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The Lifespan of Bauhaus Utopianism
An exhibition at Paris's decorative arts museum hones in on the myriad ways that students and teachers at the Bauhaus sought to integrate art, architecture, and design into total artworks.
Joseph Nechvatal
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Two Cy Twombly Exhibitions Marry Myth and Sensual Abstraction
By a playful amalgam of semiotics with scatology, Twombly redevised history painting into palimpsest poop.
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How a 19th-Century Painter Turned from Reality to Fantasy
In his early, clear-eyed paintings, Henri Fantin-Latour’s subject was the reality of the observable world itself. Toward the end of his career, faithful reproductions no longer satisfied the artist.
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Mapping Migrant Journeys onto Boats of String
A suspended, stringy installation of boat forms by Chiharu Shiota in a Parisian department store evokes the uncertainty and peril of migrants' journeys.
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The Making of Antoine Bourdelle's Early Modern War Monument
An exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle reveals the process behind its namesake's beguiling monument to veterans of the Franco-Prussian War.
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An Exclusive Glimpse of a Gilded Salon of Presidential Power
For his elegant new film, Laurent Grasso was allowed to film in the Salon Doré, the golden-hued office of the President of France.
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Pairing Charles Baudelaire’s Words with the Art of His Time
This exhibition gazes upon and bolsters the dandy’s deserved reputation as a discerning and witty art critic by demonstrating his relationship to life and Romanticism.
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The Mexican Modernists Who Found Success in Decadence
An exhibition at Paris's Grand Palais tracks art made in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the influence of the European avant-garde and Mexicans' celebratory attitude toward death.
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Oskar Schlemmer's Prophetic, Dancing Robots
An exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights the German artist's paintings, drawings, choreography, and costume designs that imagine the integration of humans and machines.
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Seeing Through Oscar Wilde's Dandy Façade
An exhibition in Paris explores the Irish wit's literary exploits, aesthetic tastes, and friendships with artists.
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A Uterus Flipping the Bird, and Other Images of Feminist Exasperation
In her drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations at Marian Goodman in Paris, Annette Messager deploys an iconography of anti-patriarchal anger rooted in the female body.
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Maurizio Cattelan Shines in Paris's Ostentatious Mint
The Italian hyperrealist jokester's simultaneously self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing works benefit from being sparsely installed in the ostentatious rooms of the Paris mint.