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La Villette presents “Pop Air”, produced in collaboration with the Ballon Museum in Rome.

After “Beyond the Limits” in 2018, a monumental exhibition by the Japanese collective teamLab, La Villette returns to an immersive and playful art project.

Monumental works by more than fifteen international artists gathered for 5 months for a unique inflatable experience.

The 5000 square meters of the Grande Halle are transformed and invite you to live an extraordinary experience at the heart of monumental works, from the most inflated to the most colorful.

"Pop Air" is an innovative and tailor-made format in which art, artist and public coexist.

"Pop Air" promises to be the unmissable event for young and old, curious and keen on unusual experiences.

From April 14, 2022 to August 22, 2022

Location: the Great Hall

Open every day from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Price: 20€

Metro: Line 5 Porte de Pantin station

Tram number 5 Porte de Pantin station

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) is an architect and creator of genius, who left his mark on Spain at the turn of the 20th century.

For the first time in fifty years in France, and at the Musée d'Orsay, a large-scale exhibition is dedicated to this master of Art Nouveau.

In an immersive museography, it will show the spectacular creations of this singular artist, notably presenting sets of furniture never exhibited in France.

Through the few surviving drawings by the artist, models and numerous works of furniture, the exhibition will reconstruct what characterizes Gaudi.

The exhibition will also endeavor to show the creative process of the architect in the midst of an exceptional local artistic profusion linked to "Modernism" or the Art Nouveau movement in Spain, supported by distinguished sponsors, anxious to distinguish the Catalonia, identity land of Mediterranean nature.

Date: until July 17, 2022.

Orsay Museum

1 rue de la Legion d’Honneur 75007 Paris

Price: 12€

Bus 73, Musée d'Orsay station

RER C station Musée d'Orsay

Line 12 Solferino station

A major figure in the art of our time, the American sculptor Charles Ray (born in 1953), is making cultural headlines: in dialogue with the artist, the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection is devoting a major exhibition to him.

The works of Charles Ray are part of a deep knowledge of the history of classical art and Antiquity.

Whether the work is produced in steel, cement, fiberglass, polished steel, or aluminum, Charles Ray's practice calls upon various processes, between artisanal work and cutting-edge industrial technology, always concealing its sometimes dizzying complexity. and the often very long time of its elaboration.

His artistic practice places the question of space at the center of his research and offers the viewer an experience of the relationship to reality, more complex, more mysterious.

The artist also has fun “making us look twice”. Even more: as much by their "strange familiarity", their ambiguity, as by their unspeakable precision that looks like prowess, Charles Ray's works destabilize, as if under the effect of a hallucination, almost managing to shake the space around them. they, reality itself, silently bringing the observer into a form of fiction.

The exhibition will end on June 06, 2022

Trade exchange: 2 rue Viarmes 75001 Paris

Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Closed Tuesdays and May 01

Price: 14€

Metro: line 1 station Louvre6Rivoli

line 4 station Les Halles

line 7, 11 and 14 Châtelet station

This show is written, directed and performed by Olivier Giraud.

In 2001, Olivier packed his bags and left for the United States. He obtained a 6-year visa, and quickly became Maître d'Hôtel in one of the most prestigious hotels on the East Coast, in Palm Springs, Florida.

With his professional experience on the other side of the world, Olivier was passionate about the cultural differences he observed between the French and the rest of the world.

He then decided to write a show about Parisians because his American clients always asked him the same question: "Why are Parisians so arrogant?" ". This show is written all in English, and will be interpreted as such.

After two years of writing, he presented his project to many entertainment professionals to obtain their support. Unfortunately his project is cataloged as doomed to failure. No one wants to bet on him, a choice is then necessary: ​​to create his own production company "La French Arrogance Production".

The show attracts both French and international spectators.

Date: until June 30, 2022

Venue: New Arrivals Theater

Address: 24 Boulevard des Poissonnières 75009 Paris

Price from 24€

Metro: line 6 and 9 Grand Boulevards stations

Buses: 85, 74, 48, 39 and 20

The band formed in 1962, and hail from London, England.

The original band was made up of guitarist and frontman Brian Jones (now deceased), pianist Ian Stewart (also sadly deceased), vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards.

Today the group is made up of Mick Jagger, still on vocals, as well as his sidekick Keith Richards, on guitar, and Ron Wood, also on guitar.

Today March 14, 2022, the legendary group announced a major European tour called Sixty, to celebrate the group's 60th anniversary.

With two dates in France. The first date will take place on July 19, 2022 in Lyon, and the second date in Paris at the Paris Longchamp racecourse on July 23, 2022, just after the Lollapalooza festival.

