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Utopian Mirror Ball Sculptures at Paris Climate Conference Are Full of Hot Air
PARIS — The balls of Aerocene hang high above Solutions COP21, floating over ecocidal disaster-mongers as they sleepwalk visitors towards a total surveillance state.
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In Wake of Terrorist Attacks, France Looks to Fight ISIS with Cultural Preservation
This week, France announced two plans to fight back against ISIS’s cultural destruction. French culture minister Fleur Pellerin unveiled a $6 million fund that will help France’s cultural institutions recover from the recent attack.
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The Pompidou's Permanent Collection, Reinstalled Along the Lines of Art Theory
PARIS — Where the newness of art comes from (when it comes) is something of a conundrum.
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Finding Fulfillment in Images of Empty White Rooms
PARIS — The silence of Seton Smith was significant.
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French Graffiti Artist Goes to Court to Dispute the Sum of His Fine
The French graffiti artist Azyle, who was arrested in 2007 after 17 years of covering Paris's metro cars with his distinctive cursive tag, thinks he should pay for what he did.
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Illuminating the Wonders of Paris's Nuit Blanche
PARIS — It was nearly 2am and I was watching snow fall on the abandoned railroad tracks of the Petite Ceinture.
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Prends-Ça! A Paris Exhibition Invites Visitors to Take the Artworks with Them
PARIS — Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Monnaie de Paris revives and expands a 1995 exhibition curated by Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist at London's Serpentine Gallery, in which all the art is designed to be touched and taken away.
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Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Revealed from a Sunken City
Artifacts from a long-lost underwater city are going on view in Paris this September.
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The Story of France’s Mini Bastilles, Made from the Infamous Prison’s Rubble
Today is France's national holiday, known abroad as Bastille Day, and perhaps you have wondered: what became of all that stone after the goliath Bastille prison was stormed on July 14, 1789?
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Parisian Mural Successfully Provokes Right-Wing Vandals
A mural by the French street artist Combo in Paris has become the target of far-right vandals, including one nationalist blogger who filmed herself tagging the mural with the message, "Antiracism is a codeword for antiwhite."
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In Place of Love Locks, a Paris Bridge Gets Street Art
Francophiles were heartbroken last week when French authorities removed the iconic padlocks that lovers have been attaching to the Pont des Arts bridge for decades.
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Hopi Tribe Fights to Halt French Sales of Sacred Artifacts for Good
Wednesday morning, Paris's Drouot auction house proceeded with a contentious sale of objects sacred to the Hopi Tribe of northern Arizona.