A wedding, a rock star, a fashion legend, a master painter and 700 photographs. From the Marais to La Villette, Paris is putting on quite a show this season. Five exhibitions to get off the sofa and cross the Seine. Remember MeSeven…
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A heel without a heel, Aurélie Dupont’s pointe shoes, Usain Bolt’s spikes, a shoe imagined by David Lynch for Christian Louboutin… at Printemps Haussmann in Paris, more than 200 pieces tell the story of footwear as an object of desire, power, performance,…
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Photography, contemporary art, fashion: Milan is making the most of Fashion Week with a wave of new artistic offerings. From William Klein’s electric cities to Charmaine Poh’s digital identities, from Shilpa Gupta’s political art to Viktor&Rolf’s radical silhouettes, four newly opened exhibitions…
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At the Rencontres d’Arles, the exhibition Ghana! Dreaming Independence, 1957–1976 traces the way a newly independent country shaped its identity through images. Its curator, photography historian Damarice Amao, speaks to CITY about a long-term research project spanning official archives, photobooks, banknotes and…
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There is a moment when a tag stops being vandalism and starts becoming history, not because it has changed, but because the city around it has. This summer, Paris becomes the latest stop for Beyond the Streets, the international exhibition that, after…
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In Marseille, the Mucem is dedicating an exhibition to one of the most singular figures in French fashion. More than a retrospective, “Mossi Traoré, la mode aussi” explores a universe shaped as much by haute couture as by popular cultures, urban arts…
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Beauty has never been more visible, or more exhausting. At Bozar in Brussels, Picture Perfect gathers more than sixty artists to question the faces, bodies and fantasies we have been taught to desire. From rhinoplasty clinics in Tehran to queer portraiture, bodybuilding,…
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In Delhi, art does not whisper; it collides, transforms, negotiates with history. At the heart of this restless city, Pristine Contemporary has quickly become one of its most agile platforms. Founded by Arjun Butani and his partner Arjun Sawhney, the gallery moves…
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In New Orleans, artist Leonard Martin followed the movement of Carnival the way one follows a river. An experience of the city, of history and of the collective that profoundly transformed his way of painting, now on view at Galerie Templon in…
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