The tour will pass through 10 countries, for a total of 14 concerts. It will begin on June 1, 2022, and end on July 31, 2022 in the mythical city of Liverpool, where another great rock group, the Beatles, is from.

Places: Longchamps racecourse in Paris.

Address: 2 Routes des Tribunes 75016 Paris.

Price: from 56.50€ to 342.50€

Bus line 43 - Hippodrome de Longchamps station.

2 shuttles will be available: one leaving from Porte Maillot and one from Porte d’Auteuil.

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the decipherment of hieroglyphs, the François Mitterrand Library offers you an exhibition which focuses on the figure and discoveries of Jean François Champollion (1790-1832), father of Egyptology.

Barely 32 years old at the time, the young scholar exhibited his luminous interpretation of the graphic system of the ancient Egyptians.

Champollion thus offers the world knowledge of the names of the pharaohs who built the pyramids, the deciphering of the books of the dead found in the tombs and the understanding of a lost language and literature.

The exhibition includes nearly 350 pieces (manuscripts, prints, photographs, papyri, etc.), from the collections of the BNF and from exceptional loans, in particular from the Louvre Museum and the Egizio Museum in Turin. They will introduce the public to the “Champollion method”, and bring life back to a civilization that still fascinates today.

The exhibition also reveals the figure of the father of Egyptology but also of the man who was Champollion, his ardor, his immense curiosity, his temperament as well as his literary qualities.

From April 12, 2022 to July 24, 2022.

Francois Mitterrand Library

Quai Francois Mauriac 75706 Paris

Line 6 station Quai de la Gare

Line 14 Library François Mitterrand station.

RER C station Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand.

Price 9€

For the first time, the City of Architecture and Heritage is exhibiting 190 original pieces, on loan from one of the largest museums in Peru.

You will be able to discover frontal headdresses, funerary masks, imperial outfits, silver crowns and one of the most impressive collections of gold ever exhibited.

Beyond the traditional exhibition of remarkable archaeological objects, the exhibition is a real immersive experience in the universe of the societies of ancient Peru, which for more than 3000 years shaped the great history of the Andean civilization.

The City of Architecture and Heritage also offers augmented reality, which allows you to integrate visual and audible digital content (texts, images, videos, 3D animated objects). It also makes it possible to combine virtual and real objects, while reality literally allows the visitor to enter a monumental and virtual environment.

The experience thus offers the very first expedition to Machu Picchu in virtual reality.

From April 16, 2022 to September 04, 2022

City of Architecture and Heritage

Palais de Chaillot, 1 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre 75116 Paris

Metro lines 6 and 9, Trocadéro station.

Opening: Wednesday to Monday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

La Cité is closed on January 1st, May 1st and December 25th

Price: 9€

From March 11, 2022 until July 25, 2022, the Jacquemart-André museum is honoring the works of the Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931). Nearly seventy works will be presented there. From private and public collections, including exceptional loans from the Gallen-Kallela Museum in Espoo, Finland.

This time, the exhibition will retrace his entire career, on the theme of nature and the Finnish landscape.

The last major exhibition dedicated to him, in 2012, was organized by the Musée d'Orsay, which allowed the Parisian public to discover his entire career, thus contributing to the dissemination of Finnish art outside its borders.

The exhibition aims to reveal in greater depth the question of the relationship of man to nature.

Price: 30€

Address: Jacquemart-André Museum – 150, Boulevard Haussmann

75008 Paris

Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Metro: lines 9 and 13 stations Saint-Augustin, Miromesnil or Saint-Philippe du Roule.

Don't miss the England -France match on March 19, 2022!

A crunch at the top which promises to be the most hung match of the 6 Nations tournament and which will perhaps decide the winner of this 2022 edition.

At the Stade de France on Saturday March 19 from 9 p.m.

The show is an outlet for confinement and loneliness, inspired by the health crisis.

In a late-night atmosphere, Séverine Chavrier and the fifteen circus artists from the 33rd promotion of the Center National des Arts du Cirque, immerse us in an often dark universe, but which questions « How to resume the course of a normal life, when we were constrained in our individual and collective freedoms?

Chinese mat, hand to hand, acrodance, fabrics, swinging trapeze, fixed trapeze, flexible wire, Cyr wheel and acrobatic lifts, we will embark on an air show with raw energy punctuated by a rock’n’roll soundtrack.

Marquee area at La Villette.

From January 19 to February 13, 2022.

Wednesday to Friday at 8 p.m.

Saturday at 7 p.m.

Sunday at 3 p.m.

