Going out

01Dec

Don’t miss Basquiat.

Written by jamie, the 01 December in category Going out, 0 comment

Many key exhibitions are scheduled in Paris around Christmas-time. One of Jamie’s favourites is the one dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Musée d’Art moderne. From the Saint James Paris, it will only take you a pleasant walk through the chic streets of the 16th district to access it.
In spite of his too short career – less than 15 years, Jean-Michel Basquiat managed to produce many works of various influences and to define a violent and dark underground culture that is surprisingly full of freedom and vitality. This exhibition in which over a hundred of works have been put together is the largest ever dedicated to Basquiat. A must see!


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13Aug

During your stay at the Saint James, visit the Musée Marmottan-Monet!

Written by jamie, the 13 August in category Going out, 0 comment

The museum assembling the biggest collection of worls by Claude Monet is without a doubt the Musée Marmottan-Monet, located at nr 2 rue Claude Boilly. It is very easy to access it from the Saint James Paris, especially during a little summer walk in the neighbourhood!
This summer, the musée Marmottan-Monet unterlines the influence Claude Monet had on the Abstraction movement. 44 Impressionist and Abstract art works have been put together for a striking comparison. You will see works by Rothko, Hofmann, Still, Pollock, Krasner, Tobey and others.
Do not hesitate to contact us during you stay, our concierges would be pleased to organize tickets for you!

 


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07Jun

Exhibition at the Musée Guimet

Written by jamie, the 07 June in category Going out, 2 comments

Within a few minutes walk from the Saint James, the Musée Guimet focuses on a quite unknown civilisation that flourished in Gandhara between the 1st and 6th centuries A.D. As a place of culture and exchanges located North-West of the actual Pakistan, Gandhara developed a culture based on various sources. Nourished by Greek influences after its conquest by Alexander the Great, this civilisation bloomed with Persian and Indian inspirations. The exhibition puts together 200 exceptional Greek-Buddhist works that testify of this world that found and created its own brilliant civilisation between the Roman world (West) and the Han Chinese world (East). To discover before August 16th.


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14Apr

A couple of sculptors: the Lalannes

Written by jamie, the 14 April in category Going out, 0 comment

Let the Lalannes surprise you! The musée des Arts décoratifs has organized a big retrospective dedicated to Claude et François-Xavier Lalanne, these sculptors who found their inspiration in nature and animals. Over 150 pieces from monumental sculpture to objects of the everyday are displayed in three spaces in a setting imagined by the architect Peter Marino in the nave of the Arts décoratifs. If Claude focused on electroplating and themed her work on nature, François-Xavier preferred hammering to picture animals.  An exhibition to discover until July 4th. While you’re at it, stop for a drink on the terrace of  “Le Saut du Loup” with a magnificent view on the Tuileries garden.

Le trône de Pauline Le trône de Pauline

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12Jan

A tribute to children of artists at the Orangerie

Written by jamie, the 12 January in category Going out, 0 comment

It is difficult to grow up around an artist, or so they say! The Saint James has chosen to recommend you a visit of the exhibition “Les Enfants Modèles” at the Musée de l’Orangerie.
History of art hardly ever mentions an artist’s entourage. People surrounding, supporting or simply loving artists are mostly not taken into account. Among those though, their children have often posed for them. It is true for sculptors (Belmondo, Petit, Carrière) as well as for painters (Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Lempicka…). Discover this exhibition in which their portraits or sculptures by their father or mother are presented together with their memories about this specific time during which they got to play a specific role in their parents’ creations.

 


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11Oct

The subversion of images

Written by jamie, the 11 October in category Going out, 0 comment

Apart from the exhibitions recommended by our brilliant members of the « Clefs d’Or » in their « Concierges’ Gazette », we also advise you to pay a visit to the Centre Pompidou. Until January 11th, the exhibition « the Subversion of Images » puts together over 400 surrealist artworks, among which the finest proofs by Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Jacques-André Boiffard, Maurice Tabard, Raoul Ubac and of course Man Ray.

For the first time, you will also discover collages by Eluard, Breton or Artaud, as well  as photographic games from Léo Malet and Victor Brauner. Misappropriation of the image, superposition, collection, publication and advertising are as many founding notions of surrealism that could be directly applied to the art of photography.

 


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