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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.

Running at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs from November 29, 2023 to April 28, 2024, the exhibition "Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses" pays tribute to one of the most visionary fashion designers of her generation.

A pioneer in the use of new technologies in her discipline, Iris van Herpen transgresses the conventional norms of clothing, open to both traditional and forward-looking know-how.

Ranging from the micro to the macro, the exhibition questions the body's place in space, its relationship to clothing and its environment, and its future in a rapidly changing world. A selection of more than 100 haute couture pieces by Iris van Herpen interact with contemporary artworks by Philip Beesley, Collectif Mé, Wim Delvoye, Rogan Brown, Kate MccGwire, Damien Jalet, Kohei Nawa, Casey Curran, Jacques Rougerie, as well as design creations by Neri Oxman, Ren Ri, Ferruccio Laviani and Tomáš Libertíny, and pieces from the natural sciences such as coral and fossils creating a unique resonance with historical pieces.

The exhibition will focus on transparency as Yves Saint Laurent's preferred artistic expression. Some forty textile pieces will be presented. These will be accompanied by elements of the creative process: sketches, tracing patterns, photographs and accessories, as well as a series of drawings inspired by the paintings of Goya. Works by modern and contemporary artists echo Yves Saint Laurent's creations.

Attracted by the suggestive power of transparency, Yves Saint Laurent began experimenting with materials such as chiffon, lace and tulle in the 1960s. Like a leitmotif, transparency recurs regularly throughout his forty-year career, actively contributing to the silhouette of a powerful, liberated woman. Drawing on the power of materials, this new exhibition explores fashion and the couturier's vision in all its complexity: as close as possible to his relationship with the body and revisited nudity.

L'Atelier des Lumières dedicates its new exhibition to the Egypt of the Pharaohs, featuring masterpieces from a civilization that spans three millennia and fascinates every generation. The immersive journey takes visitors along the Nile with its lush flora and fauna, and invites them to discover the daily life of ancient Egypt with its bas-reliefs, paintings and ancient papyri.

The digital exhibition reveals the remains of ancient Egypt as they appeared to French scientists during the Egyptian Campaign from 1798 to 1801, and as drawn by painter David Roberts. Visitors are immersed in this period of history, discovering the construction sites of the pyramids, the temples dedicated to multiple divinities, the mythical battles that punctuated the reigns of successive sovereigns, and immersing themselves in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.

This is the first monograph devoted to the photographer in Paris. Italian-born Paolo Roversi moved to Paris in 1973. During his apprenticeship, his choice of studio, large-format camera and Polaroid defined the photographer's working style and aesthetic, and he successfully adapted to digital photography. Since then, he has worked for prestigious magazines( Italian and FrenchVogue, Egoïste, Luncheon...). His career has been marked by his collaboration with the greatest fashion designers, including Yohji Yamamoto, Romeo Gigli and Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons.

This exhibition, which brings together 140 works including previously unseen images, Polaroid prints and archives (magazines, catalogs, etc.), reveals the professional and artistic career of the Italian fashion photographer. Over the years, Paolo Roversi has sought out and invented his own photographic language. His signature is unmistakable: soft, sepia-toned black and white in daylight, dense, deep colors in flashlight.

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Sculptures, photographs, drawings and films... the "Brancusi" retrospective offers an opportunity to discover all the dimensions of the creation of this immense artist, considered to be the inventor of modern sculpture. The artist's studio, the jewel in the Musée National d'Art Moderne's collection since his bequest in 1957, is at once a place of life, creation and contemplation, and forms the matrix of this project. An exceptional group of sculptures, playing on the dialogue between plaster casts from the Atelier Brancusi and originals in stone or bronze, on loan from numerous private and museum collections (Tate Modern, MoMA, Guggenheim, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, National Museum of Art of Romania, Craiova Museum of Art...) are exceptionally brought together. The last and only Brancusi retrospective exhibition in France dates back to 1995 (curated by Margit Rowell at the Centre Pompidou). A unique opportunity to discover this immense ^20th-century artist in a new light.

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For the third Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in Paris in 2024, the Musée du Louvre invites the public to discover the creation of the first Olympic Games and its iconographic sources at the end of the 19th century, to grasp the political context and to understand how its organizers wanted to reinvent the competitions of ancient Greece.

The exhibition reveals the origins of this worldwide event: in addition to Pierre de Coubertin, a number of French and Greek personalities were behind the biggest and most closely followed sporting event of all. They were joined by Émile Gilliéron (1850-1924), a Swiss-born draughtsman who trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and frequented the Louvre, where he copied some of the masterpieces. Settled in Greece and appointed official artist of the 1896 Athens Olympic Games and the 1906 Mesolympiade, he drew inspiration from the discoveries made during the excavations of the great contemporary archaeological sites to invent the winners' trophies. Using the most modern reproduction techniques, he illustrated the images used to communicate the fledgling Greek state, notably on stamps and posters.

Thanks to an exceptional loan from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), the Louvre is exhibiting the first Olympic cup, known as the Bréal Cup: designed by the academic Michel Bréal, it was created by a French goldsmith for the winner of the first Marathon race, invented during the modern Olympic Games.

As part of the cultural program for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the exhibition aims to show how, in the name of sport, the alliance of the scientific disciplines of philology, history, art history and archaeology succeeded in creating this global event.

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The Musée de Montmartre is the first Parisian museum to devote a retrospective exhibition to Auguste Herbin, in the city where he created all his life. With works often never seen before, it retraces the painter's seven creative periods: postimpressionism, fauvism, cubism, monumental objects, new figuration, first and second abstraction. Here, Herbin regains his rightful place in the history of modern art, revealing works of the highest quality from each of his creative periods.

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This immersive expedition invites you to relive the opening night of the first Impressionist exhibition through virtual reality. A unique journey back in time to share with family and friends. The exhibition, which opened in the photographer Nadar's former studio at 8pm on April 15, 1874, brought together independent artists who had chosen to exhibit outside the official Salon. Their names included Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas.

Equipped with a virtual reality headset, visitors discover the hushed atmosphere of the first Impressionist exhibition, and meet the painters and places that marked the beginnings of the movement, from the studio of painter Frédéric Bazille to Le Havre, where Monet executed his famous painting Impression, Soleil Levant. Thanks to the work of experts in 3D reconstruction and virtual reality, and under the scientific direction of the Musée d'Orsay, this experience invites you to take part in this major event in the history of art.

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The Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine and Société du Grand Paris present an exhibition devoted to the metro, its history and the urban transformations associated with it. The vast construction site of the Grand Paris Express offers an opportunity to reconsider mobility on the scale of a metropolis of 12 million inhabitants. The challenge of this exhibition, which combines the history of technology, visionary projects and the fictional world of the metro, is to take an interest in mobility as well as urbanity, projecting visitors into a new mental map of Greater Paris.

The Grand Paris project, whose contours have been constantly redrawn over the last century, is facing up to the contemporary challenges of the resilient city and the ecological transition. In the exhibition, the Grand Paris Express network is revealed through an urban, architectural and artistic panorama of the stations and their neighborhoods. The public can discover the new stations created in tandem by architects and artists, as well as the illustrations that will appear on their platforms.

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