Useful Information

Address: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 261, boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris

Phone: +33 1 42 18 56 50 / Fax: +33 1 42 18 56 52

Opening hours: open daily, except on Monday, from 11 am to 8 pm. Late opening on Tuesday until 10 pm.

Prices: €8
Reduced price: €5,50 (students, under 25 years old, Senior and Amis des Musées card holders, job seekers)
Free: under 10 years old, Cercle des amis members, ICOM.
Free access for visitors under 18 years old on Wednesday from 2 to 6 pm.

Special event:  Moebius will sign the catalogue’s exhibition as well as his new comic strip book ARZAK, L’ARPENTEUR at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain on Tuesday 30 November from 7 pm to 9 pm.

Bookings: Fnac stores (www.fnac.com)

More information: Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain – http://fondation.cartier.com

Source : Press release Moebius Transe Forme

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Between October 15, 2010 and January, 2011 the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris presents a large retrospective to Amercian artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for the 50th anniversary of his birth. Let’s focus on this artist who started to be famous through street art and his graffitis on the walls of the streets…

This is the first large-scale Basquiat exhibition ever 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 27. Basquiat was part of the generation of graffiti artists who burst onto the New York scene in the late 1970s.

In the course of a dazzling career, his work moved from street art to painting, offering a mix of Voodoo and Biblical mythologies, comic strips, advertising and the media, African-American music and boxing heroes and assertion of his negritude. Thus he defined an underground urban counterculture at once violently anarchistic and seething with liberty and vitality.

With a hundred major pieces – paintings, drawings, objects – from numerous museums and private collections in the United States and Europe, this retrospective will allow the viewer a chronological overview of the career and the chance to assess Basquiat’s importance to art and art history in the post-80s years. It is also worth taking notice that Basquiat ended his carreer alongside Andy Warhol with whom he signed a few paintings.

Useful Info

Address: Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris – 11, avenue du Président Wilson – 75116 Paris

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm

Late night opening on Thursday until 10 pm

Information and bookings: +33 1 53 67 40 80

Prices:

• Full price : €11
• Reduced price: €8
• Half price: €5,50
• Free under 14 years old

More information: Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris – www.mam.paris.fr

Source : Press release Basquiat

Until December 31, 2010, in Moulins, Auvergne region, the Centre National du Costume de Scène (National Centre for Stage Costumes) offers a journey through the sartorial world of Divas with the exhibition «Vestiaire de Divas» (Divas’ dressing rooms).

Although the Diva emerged in the early 19th century, and despite the fact that this term is nowadays readily attributed to any female celebrity with a potent personality, independently of her particular skill, the Diva remains an emblematic and elemental figure of today’s performing arts.

The Centre National du Costume de Scène is paying homage to those prime donne endowed with such a magnetic aura, via an exhibition entitled “Vestiaire de Divas” (Divas’ dressing rooms), during which over a hundred costumes, jewels and accessories will be displayed.

Opera singers, actresses, chorus girls, stars of French song… Sarah Bernhardt, Maria Callas, Jessye Norman, Kiri Te Kanawa, Edwige Feuillère, Edith Piaf, Dalida, Zizi Jeanmaire all of them reunited here, on the same stage, in truly extraordinary fashion.These Divas’ dazzling legends will be portrayed throughout the exhibition via their accessories, jewels, headdresses, shoes, make-up and travel trunks (some of them specially created by the Vuitton company)… and many of the other personal effects and indispensible objects that went and continue to sustain their great aura.

The exhibition will be also presenting a selection of the finest designer creations for these modern Divas, including, among others, costumes created by Christian Lacroix, Maurizio Galante or those created by Frank Sorbier.

Useful Information

Address: Centre National Du Costume De Scène et de la Scénographie, Quartier Villars, Route de Montilly, 03000 Moulins.

