At the Palais de Tokyo, mounting an exhibition loosely about infection, during a pandemic, presents its challenges.
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When Fire Becomes Another Word for Revolution
At the Palais de Tokyo, Our World is Burning allows 30 artists to express the dream and necessity of a sustainable future in an egalitarian world.
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Palais de Tokyo Dismisses Donor for Call to “Shoot Down” Activist Greta Thunberg
Bernard Chenebault, president of Amis du Palais de Tokyo (Friends of Palais de Tokyo) in Paris, called Thunberg a “madwoman” who “we must shoot down” in a Facebook post on Sunday. He was dismissed from his position the following day.
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How the Evil “Other” Was Conceptually Constructed Over Centuries
Artists Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel’s transcultural and transgenerational collaborative exhibition attempts to face down and recover from human evil through the superfluity of artistic imagination.
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The Enduring Delight of the Diorama
At Palais de Tokyo, selections from nearly two centuries of enclosed models cater to our eagerness to be voyeurs.
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PETA Condemns Performance Artist Who Incubated Nine Chicks Himself
Abraham Poincheval hatched the chicks during his performance “Oeuf” at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, but it’s “no cause for celebration,” as the animal rights group wrote.
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After Auction House Censorship, Reporters Without Borders Cancels Benefit Art Sale
An art auction intended to benefit the organization Reporters Without Borders has been canceled after the Israeli embassy in Paris complained about one of the featured works.
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A Sobering 360-Degree Video Visualization of Climate Change Data
Unless you’re living under a global warming-denying rock, you’ve probably heard lots of apocalyptic data related to climate change.
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An Installation that Squeezes the Art Out of Painting
PARIS — Soon, the desire for art that distinguishes itself from pop culture might become like how drugs used to be: a transgressive, covert endeavor.
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Mourning the Death of Art on the River Styx
PARIS — If you already know that the wizard of entertainment has been swimming in the heart of art, a small boat excursion in the dark sounds more like summertime diversion than enlightening art. And indeed it is.
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The Irresistible Pull of Takis’s Magnetic Fields
PARIS — Takis, a key post-war figure known for exploring magnetic field energy, was one of the avant-garde artists of the ‘60s that was most able to mix art with science, paving the way for all sorts of artistic directions in the ensuing decades, right up to our electro days.