ARTS
WEEK

Guided tour of the inaugural exhibition in the majestic new building of the École des Arts Joailliers.

As a partner of the Comédie-Française, the École des Arts Joailliers will be exhibiting stage jewellery worn by the most famous actors and actresses - Talma, Rachel, Sarah Bernhardt... - tracing the history of stage jewellery since the 18th century.

Jewellery, paintings, drawings and manuscripts all bear witness to the sumptuousness of these objects, which, while often made from non-precious materials, feature the skills of the jeweller.

Curated by Agathe Sanjuan, curator-archivist at the Comédie-Française, and the École des arts joailliers.

Guided tour of the autumn exhibition at the Musée de l'Armée.

The Museum is broadening its horizons with an exhibition on a theme that has been little studied until now: the expression of Victory in its most varied forms.

The exhibition explores the ways in which not only the military, but also civil society - including the arts, sport, politics, the professions, hunting, bullfighting, etc. - have embodied and promoted their victories.

The exhibition is also an opportunity to present to the public spectacular objects with often complex backgrounds, the vast majority of which are now part of public heritage collections in France and abroad.

Guided tour of two exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume devoted to two British-born artists.

Considered the pioneer of the photographic portrait, Julia Margaret Cameron is one of the most celebrated artists of all time. Original and timeless, Cameron's work, produced in barely a decade, between 1864 and 1875, is one of the finest illustrations of the epic spirit of early photography.

The second exhibition presents the work of Victor Burgin, an artist and image theorist who made a name for himself in the late 1960s with his contributions to the first exhibitions of conceptual art. A selection of black-and-white works from the 1970s and 1980s is presented, as well as works produced over the last ten years, in which 3D computer modelling has gradually supplanted video.

Hangar Y takes you on an artistic journey through a park designed by André Le Nôtre in the grand perspective of the 17th-century Château de Meudon.

Along the way, you'll discover around twenty contemporary sculptures by some of the world's best-known artists, as well as emerging talents.

Sculptures, installations, sound works, performance pieces, ephemeral works... An enchanted, poetic interlude and a veritable journey of inspiration awaits you.

The majestic Fondation Louis Vuitton invites you on a guided tour of its major autumn 2023 exhibition.

The first retrospective in France devoted to the American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) since the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1999, the exhibition presented at the Foundation brings together some 115 works from leading institutional collections, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Tate in London and the Phillips Collection in Washington, as well as major international private collections, including that of the artist's family.

Mark Rothko, "Light Cloud, Dark Cloud", 1957
Oil on canvas
169,6 x 158,8 cm
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Museum purchase, The Benjamin J. Tillar Memorial Trust
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko - Adagp, Paris, 2023

Maison Chaumet invites you on a private tour of its new installation, Un Âge d'Or: 1965-1985, in the historic salons of 12 Vendôme.

A plunge into these years of unbridled creativity, when Chaumet revolutionised the codes of jewellery, again and again placing itself at the forefront.

Boucles d'oreilles des années 70 (c) Chaumet

Guided tour of the exhibition "Gustave Moreau. The Middle Ages rediscovered" by Emmanuelle Macé, head of documentary studies at the Gustave Moreau National Museum and curator of the exhibition.

The exhibition features eighty-five works (paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, books and photographs) from the permanent collections of the Musée Gustave Moreau, as well as two loans: one from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the other from the Musée du Louvre.

The exhibition invites visitors to discover the wealth of Moreau's medieval sources of inspiration, and to immerse themselves in the unique creative process of this "worker and assembler of dreams".

Housed in a private mansion on the Plaine Monceau (once the home and studio of the painter Guillaume Dubufe, traces of whose eclectic décor are still clearly visible), the Musée National Jean-Jacques Henner traces the career of an artist who, at the beginning of the 20th century, was considered one of the most important of his time. A painter and draughtsman, Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905) made his career from his native Alsace to Paris, via the Villa Medici where he stayed after winning the Prix de Rome.

A private tour will be led by Maeva Abillard, the museum's curator. Visitors will be invited to discover the artistic personality of Jean-Jacques Henner through painted sketches, preparatory studies and Salon paintings. These numerous works from the artist's studio provide an insight into how an "official" painter worked in the second half of the 19th century.

Visitors will also discover the artist's more intimate personality through objects that once belonged to him, specially brought out of storage for the occasion (glasses, pipes, cane, honorary medals, academician's hat and sword, etc.). An opportunity to discover the man behind the artist!

On this exceptional tour, discover some of the factories and workshops of the Mobilier national, as well as its reserves.

The Mobilier National has been supporting the creative arts and crafts since the 17th century. Its mission is to ensure the conservation and restoration of its collections, which are unique in the world, and to perpetuate and pass on exceptional skills.

A major centre of heritage, the institution is also a major player in contemporary creation and the promotion of French decorative arts.

The Musée de Montmartre is devoting an exhibition to Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923), the emblematic artist of Montmartre in the late 19th century.

To mark the centenary of his death, the exhibition pays tribute to this unclassifiable and protean artist, who was a draughtsman, engraver, painter and sculptor who belonged to only one school: that of freedom.

Aurore Janson (assistant curator, in charge of the works at the Musée de Montmartre) offers a guided tour of this major exhibition.

With François Blanchetière, curator of sculpture at the Musée d'Orsay, go behind the scenes of the recent renovation of two areas of the Musée d'Orsay, the terrace of the Porte de l'Enfer and the area known as the "back of the nave".

Auguste Rodin's Porte de l'Enfer, one of the major works in the Musée d'Orsay's sculpture collection, had been in a position since 1986 that didn't show it off to its best advantage. It now occupies a central position, in the axis of the great nave of the old station, surrounded by works that provide a better understanding of its genesis.

The space just below it, organised around the model of the Opéra district, was renovated at the same time. Under the title "Paris, capital of a modern nation", it evokes the transformation of the city during the period 1848-1914, with a selection of paintings, sculptures and models.

An exceptional visit led by the three curators of the exhibition "JEAN DUBUFFET, REBONDS. D'une oeuvre à l'autre", Stanislas Ract-Madoux, Déborah Lehot-Couette, and Sophie Webel, Director of the Fondation Dubuffet.

The exhibition was dictated by the desire to approach the artist in a different way, by selecting works from more or less distant periods, presenting correspondences.

These may be a variation on a theme, a similarity in composition or the presence of elements or the presence of elements foreshadowing the rest of the work.