Schedule: Tue - Sun 10 am - 7.30 pm | Fri 10 am - 10 pm | Mon closed
Tickets: 15 €
Location: Grand Palais
Address: 7 avenue Winston Churchill
The exhibition All About Love by Mickalene Thomas, presented at the Grand Palais in Paris offers a deep investigation into the relationship between identity, visibility and the affirmation of Black women within contemporary visual culture. The artist explores love not as a simple emotion but as a transformative force that cuts across the history of art, representation and desire. The exhibition brings together more than twenty years of Thomas’s production and includes painting, collage, photography, video and installations. The female figures at the centre of her work appear with a raw, self-aware sensuality: friends, lovers, family members and cultural icons, all portrayed as protagonists of their own image. Decorative surfaces, set-like environments and shimmering materials are never ornamental, they serve to question the filter through which art history has looked at bodies and faces that do not conform to dominant cultural standards. Thomas revisits the Western art tradition without being confined by it. Compositional echoes of Manet or Ingres reappear in her work, but they become occasions to reclaim presence and agency. Rather than correcting a historical omission, her approach redefines the grammar of representation by repositioning the subject at the centre and overturning established hierarchies of the gaze. Within the museum space, the exhibition avoids a strict chronological approach and opts instead for a narrative built on resonances and contrasts. Large canvases interact with more intimate photographs, and collages converse with environmental installations, producing a fluid visual sequence that urges the viewer to confront not only what is being seen but the way in which seeing itself operates.
The retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris retraces Lee Miller’s path from Surrealist experimentation to wartime photography. From the 1930s to the European front, her work reveals a lucid and uncompromising gaze. A body of work that brings together personal experience and historical testimony.
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents the first major Paris retrospective dedicated to Brion Gysin, an unconventional figure of twentieth-century avant-garde culture, inventor of the cut-up and the Dreamachine, whose work moved between the Beat Generation and the international art scene.
The Opéra Bastille returns to the stage with Ercole Amante, an opera composed in 1707 by the Venetian Antonia Bembo. The production refocuses attention on a singular figure of the European Baroque, a composer and singer who found the space to develop her art at the court of Louis XIV.
The first major retrospective in Paris dedicated to Henry Taylor. Around one hundred works showcase the American artist's painting, built around portraiture and the depiction of everyday life, intertwining personal memory, African-American history, and a dialogue with modern tradition.