Price: 26€

Metro: line 7 Porte de la Villette station

Bus: number 139, 150 and 152 Porte de la Villette stations

Tram: line 3b station Porte de la Villette.

The Carnavalet museum commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Proust (1871-1922).

The exhibition is devoted to the relationship between Marcel Proust and the city of Paris, where most of his existence takes place.

The first part of the exhibition explores the Parisian universe of the writer. Marcel Proust's life took place in the heart of a very small space, a quadrilateral stretching from Parc Monceau to Place de la Concorde, from Concorde to Auteuil, from Auteuil to Bois de Boulogne and to Etoile. Thanks to Paris, this brings him a decisive dimension in the awakening of his vocation. In addition, his discovery of artistic and social circles in Paris, the friendships and loves that arise there, strengthen the personality of the writer and lead him to the revelation of his vocation.

The second part of the exhibition opens onto the fictional Paris created by Marcel Proust. By following the architecture of the novel "In Search of Lost Time" and through emblematic Parisian places, it offers a journey into the work and the history of the city, by focusing on the main protagonists of the novel.

Around 280 works (paintings, sculptures, graphic works, photographs, architectural models, accessories and clothing), manuscripts and archival documents, from public and private collections, French and foreign, will evoke the Parisian universe of Marcel Proust, oscillating between reality and reinvention.

The exhibition is open until Sunday April 10, 2022

Carnavalet Museum: 23 rue de Sévigné 75003 Paris

Open: Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Museum closed on January 1, May 1 and December 25.

Price: 11 €

Line 1: St Paul station.

Who did not grow up with this magnificent play, Molière's Avare?

The opportunity has come to discover or rediscover this great classic, which was written by Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière in 1668.

Molière portrays us with humor, his contemporary society and himself.

Molière deals with several subjects in this piece: greed in the first place, as well as domestic tyranny, selfishness and what today is called sexism.

Synopsis: Harpagon (played by Michel Boujenah), is an old father, who has loved money more than his own family, to the point that he suspects everyone of wanting to steal it. He imposes on his son Cléante, to marry a rich widow, and for his daughter Elise, a rich Noble much older than her. He does all this to get rid of them and to be able to marry Mariane, a beautiful young girl, much younger than him and penniless, with whom he has fallen in love.

The play will be performed at the Théâtre des Variétés from January 15, 2022 to April 10, 2022

Address: 7 Boulevard Montmartre 75002 Paris.

Metro: line 8 and 9 Grand Boulevard stations.

Price: from 14 €

Joséphine Baker, singer and dancer, will be the sixth woman, and first black woman, to enter the Pantheon.

This icon of the Roaring Twenties and music hall star will make its debut on November 30th.

Freda Joséphine McDonald, of her birth name, embarked with her troupe from New York to Paris in 1925. She played in prestigious venues such as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Folies Bergère.

At the start of World War II, Joséphine Baker became an agent of the French counter-espionage, all thanks to her associates with Parisian high society. In 1940, she enlisted in the secret services of Free France in France, then in North Africa and the Middle East.

Josephine Baker was a figure of anti-racism alongside Martin Luther King. She participated in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom organized by Matin Luther King. She will deliver a speech dressed in her Air Force uniform.

Joséphine Baker was also an icon of French haute couture. She was indeed very close to Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain. The lack of means at the end of the Second World War did not prevent him from wearing their dresses on stage upon his return from the United States in 1949-1950.

Paris Fashion Week is traditionally the last to be presented during Fashion Month, which sees a succession of parades in New York, London and Milan.

This fall, the Spring - Summer 2022 ready-to-wear collections will be presented from Monday September 27 to Tuesday October 05, 2021.

During the various parades, legendary houses follow one another, such as Balenciaga, Balmain, Chanel, Dior or Louis Vuitton.

Jacquemus and Marine Serre, fashionable designers, will also present their collection.

Some houses, in particular Saint Laurent, have decided to dispense with these dates and present their collections outside of calendars, due to the events of recent months.

As an invitation to dive into the teeming universe of Christian Louboutin, this exhibition explores all the facets of an inspiration with multiple references, in a place dear to the creator where his vocation was born.

Born in Paris in the 12th arrondissement, Christian Louboutin was fascinated as a teenager by the architectural beauty and the ornamental richness of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, which developed his love for the applied arts very early on. It is there, in this masterpiece of Art Deco, that the young Christian Louboutin is seized by a sign prohibiting the wearing of stilettos. He later inspired the iconic "Pigalle" shoe, which will be reinvented over the seasons.

The exhibition reveals the inspirations and the creative process of Christian Louboutin, and showcases the creator's vision through some of the most precious works from his personal collection as well as loans from public collections.

