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Palais de Tokyo

Posted inArt

Antibodies and Oppositions: Artwork That Addresses Our New Normal

Avatar photo by Johanna Sluiter January 15, 2021January 14, 2021

At the Palais de Tokyo, mounting an exhibition loosely about infection, during a pandemic, presents its challenges.

Posted inArt

When Fire Becomes Another Word for Revolution

by Anahita Toodehfallah June 16, 2020November 5, 2020

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.

Posted inIn Brief

Palais de Tokyo Dismisses Donor for Call to “Shoot Down” Activist Greta Thunberg

by Hakim Bishara September 30, 2019September 30, 2019

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.

Posted inArt

How the Evil “Other” Was Conceptually Constructed Over Centuries

by Joseph Nechvatal May 11, 2018May 11, 2018

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.

Posted inArt

The Enduring Delight of the Diorama

by Jenny Che August 4, 2017August 4, 2017

At Palais de Tokyo, selections from nearly two centuries of enclosed models cater to our eagerness to be voyeurs.

Posted inNews

PETA Condemns Performance Artist Who Incubated Nine Chicks Himself

by Claire Voon April 24, 2017

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.

Posted inNews

After Auction House Censorship, Reporters Without Borders Cancels Benefit Art Sale

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 20, 2016

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.

Posted inArt

A Show of Love for John Giorno’s Poetry, Art, and Life

by Joseph Nechvatal December 22, 2015December 22, 2015

PARIS — Kudos to Ugo Rondinone.

Posted inArt

A Sobering 360-Degree Video Visualization of Climate Change Data

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne December 3, 2015December 2, 2015

Unless you’re living under a global warming-denying rock, you’ve probably heard lots of apocalyptic data related to climate change.

Posted inArt

An Installation that Squeezes the Art Out of Painting

by Joseph Nechvatal September 1, 2015September 1, 2015

PARIS — Soon, the desire for art that distinguishes itself from pop culture might become like how drugs used to be: a transgressive, covert endeavor.

Posted inArt

Mourning the Death of Art on the River Styx

by Joseph Nechvatal August 27, 2015August 28, 2015

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.

Posted inArt

The Irresistible Pull of Takis’s Magnetic Fields

by Joseph Nechvatal April 17, 2015April 21, 2015

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.

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