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Apr 16th, 2007 09:53 AM |
Just a bit of interest:
This summers's blockbuster exhibition will be 'from Cezanne to Picasso', which opens on June 19 at the Musee` d'Orsay ( www.museeorsay.fr)and is devoted to the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who collected the work of Gauguin, Renoir, Degas & Matisse, among others. Until then, get along to the just-opened retrospective at the Bibliotheque Nationale celebrating the photographer Eugene Atget, whose sepia portraits of the city at the turn of the 20th century have a bewitching stillness ( www.bnffr.fr) until July.
Of the museums opened over the past couple of years, the 250million Euro Musee du Quai Branly ( www.quaibranly.fr) is by far the grandest. Squatting beside the Eiffel Tower, Jean Nouvel's Chinese barge-like building is hard to love, but theres no doubting the power of it's displays of ethnic treasures, garnered from colonial days -
extract from Nigel Tisdall's article on Paris.
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