Paris Plage est de retour 28 juillet 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Parcours , add a commentJusqu’au 21 août, Paris Plages vous attend sur deux sites parisiens : voie Georges-Pompidou (4e) et bassin de la Villette à Stalingrad (19e).
Plébiscité en 2007, le site du bassin de la Villette voit sa surface doubler. La base nautique, qui permet une initiation en toute sécurité aux sports nautiques, prend de l’ampleur et propose voilier, pédalo et barque. Les aires de jeux, plages de sable, terrains de boules et pistes de danse suivent elles aussi ce mouvement ascendant.
L’offre sportive est encore diversifiée. Aux incontournables comme le bassin de baignade face au quai des Célestins, le tai-chi ou la pétanque, viennent s’ajouter cette année un parcours de mini golf dans le jardin éphémère du parvis, un espace fitness sur la plage de sable de la voie Georges-Pompidou, des baby foot pour douze joueurs, un manège pour les tout petits, de l’escrime, et même une initiation au Segway, ces drôles d’engins électriques à deux roues pour se déplacer autrement (Pont Sully).
On peut aussi …
- du fitness au Pont Neuf, sur les quais: vélos d’appartement, machines de musculation, rameurs, mis à disposition de tous.
- de tennis de table et de l’escrime aux Tuileries, sur les quais
- du gyropode près du Pont de Sully : un drôle d’engin électrique à deux roues
- danser du matin jusqu’au soir
- jouer au baby-foot: rendez-vous au Pont Neuf
- jouer dans le sable: un terrain d’aventure attend les enfants de 3 à 7 ans au Pont-au-change
- jouer à la pétanque: rendez-vous pont Louis-Philippe
- jouer au mini golf : place de l’Hôtel de Ville dès le 24 juillet
Sources: Paris.fr et Benoit Darcy (photo)
Richard Avedon au Jeu de Paume 22 juillet 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Culture , add a commentPhotographs 1946-2004, until 09 28 2008.
Organised by the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek with the cooperation of the Richard Avedon Foundation, this exhibition surveys the whole of Richard Avedon’s career, starting with his first steps as a fashion photographer at the end of the Second World War.
Avedon continued to photograph the creations of the big Parisian couture houses up until 1984, working first for Harper’s Bazaar and then for Vogue. Finding fashion photography too static and stuffy, he transformed it by introducing movement and photographing his models in public spaces.
He also made many portraits of celebrities from the worlds of literature, art and show business, always taking care to shatter the icon in order to reveal the true personality behind the public image.
In the 1960s, Avedon also ventured into photojournalism, covering such hot subjects as Civil Rights campaigners in the American South (1963), the Ku Klux Klan, patients in a mental hospital and the Vietnam war — both in the country itself, where he photographed military officers and napalm victims, and back home, where, a pacifist himself, he covered the hippie protests against the war.
In 1974 Avedon exhibited a series of his father, then dying of cancer, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During this decade he continued his fashion photography and reportage, and also produced a series of 73 portraits of America’s political elite for Rolling Stone.
The early 1980s saw Avedon produce a long series of 700 portraits of middle class and poor Americans from the 17 western states. As if to refute the myth of the American West, these portraits, all taken outdoors against a white ground, show closed, tense and introverted faces with an intense but subjacent emotional power. At the end of the decade, a commission from the French magazine Égoïste gave Avedon the chance to cover the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Do not miss this exhibition and then enjoy a walk throughout the Jardin des Tuileries!
Exhibition place : Jeu de Paume: 1, place de la Concorde 75008 Paris
Opening hours :
Tuesday: 12:00 am – 9:00 pm
Wednesday – Friday: 12:00 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Valentino, thèmes et variations 21 juillet 2008
Posted by webmaster in : Design & Decoration , add a commentUntil the 21th of September 2008
Les Arts Décoratifs is organising an Exhibition of the work of italian Couturier Valentino Garavani, known as “Valentino”, an Event continuing our ongoing program of retrospectives of the great Contemporary Couturiers.
The first parisian Retrospective, comprising some two hundred Haute Couture Designs, will retrace the exceptional career of this designer based in Rome since 1959. “Valentino, thèmes et variations”, also pays tribute to the couturier, who in January 2008 presented his final collection.
”La mode passe mais le style reste”, Coco Chanel.
We can most definitely apply this quote of Madamoiselle Coco Chanel, to Valentino. Having his first break through in 1967, he climbed the ladder straight to the top from there.
Exhibition place :
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
107, rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris
Opening hours :
Tuesdays to Fridays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Open until 9 p.m. on Thursdays
Educative tour in Paris 20 juillet 2008
Posted by webmaster in : News , add a commentCurrently at Musée des Arts Décoratifs - Napoléon, Symboles des pouvoirs sous l’Empire
A great initiative on the part of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, this exhibition entitled « Napoléon - Symboles des pouvoirs sous l’Empire », presents us with an interesting perspective on the Decorative Arts during the Napoleonic period, their development, role and significance…
Contrary to the ideas of the past, we learn that the ornaments of the Empire are far from being merely symbols of political power. In fact, with 250 objects (furniture, pieces of gold and silver plate, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, etc.) representing, among other things, the eagle, the butterfly, the crown of flowers, the swan or Psyche, the exhibition encourages us to « put aside our prejudices that are tied to Napoleonic symbols » by broaching the theme of seduction, the other aspect of power. Don’t miss the chance to discover these exceptional pieces which the Musée des Arts Décoratifs has selected from the most prestigious museums of the Paris region. Pure delight.
Until the 5th of October 2008
Exhibition place : Musée des Arts Décoratifs
107, rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris
Opening hours : Tuesdays to Fridays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Open until 9 p.m. on Thursdays