The American Grand Prix is a horse race taking place every year on the last Sunday in January at the Vincennes racecourse.

It is one of the three biggest international events with the Eliteloppet in Sweden and the Hambletonian Stakes in the United States.

This is an international group race reserved for horses from 4 to 6 years old.

The first edition took place in 1920 and ran over 2500m.

During the Second World War, the price of America had to be temporarily interrupted, but was resumed in 1945 following the liberation.

Today, the race is run over 2700m.

This year, the Grand Prix of America will take place on Sunday, January 26th, 2020, at the Vincennes racecourse.

Until January 27, 2020, Toulouse-Lautrec is the star of the Grand Palais thanks to the Albigeois museum and its chief curator.

The last major Toulouse-Lautrec retrospective in France took place twenty-seven years ago.

The new digital exhibition of the Atelier des Lumières, offers an immersion in the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh (1852-1890), genius ignored in his lifetime, which has upset the painting.

Marrying the entire space of the Atelier, this new visual and sound creation, traces the tormented life of the artist, who painted during the last 10 years of his life over 2000 paintings, now scattered throughout the world.

Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, the Netherlands. His work full of naturalism, inspired by Impressionism and Pointillism, announces Fauvism and Expressionism.

He grew up in a family of the old bourgeoisie, and first tries to make a career as an art dealer. Refusing to see art as a commodity, he is fired. He then aspires to become a pastor, but he fails the theology exams. At the approach of 1880, he turned to painting. During these years, he left the Netherlands for Belgium, then France to settle there. He then explores painting and drawing both as an autodidact and as a student.

However, his life is peppered with crises that reveal his mental instability. One of them causes suicide, at the age of 37.

In the United States, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. It traditionally marks the start of the end-of-year shopping period. Several traders take advantage of this moment to offer significant balances.

In France, Black Friday, mainly takes off on the internet. These important balances, are valid only 24h (traditional duration of Black Friday) or during all the following weekend. This commercial approach is becoming stronger in the French territory.

This is a French characteristic, because in the United States, during Black Friday, the big promotions take place directly in the stores. It's only the following Monday, called Cyber Monday, that merchants offer discounts on their website.

This exhibition invites you to rediscover the work of the master of silent cinema in its musical dimension and, more broadly, in its close relationship to dance, rhythm, the illusion of speech and sound, all rigorously "orchestrated" in each of his works.

Charles Spencer Chaplin, born April 16, 1889 and died December 25, 1977 in Corsier-sur-Vevey (Switzerland), is a British actor, director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became an idol of silent cinema thanks to his character Charlot.

Chaplin grew up in misery between an absent father and a mother in great financial difficulties, both artists of music hall. At the age of five, he made his first appearance on stage. At 19, he is noticed by the impresario Fred Karno and carries out a tour in the United States. He first appeared at the movies in 1914 in the film "To make a living".

In 1918, he became one of the most famous personalities in the world.

He later co-founded the United Artist company and thus gained complete control over his works

In 1972, the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences presented him with an Oscar of Honor for his invaluable contribution to the film industry, and many of his works are now considered as one of the greatest films of all time.

Beaujolais Nouveau is a first-class wine produced in the Beaujolais vineyards, within the Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages appellations of origin. Its main grape variety is Gamay.

The Conciergerie iorganizes an exhibition dedicated to Marie Antoinette. Through nearly 200 works, objects of art, archives, film extracts, fashion accessories ... you will discover the multiple representations of the last queen of France and Navarre.

The exhibition will be organized around five themes:

- Marie-Antoinette at the conciergerie

- The stories

- The images of the queen

- Fetish of Queen

- The returns of the queen

Article published on September 24th, 2019.

For one night, contemporary creation is in the spotlight in the city. It will take place in cultural establishments, prestigious monuments, unknown or usually inaccessible.

The capital becomes, from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. the day after, the place of all possibilities, where everyone can live an extraordinary artistic experience. As always, the event is free and open to everyone.

At nightfall on October 5, 2019, Paris will propose a parade in fanfare composed of contemporary artists and dancers, the transformation into luminous velodrome of a portion of the peripheral or the crossing of major cultural institutions Paris.

Article published on September 24th, 2019.

Quai Branly Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Since its creation in 1998, the museum maintains an acquisition policy aimed at keeping its collections alive and diverse. Visual stories of travel, photos, textiles, adornments or sculptures … Today, there are more than 77,000 pieces that have joined its storefronts and reserves over the last 20 years.

Date: from September 24, 2019 to January 26, 2020.

Address: 37 Quai Branly 75007 Paris – Direct access with the RER C at « Musée d’Orsay » station.