Phone: +33 4 70 20 76 20 / Email: info@cncs.fr

Exhibition opening hours: open every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Later closure at 7 p.m. throughout July and August. Closed on the 25th of December 2010. The CNCS will close at 4 p.m. on the 24th and the 31st of December.

Prices: Full price: €5 / Reduced price: € 2,50 (for visitors aged 12-25 years, the unemployed and groups – as from 10 participants) / Free entry: for children aged under 12 in the company of an adult (excluding groups) disabled visitors and accompanying person.

More information: Centre National Du Costume De Scène et de la Scénographie – www.cncs.fr

Source : Press release “Divas”

Petit Palais museum,which has opened up to the world of photography and contemporary picture since 1998, supports Reporters Without Borders for their 25th birthday by exhibiting, until 27th February 2011, their anniversary photo album dedicated to Pierre and Alexandra Boulat.

Published by the French branch of the organisation Reporters sans Frontières as a tribute to two of the great names in French photojournalism, “100 photos by Pierre & Alexandra Boulat” and the Petit Palais exhibition show two intersecting views of the world, both passionate, disconcerting and deeply humanistic. Pierre’s reports on the shantytowns of Nanterre in the 1950’s and on the daily life of women in America radiate the same intensity as those of his daughter on Gaza and the sufferings of Afghan mothers four decades later.

Useful Information

Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. Thursdays until 8 pm. Closed Mondays and public holidays.

Admission charges Free

Address: Petit Palais – Fine Arts Museum, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris / Hall Jacqueau ground floor

Phone: +33 1 53 43 40 00

More information: Petit Palais museum – www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Source : Press release Reporters without borders – 100 photos by Pierre & Alexandra Boulat for press freedom

Until October 17, with the exhibition « Come On France ! Football and immigration, crossed stories », the National Museum of the History of Immigration questions about the relationship between football and immigration.

This exhibition is about showing the contributions of foreign-born players in French clubs and the French national football team, while addressing the social roles of football, be they real or proclaimed.

An exhibition divided into three areas:

• The spread of English football practice originally elite football in France (first clubs created) with the arrival of English migrant or French coming back from England and Switzerland
• The start of an immigration based on sporting principles since a professional championship of France was created in 1932
• The “generations” of the French National football team from 1938 to 1998 (from pictures of the selected players for each World Cup) as “reflections” – with generational gap – of industrial immigration (sons of Poles, Italians , Spanish, Algerians …)

From there, the exhibition has then a four-sections structure:

1. The spread of football from England towards France and the begining of professional competitions in the early 1930’s
2. Pictures of professionnal “foreign” football players of the French championship since 1932
3. « Players and generations » in the French National football team during World Cups
4. The local “café des sports”, a place for discussion…

Useful information:

Dates: from May 26 to October 17, 2010

Location: National Museum of the History of Immigration (Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration) – Palais de la Porte – 293 avenue Daumesnil – 75012 PARIS

Phone: +33 1 53 59 58 60

Public transports: Tube line 8 / Stop at “Porte Dorée” – Bus : n°46 or PC2 / stop at “Porte Dorée”

Opening hours:

• Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 5.30 pm
• Saturdey and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm
• Closed on Monday, December 25, January 1st, May 1st and July 14

More information: Exhibition «Come On France ! Football and immigration, crossed stories» – http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/index.php?lg=fr&nav=1169

Source : Press release «Come On France ! Football and immigration, crossed stories»

Until November 14, at the Gallo-Roman Museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gall (southeast France, in the Vienne area), the Desires for Eternity, Rituals for the Beyond exhibition is the opportunity to discover exclusively one part of the ethnological, archeological and contemporary collections.

The exhibition’s highlights…

How, through time and space, man kind deals with death, even trying to tame it or freeing himself from it ? The Desires for Eternity exhibition reflects the treasures of art and death, a universal concern which affects all societies. In our western society, especially in Europe, the way we deal with death has been changing for one century. Even today, new relational issues come to light. Patrick Baudry, a sociologist, and Pierre Gibert, a Jesuit and historian specialised in cultural matters, put into perspective this society issue.

