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Joan Mitchell, No Room at the End, 1977, oil on canvas, 281 x 361 cm. © The Estate of Joan Mitchell. Courtesy: Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Fortunate Fall

At Fondation Louis Vuitton, Barry Schwabsky asks if a side-by-side look at Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell does not incidentally reveal how little their work had in common.

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Re-appropriating the Colony

From the Archives: an interview with artist Kader Attia about La Colonie in Paris

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Komunuma, site, Summer 2019 © Axelle Poisson; Courtesy Fondation FIMINCO

Komunuma, site, Summer 2019
© Axelle Poisson; Courtesy Fondation FIMINCO

Komunuma: the model for Grand Paris?

Ingrid Luquet-Gad finds coexistence and dissonance when she visits Komunuma, the new Parisian art district

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Rembrandt van Rijn’s 1631 Minerva at the Gemaldegalerie

Rembrandt van Rijn, Minerva, 1631, 60.5 x 49 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Now Zero: Light on Water

This month, Ella Plevin drifts largely unnoticed through Baku, Paris, and Berlin.

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Going Out in Paris

Paris Internationale 2018: Recommendations for where to eat, drink and be merry from Eugenia Lai

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Franz West
Tragbild Franz (1970)

"Franz West" at Centre Pompidou

Julie Ryan reports from the opening

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7 reasons Vetements is the bastard attire of a broken generation, or am I just depressed?

A nihilist’s guide to the unbelievable success of the young European fashion label

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Piotr Niepsuj, iPhone photograph, Paris Internationale 2015

Piotr Niepsuj, iPhone photograph, Anne Imhof at Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Paris Internationale 2015

Paris Internationale shot by Piotr Niepsuj

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Going out in Paris

Seven recommendations by Paris Internationale

Spike Events

Spike Conversations at Paris Internationale

With Emily Segal, Alessandro Bava, Fulvia Carnevale, Rory Rowan, Constant Dullaart, and Toke Lykkeberg

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Portrait by Marina Faust

I didn't know I was putting my head into a noose

One month ago the French Minister of Culture dismissed Nicolas Bourriaud from his post as director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, in an astonishing decision that caused a storm in French - and international - media, replete with rumors of high-level intrigue and allegations of nepotism.
Now Bourriaud tells his version of events. What did the renowned curator and theorist's dismissal have to do with Ralph Lauren? How come the students couldn't work in their studios for six days beforehand? And what are his hopes for the future of the institution?

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