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What to do in Paris?

The Dior Gallery, which bears witness to the bold vision of Christian Dior and his six successors: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri.

The Fondation Louis Vuitton invites David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the XXᵉ and XXIᵉ centuries, to take over its entire exhibition spaces. This presentation of over 400 works from 1955 to 2025 brings together, in addition to a major collection from the artist's studio and his foundation, loans from international, institutional and private collections. The artist personally oversaw the design of each sequence and each room, in an ongoing dialogue with his assistant Jonathan Wilkinson.

The exhibition brings together works in a wide variety of techniques - oil and acrylic paintings, ink, pencil and charcoal drawings, as well as digital works and video installations. David Hockney was totally involved in the production of this exhibition. In collaboration with his companion and studio manager, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, he chose to focus the exhibition on the last 25 years of his work, without omitting the "mythical" works from his early years, thus offering an immersion into his universe, spanning seven decades of creation.

Disney100: The Exhibition is an invitation to explore a century of stories and creation. Featuring nine immersive galleries, this unique experience lifts the veil on some of Disney's most beloved stories - from classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Peter Pan (1953) to more recent titles such as Ratatouille (2007) and Encanto, The Fantastic Madrigal Family (2021). Fans will also be able to celebrate their favorite stories from the Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel universes.

For almost 55 years, Walt Disney Archives has been carefully preserving some of The Walt Disney Company's most treasured objects. In Paris, over 250 pieces will be on display, including artworks, sculptures used in animation, and costumes and props. These include the Carousel Horse from Mary Poppins (1964), used by Disney Legend Julie Andrews, and the red dress from Cruella (2021), worn by Emma Stone.

Bringing together over 110 works (paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, ceramics), the exhibition showcases Matisse's view of his eldest daughter, Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse (1894-1982), an essential but discreet figure in his family circle. Organized chronologically, the exhibition testifies to the strength of the bond between the artist and his daughter, and reveals the trust and respect they had in each other. It is also an opportunity to discover the fascinating destiny of an extraordinary woman, who played a leading role in her father's career.

From his earliest childhood images to the end of the Second World War, Matisse's daughter Marguerite remained the most constant model in his work. The exhibition features numerous drawings rarely, if ever, shown to the public, as well as important paintings from American, Swiss and Japanese collections exhibited in France for the first time. Photographs, archival documents and works painted by Marguerite herself complete the evocation of this little-known personality.

The exhibition reveals the importance of Paris in the filmmaker's prolific oeuvre, which brought documentary and fiction into dialogue. In particular, it looks back at the still little-known work of the photographer in relation to that of the filmmaker, through a set of 130 prints of the courtyard-atelier in rue Daguerre (Paris 14th), and above all at the way Agnès Varda's camera explored the city and its details.

The fruit of over two years' research, the exhibition is based essentially on Agnès Varda's photographic collection and the Ciné-Tamaris archives. It compares the work of the photographer with that of the filmmaker, through a collection of 130 prints, many of them previously unpublished, and extracts from films shot entirely or in part in Paris. The exhibition also includes publications, documents, objects belonging to the artist, posters and film stills.

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The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris presents the first retrospective in France devoted to the German artist Gabriele Münter (1877-1962). Co-founder of the Munich-based Blue Rider circle (Blaue Reiter), Gabriele Münter was one of the most prominent female artists of German Expressionism. In an art world dominated by men, she created an extremely personal and diverse body of work spanning six decades.

Although his name is often associated with that of Kandinsky, who was his companion during his Munich years (1903-1914), Gabriele Münter never ceased to renew himself, with astonishing modernity, mastering a wide range of techniques and leaving a prolific body of work.

Through a selection of some 170 works in a variety of techniques (painting, engraving, photography, embroidery, etc.), this exhibition, the first of its kind in France, aims to offer a detailed chronological overview of Gabriele Münter's work, representing more than 60 years of her oeuvre and its importance for the history of 20th-century art.

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Built at the height of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall embodies the division between capitalism and communism, an ideological confrontation that has plunged the world into a constant nuclear threat.

Through over 200 authentic artifacts, this unique exhibition traces its history and highlights the importance of defending human rights, freedom and democracy. The collection of over 200 original objects comes from more than 20 international institutions, including the Berlin Wall Foundation, the Allied Museum and the Hiroshima Peace Museum. Among the most remarkable items are fragments of the Wall and personal objects that Berliners used for smuggling or communicating across the Wall, bearing witness to the direct consequences of the two opposing systems. Visitors can also discover objects reflecting the global dimension of the conflict, such as those used for propaganda, espionage and nuclear warfare. These pieces retrace the social movements and events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.

The exhibition presents more than 350 photographs chosen for a stroll through the complex work of an artist so often simplified, which here takes on its full poetic and profoundly human dimension. From the 1930s to the 1980s, Robert Doisneau photographed his childhood, his Parisian suburbs, the studios of painters and sculptors, the work of Maillol, post-war fashion and luxury, all the while taking stock of a world without indulgence, a world in which he always felt a sense of solidarity.

The exhibition offers a genuine encounter with the photographer in his rich universe of work. Personal objects and documents, as well as interactives and audiovisuals, are revealed along the way. You'll also discover his advertising work, which is often funny and little-known.