Open to the public in 1986, nearly ten years after its initial conception, the d’Orsay is a relatively recent addition to Paris’ ever-expanding stock of museums. Slated for destruction, the long empty Gare d’Orsay, across from the Tuileries on the left bank of the Se...
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Galerie Laurent Godin
The shape of things to come
Laurent Godin opened this Paris gallery in 2005, not far from the Centre Pompidou, after having run a public art space in Lyon....
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Galerie Crèvecoeur
From the heart
La Galerie Crèvecœur resides in Belleville, a quirky, emerging quarter of East Paris where more and more young galleries, off s...
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Galerie Hussenot
Cutting edge
Originally founded in 1988, Galerie Hussenot is a long established art hotspot, having exhibited numerous renowned internationa...
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Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau
A higher plane
Emerging from a lengthy struggle between the citizens of the 19th arrondissement and a real estate firm who planned to transfor...
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Bugada & Cargnel
Formerly cosmic
Founded by Claudia Cargnel and Frédéric Bugada in 2002, Bugada & Cargnel—formerly known as Cosmic Galerie—occup...
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Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Big bad Belleville
Founded in 2003, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff opened with a solo show by Clemens von Wedemeyer in a very small space in Belleville in ...
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La Gaîté Lyrique
A dazzling forum for the digital arts
The newly beautifully restored Théâtre de La Gaîté lyrique, is an experimental laboratory of all forms of cutting edge, pulsati...
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Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
From Picasso to Matisse and Soulages
Opened in 1961 in the eastern wing of the Palais de Tokyo, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris Museum of Modern Art...
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La Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Picture this
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie is a major centre for contemporary photographic art. A completely new kind of cultural...
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Musée National Gustave-Moreau
The man behind the mythologies
Some may say he was a bit of one-trick pony, but what 19th-century symbolist painter Gustave Moreau did, he did well. Moreau...
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