A variety of objects, mainly from the collections of the Confluence Museum, is presented in the exhibition: archaeological collections from Egypt of the Pharaohs, from a Caucasian necropolis (1st Iron Age), from South-East Asia (10th century); ethnological collections of Fujian province in China, of Africa, of Australia (Aborigines), of New Caledonia (Kanaks) and France as well as contemporary collections (photographs, paintings, sculptures).

The exhibition’s themed trails

The exhibition offers 5 different themes to explore:

1. The fear of death and getting over it : everything has an end
2. Making agreements with the beyond, the quest for eternal living
3. Taming death, a new life
4. Going missing, hidden death
5. Conclusion, to each his own funeral

Useful information

Dates: from April 15 to November 14, 2010

Location: Gallo-Roman Museum   – Route départementale 502 – 69560 Saint Romain-en-Gal (Vienne)

Phone: +33 4 74 53 74 01

Opening hours: daily from 10 am to 6 pm (except on Mondays)

Prices:

• Full price (exhibition only) : €3
• Free (sur présentation d’un justificatif) : jeunes jusqu’à 18 ans, groupes pédagogiques, personnes en situation de handicap, chômeurs et bénéficiaires du R.M.I., personnel départemental.
• Tarif réduit (please present written proof) : €2 : Students, large families, groups of 10 people
• Free entry every thursday

More information: Exhibition « Desires for Eternity, Rituals for the Beyond » - http://www.museedesconfluences.fr/musee/expositions/hors_les_murs/desirs_eternite/index.php

Source : Dossier de presse « Desires for Eternity, Rituals for the Beyond » (Heymann Renoult agency)

The exhibition “Goya – Il était une fois… la Tauromachie, les Proverbes” is a must-attend event. Until November 28, 2010, the Goya Museum of Castres is showing an exhibition of the famous Spanish artist, the central theme of which is : bullfighting and proverbs. 

Since 2009, the Goya Museum has started restoring all Fransisco Goya’s prints, which used to be exhibited in the museum’s permanent rooms. Now, the Spanish artist’s four sets of prints, which belong to the museum’s collection, are shown occasionally to the public during temporary exhibitions.

In 2009, visitors had the opportunity to see an exhibition of Goya’s Los Caprichos (meaning The Whims), in 2010 both Bullfighting (40 prints published in 1816) and Proverbs sets (18 prints published in 1864) will be presented after their restoration. To this exhibition will be presented a few additional rare boards, among which two were purchased very recently and never shown : El Embozado and La Maja.

Useful information:

Dates : from June 26 to November 28, 2010

Location:  Goya Museum -  Hôtel de ville – 81108 Castres Cedex

Pone: +33 5 63 71 59 27

Opening times:

• Open daily in August from 10 am to 6 pm
• Open between 9 am to 12  and 2 to 6 pm in sept. april, may and june
• 10 am on Sundays and bank holidays

Prices:

• Full price: €3 – Reduced price: €1,50
• Free: under 18, job seekers, Castres Museums card holders

Around the exhibition: Guided tours of the exhibition during the summer. In August, from Tuesday to Sunday at 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm. No booking needed, price of entry ticket. Duration: 30 min

Plus d’informations : Ville de Castres – www.ville-castres.fr

Until next November 7, whether you are a hardcore gamer, a casual player or just eager to understand the world of video games, explore “MuseoGames – Une histoire à rejouer” exhibition (litterally: Museogames – replay the story), held in Paris, Arts et Métiers Museum.

In a 600 m2 dedicated area, come and discover this amazing experience, listen to exceptional accounts given by those who made and keep on writing and inventing this story… Come and play video games systems and legendary arcade games too along with emblematic people !

