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Jeu de Paume

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The Quiet Dignity of Peter Hujar

by Eileen G’Sell January 18, 2020January 23, 2020

Hujar wrote that his portrait subjects were “those who push themselves to any extreme” and those who “cling to the freedom to be themselves.”

Posted inArt

An Artist Activates Histories Through Memory

by Ksenia M. Soboleva December 12, 2019December 12, 2019

In Zineb Sedira’s work, archival material is not dead and past, but is active, suggesting that there is no such thing as “frozen in time.”

Posted inNews

As “Yellow Vest” Protests Rip Through France, Paris Museums and Galleries Close

Avatar photo by Zachary Small December 3, 2018December 3, 2018

The Arc de Triomphe was vandalized and had one of its sculpture’s smashed by protesters while cars burned outside the Jeu de Paume and Orangerie.

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40 Years After His Death, Gordon Matta-Clark Takes on New Relevance

by Joseph Nechvatal September 4, 2018

The work of Gordon Matta-Clark, an artist best known for carving massive holes into derelict walls, has renewed symbolic power in today’s political climate.

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How Raoul Hausmann Went From Dada Provocateur to Sensual and Earnest Photographer

by Joseph Nechvatal April 20, 2018April 23, 2018

For Hausmann, who was one of the founders of Berlin Dada, realist nature photography became a preferred means of his post-Dada expression, picked up during his sojourns to the North Sea and Baltic coasts in the early 1930s.

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A Dutch Street Photographer Who Pursued Darker Truths

by Jenny Che August 22, 2017

A retrospective of Ed van der Elsken at the Jeu de Paume in Paris examines his embrace of youth culture and his travels around the world.

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The Power of Protest Art, from Goya to Polke

by Joseph Nechvatal November 22, 2016November 23, 2016

In Soulèvements, an ahistorical exhibition of art made for and about acts of protest, works either make their political agendas self-evident or embed them in their formal properties.

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A Photographer Who Captured Workers Without Romanticizing Them

by Joseph Nechvatal May 4, 2016May 4, 2016

PARIS — Poignancy pervades A Working Eye, the first comprehensive retrospective of François Kollar’s Constructivist-style photography that, through nuanced grays and deep blacks, dramatized French workers’ empowerment.

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A Painter’s Reflective (and Reflected) Photographic Portraits

by Joseph Nechvatal March 17, 2015March 22, 2015

PARIS — The use of mirrors in art has been a rich one, used by Pop, Kinetic, Minimal, and Conceptual artists. In this long tradition, the Jeu de Paume currently offers an additional point of reference.

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Something Special About Her, Eva Besnyö at the Jeu de Paume

by John Yau July 8, 2012July 11, 2012

The photographs of Eva Besnyö (1910–2003) are hardly known in America. This fact was made clear to me before my recent trip to Paris, when no one recommended that I go see an exhibition of her work at the Jeu de Paume.

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