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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.
Art
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.
In Brief
Four Years Later, Man Still Fighting Facebook for Censoring Courbet’s “Origin of the World”
It's been more than four years since French teacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas, after posting a link to a documentary about Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du Monde" (1866) on Facebook, returned to the social network to find the post removed and his profile suspended.
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Paris Pledges €80 Million to Fix Historic Buildings, but Much More Is Needed
The city of Paris will spend €80 million (~$85.9 million) over the next five years fixing up and restoring the 96 historic buildings it is responsible for maintaining.
In Brief
Envisioning Eco-Friendly Architecture in Paris
Paris City Hall commissioned Vincent Callebaut Architectures to design a series of environmentally beneficial buildings.
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Artist Ticked Off at Watchmaker's Unauthorized Use of His Work
The Saudi artist Ahmed Mater is suing watchmaker Swatch for using one of his works to sell a luxury timepiece.