For the 1st time in France Musogames exhibition has initiated the entry of video games in a National Museum

Even if the history of video games is recent – about 40 years – it is nonetheless a dazzling and exciting one.  The Arts et Métiers Museum, which shows the history of technology, inquires with Museogames exhibition about the status of video games in our society. Video game systems, games, accessories have become part of our heritage. Therefore they have turned into objects to keep and study.

Through an interactive timeline, a film on “made in France” video games or a “Collection” area you will have the opportunity to take a fresh look on video games.

Exceptional stories in one single place: MuseoGames

Sit back and relax in the four “listening areas” of MuseoGames and let yourself be told the unique history of video games, the history of the people who make it and who are part of it. Among them,  internationally renowned video game designers such as Peter Molineux who is behind «Fable» or «Black and White» and who is currently taking part in Microsoft’s Natal project; Philippe Ulrich who is behind «Dune» or «Captain Blood» and also David Cage who founded Quantic Dreams studio and is behind «Heavy Rain»’s worldwide success, a game based on the player’s emotional involvement. Many other artists, collectors, researchers and journalists will show you their vision of video games and the scope of their impact on our society.

MuseoGames – Replay the story !

• Video game systems and legendary games: Pong on Atari, Pac Man or Missile Command on Atari 2600.
• Emblematic figures: Super Mario Bros on Nintendo NES, Alex Kidd on Master System, Sonic on Megadrive.
• Multi-player games like Metal Slug on Neo Geo, Tekken on Playstation…
• Arcade Games, Space Invaders, Street Fighter II, Time Traveller, Outrun…

The «play» area as MuseoGames main attraction

This area is dedicated to each generations’ best video game systems. The selected systems are above all fun and playable by everyone but it represents also a certain time, type of system or game style. It reflects both the technological and aesthetic progresses made.

Useful information:

Location: Arts et Métiers Museum – 60, rue Réaumur – Paris 3e

Dates : from June 22 to November 7, 2010

Opening hours:

• from Tuesday to Sunday included, from 10 am to 6 pm
• Late opening on Thursday until 9.30pm

Prices:

• Full price: 5,50 euros
• Reduced price: 3,50 euros (job seekers, students)

More information:

“MuseoGames – Une Histoire à Rejouer” Exhibition -  http://museogames.com/

Arts et des Métiers Museum - www.arts-et-metiers.net

Source : Press release MuseoGames Juin 2010

Until July 11, 2010, the Contemporary Art Museum of Lyon presents Rétrospective Ben Strip-Tease Intégral, the most important retrospective dedicated to the artist Ben Vautier. He is one of the major artists of the XXth century , known for its performances, installations and paintings.

With more than 1.000 works of art, this exhibition shows a 50-year carrier over  3000 m2 (i.e. all the rooms of the museum). The exhibition includes pieces starting from the very beginning at Nice to the most recent ones, through his appropriations, performances, paintings and installations.

For the first time, all the topics dear to Ben and which made him famous have been exhibited, gathered by series: Bananas, Ego, Gestures, Ethnism, Sex, Truth etc. This unprecedented event also includes new videos and pieces created especially for this occasion.

By setting Ben’s work in its historical context, this exhibition, due to its scope (the largest ever done), allows the visitor a deeper understanding of a world which he had probably only seen the media-related side.

Useful Information:

Place: Contemporary Art Museum, Cité internationale – 81 quai Charles de Gaulle – 69006 LYON
Phone : +33 4 72 69 17 17 – Fax : +33 4 72 69 17 00
Contact : info@mac-lyon.com
Opening hours:

• From Wednesday to Friday: from 12 to 7 pm
• Saturday and Sunday: from 10 am to 7 pm

Exhibition prices:

• Full price: €8
• Reduced price: €6
• Family price: 1€3 (2 adults and 2 children or more)
• Free under 18
• Visits : €3 + entry

More information: Lyon Contemporary Art Museum – www.mac-lyon.com