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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 exhibition explores the influence of the art world and contemporary creation on the world of fashion, through the history of decorative styles, crafts and ornamentation. Throughout the galleries and rooms of the Objets d'art department, 65 contemporary silhouettes, accompanied by some thirty accessories, will be deployed in a historical and poetic dialogue with the department's masterpieces, from Byzantium to the Second Empire.

The tour offers a different way of looking at objets d'art through the prism of contemporary designers' eyes. It highlights the close links between the collections of the Objets d'art department and fashion pieces. In terms of the history of art and fashion, complicities often involve shared methods, knowledge of the oldest techniques, visual culture and a play on references.

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This spring, Galerie MR8, located in the Marais district of Paris, is dedicating a photo exhibition to the iconic David Bowie. Having passed away on January 10, 2016, the British artist continues to haunt, fascinate and influence pop culture to this day.

In London, on the other side of the Channel, a center dedicated to the singer is due to open its doors in September 2025. Visitors will be able to discover, on a permanent basis, over 90,000 objects linked to David Bowie. In Paris, fans of the British artist are not left out. From Saturday March 22 to Sunday June 22, 2025, an exhibition dedicated to the chameleon will take up residence in a Parisian gallery nestled in the Marais district.

Entitled " David Bowie, Mr Jones' Long Hair ", and presented for the first time in Paris, this exhibition will bring together around 100 photographs (some of which have never been seen before), focusing on fashion, cinema, literature, music, theater and painting.

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From the Maghreb to Japan, via the countries of the Middle East, India and China, the exhibition traces the thousand-year history of gold in the textile arts. As early as the fifth millennium BC, gold was used to embellish the first luxury fabrics. Over the following centuries, skilled weavers and craftsmen deployed ingenious techniques to create truly artistic fabrics, where silk or linen fibers intertwined with gold threads and blades, combining artistic creation, traditional know-how and technical inventions.

From the first ornaments sewn onto the garments of the deceased to the flamboyant gowns of Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei, from the gold-embroidered caftans of the Maghreb and the Orient and the silks of the Indian and Indonesian worlds to the glittering kimonos of the Edo era, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through gold in two historical and technical sections and five sections corresponding to five major geographical and cultural areas.

Co-founder of Cubism, and considered the father of modern art, Pablo Picasso dedicated his work to questioning the perception of reality, challenging all the artistic canons of his time and shaking up the academic codes he mastered to perfection. This retrospective, projected onto the walls of the Atelier des Lumières, invites us to observe the various techniques the artist explored: engraving, sculpture, paper and glue, assemblages, folding and ceramics.

This exhibition pays tribute to the Roman artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - circa 1656). One of the few female artists of the modern era to have achieved international fame during her lifetime, and to have been able to make a living from her painting, Artemisia Gentileschi was a protagonist of Caravaggesque painting. Through some forty paintings, this exhibition highlights her role in the history of 17th-century art.

Her initial training with her artist father Orazio, and the strong impact of Caravaggio, will be highlighted in the exhibition. Although her work is difficult to separate from that of her destiny (she was raped in her youth, and suffered the mysoginous violence of the ensuing trial), her work - a reflection of her experiences and resilience - is nonetheless universal. The painter draws her inspiration from biblical and literary themes to highlight feminine heroism, which she portrays with a rare empathy. An important part of the exhibition will be devoted to the symbolic duel of Eros and Thanatos, crucial to Baroque art and culture.

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.

This is the first exhibition devoted to the work of filmmaker Wes Anderson. It follows the evolution of his work, from his first steps in the 1990s to his most recent film Asteroid City (2023). The tour highlights the aesthetic specificities of his entire filmography, revealing his inspirations, his homages, and the meticulous craftsmanship that characterizes the director's mise en scène.

The world's first major exhibition devoted to the work of Wes Anderson. Through an abundant selection of props, original costumes, extracts and documents, mainly from his personal collection, this exhibition offers a glimpse into the filmmaker's world, his inspirations, the meticulousness of his art and his constant innovation. A celebration of a unique filmmaker and his lasting influence on contemporary cinema.

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.

The exhibition brings together works by Fernand Léger (1881-1955), a pioneer of modern art, with over thirty works by artists from the European and American avant-gardes from the 1960s to the present day. The exhibition highlights the strong historical and artistic link between the work of Fernand Léger and the generation that immediately followed him: the New Realists. Launched in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany, this movement brought together artists such as Arman, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri and Niki de Saint Phalle.

This exhibition aims to illustrate the modernity and multidisciplinarity of Fernand Léger's work by placing his work in dialogue with that of other artists from the 1960s to the present day. While the relationship with the object occupies a central place, the exhibition also addresses other themes, including the representation of the leisure society, art in the public space and the creative process. The exhibition is based on the collections of the Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot and the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain in Nice.

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.

Through an exceptional collection of nearly 230 works, "L'art est dans la rue" explores the spectacular rise of the illustrated poster in Paris in the second half of the 19th century. Co-organized in partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the exhibition is a first on this scale. Indeed, in Paris, no large-scale event has yet been devoted to this social phenomenon, bringing together so many outstanding works by the "Masters of the poster". Bonnard, Chéret, Grasset, Mucha, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec... Conceived as a gripping plunge into the visual universe of the 19th-century city, the exhibition traces the golden age of the artistic poster, analyzing the social and cultural changes that fostered its development, in dialogue with a unique collection of posters, paintings, photographs, costumes, sculptures and decorative art objects that evoke the effervescent world of the street at the turn of the century.

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.