At the dawn of the XXe century, in the wake of the Orientalist wave in painting, Parisian high society succumbed to the charms of Persia. The couturier Paul Poiret draped the elegant women in turbans and velvet embroidered with arabesques; André Metthey decorates table services with Arabic calligraphy, Edmond Dulac illustrates a sumptuous reissue of … Read more
Published on : 08/01/2022 – 06:28 The video game ” Animal Crossing » invested by the Prado in Madrid, another mixing abstract art and puzzle launched by the Center Pompidou … The entanglement between museums and video game spaces is increasingly strong, at the risk of tending towards the “buzz” rather than towards a long-term … Read more
He has become the “American Indian” par excellence. In westerns or on our food packaging, the Sioux – and its feathered headdresses – all by itself represents the First Nations in the collective imagination. But how did the stereotype impose itself in our collective imagination? The exhibition “On the trail of the Sioux”, to be … Read more
From a golden dress of the court of Versailles to the red coat of the representatives of the people… This exhibition immerses us in the XVIIIe century through the incessant dialogue between fashion and painting. Born from exchanges between two curators of the Nantes Arts Museum and the Galliera Palace, the City of Paris Fashion … Read more