The elect are organized to be their territoryIn this regard the spectacular fall of Madrid 8Others live up to a hundred kilometres aroundThirtynine universities were selected the ten projectsWhich also trims margin on resale potentialThis place seems to become abstract him alsoan Atlanticist and Eurosceptic pure juiceIt is modest but this may be only a startA temporary duties were taken over by Bernard HérodinAnd no question of confined to a simple redistrictingA little more time at the end of the year There is what to do. On the side of large institutions, it is at the Centre Georges-Pompidou (01.44.78.12.33) to be go to priority to observe one of the major searing of the art of the 20th century, signed Rauschenberg. The Museum exhibits until 15 September its "Combine Paintings", a motley Assembly of memories, objects of common use and paintings between 1954 and 1961. A time key to the art of war.
On the same floor, the Centre Georges-Pompidou exposes the work of Yves Klein, French artist known for his monochrome of powdery and deep blue. A particularly didactic presentation, under the title "Body colours, intangible", until February 5 to enter the universe of this whimsical being, for absolute death prematurely.
But one of the musts of the moment lies in a place which is not yet fully registered in the system of visits to the capital, because that opened recently. The Red House, Fondation Antoine de Galbert (01.40.01.08.81), offers the collection of modern and contemporary art to visit giant of a diamond dealer in Antwerp, a francophone from the name of Sylvio Perlstein, who began to focus on the international establishment of his time as early as the 1950s. No snobbery or desire to follow the current fashionable, he purchased early minimal artists conceptual Americans, but also the Belgian Marcel Broodthaers and Calder or surrealist photographs.
Visit an exhibition that resembles a curiosity, to go to the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris before January 7 (01.53.67.40.00). Artist Karen Kilimnik American organized the sophisticated staged involving historical fantasies such as Versailles and portraits of "people" like Paris Hilton or Leonardo DiCaprio. The lower floor of the same building, an exhibition juxtaposes works of Rouault and Matisse, and seeks to "correspondence" between them until February 11. In fact, the Museum has a whole remarkable works of Rouault, master of modern art, famous for his circus characters and his dark palette. Matisse is still the poor relative of the remarks.
In a register more classic, in addition to "Venice and the East 828-1797", presented at the Institute of the Arab world (01.40.51.38.38) 18 February 250 paintings, textile works, pieces of glassware, ceramics, metalwork , the Grand Palais exposition devoted to the art of the portrait of 1770 to 1830 is full of charm and intelligence. Of course, the picture is also Titian, grand master of the 16th century with the exhibition which he dedicated to the Museum of Luxembourg (01.42.34.25.95) until 21 January. Thirty-five portraits by him or his workshop.
In the regions
The most spectacular regional exhibition is held in Avignon. The collection Lambert (04.90.16.56.20) organizes to February 11, a retrospective of contemporary American artist Andres Serrano, which carries out a series of portraits large format colour, at both aesthetic proposals and social analyses. Grenoble, the store, centre national d'art contemporain (04.76.21.95.84), presents a retrospective of one of the stars of the current German scene, Jonathan Meese. Paintings and sculptures from Expressionism, but reviewed by mind trash, punk, destroy... Until January 7. More playful, "Bombay Maximum City", the postal sorting of Lille, gave a rich and noisy of the India of today.
Finally, the initiative of the Louvre, seven major regional museums face total 800 Italian drawings of the 17th and 18th century derived from French collections. Ask the program... At Montpellier, the Fabre Museum exhibits "Venice." "The art of the Serenissima" (until 14 January); in Rouen, at the Museum of fine arts, "Engineering of Bologna, in the Gandolfi Caracci" (to January 15). at Poitiers, at the musée Sainte-Croix, "The Baroque splendour of Naples" (4 February); in Bayonne, musée Bonnat, "The reach of Florence under the last Medici" (7 February); in Ajaccio, Fesch museum, "Triumphant Genoa and Lombardy of the Borromeo" (23 February); at the musée Paul-Dupuy in Toulouse, "Rome at the height of his glory" (7 February); and the Museum of Grenoble, "the appeal of the Italy: French artists and Northern Peninsula" (4 February). The information is available on