The events

The artists' studio.

For the 2012 school year, the Petit Palais in Paris enters the artists' studios with the exhibition Behind the scenes of Art - From Monet to Picasso.

This landmark exhibition illustrates the wealth of municipal

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Independent art scene in China.

The Jeu de Paume in Paris features an exhibition of photographs by Ai Weiwei next February.

Nearly 50 years after the photographer Berenice Abbott, in the early 1980s Ai Weiwei also chose New York as a field of...

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Collectors' paradise…

The International Antique Book and Print Fair is a major event, officially the most important festival of its kind in the entire world. It recently took up a sponsorship collaboration with the French Commission of Unesco.

This three...

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Exploring Mayan culture.

History enthusiasts as well as art lovers will be entranced by this exhibition which presents a collection of exceptional masks, restored by the leading experts in Mayan archaeology.

These masks represent the faces of divinity and their...

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A great photographer in New York.

This winter, after Lee Miller, Lisette Model, Diane Arbus and before Eva Besnyö, the Jeu de Paume gallery in Paris continues to highlight the work of women photographers of the twentieth century.

With Berenice Abbott, the...

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Dido's song.

Following Venus' advice, Aeneas flees from the soon be destroyed city of Troy. However, his wife, Creusa dies in the flames. Arriving at Carthage, Aeneas meets Dido, the queen of the city and they fall in love. However, this love does not...

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Let the race begin!

On July 1st 1903, Géo Lefèvre and Henri Desgrange, a journalist and director of sports paper L'Auto, decided to organise the first ever Tour de France. Starting in the town of Montgeron, 60 cyclists took to the streets for a 2,500km circuit...

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A very prestigious orchestra.

The London Symphony Orchestra is one of the most important orchestras on the international classical music scene today.

Established in 1904, since then it has won a reputation as a powerful musical authority, reinforced by its...

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Legendary race through the streets of Paris.

It was back in 1896 that the Paris Marathon was held for the first time, with 191 participants who started from the Porte Maillot.
After a period of absence, the marathon was re-established in 1976 as a large scale...

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Historic treasures of Egypt.

For the first time, at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris, an exhibition will be devoted to the finest artistic achievements of ancient Egypt during the ten centuries that separate the start of the third period to the end of the...

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