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ONLY BE PARISIAN
Only-Be Parisian
Matthew Bakkom in Paris
Until the 4th of November Les Arts decoratif Center in Paris exhibits Face à Face, a project by Matthew Bakkom. The exhibition explores the Paris disappeared in the nineteenth century, which is, found in the photographs and documents of Jules Maciet, who managed to concentrate the greater collection of images of his time. This exhibition is held with the support of the City of Paris and the international residency program from the French Institute, this project was done by the visual artist Matthew Bakkom, who carefully examined the photographic materials of Maciet and discovered a hidden treasure that decided to rescue it from darkness. In order to achieve his objective, he scanned portraits of a booming nineteenth century Paris, with delicate precision. With these portraits, the exhibition Face à Face is organized, which commemorates the centenary of the death of Jules Maciet and a publication entitled The invisible hand by Jules Maciet, in which Bakkom develops a poetic image and apply interesting processes to the work to convey a portrait of Paris Matthew Bakkom was born in Minneapolis, USA, in 1968. In the early 1990, he began working as a visual artist, exhibiting in North America and Europe his work. He has developed interesting projects that place him as an important conceptual artist. He has also conducted creative research collections and archives, which are often used as a basis for his work, while making very interesting proposals. Although his work is difficult to qualify in an artistic discipline, some critics define it as sculpture. In his later works he has used the scanner as an artistic tool to duplicate...Ladurée Paris
The Ladurée bakeries, spread around Paris, offer exquisite macarons and other sweets to take away or to sample in its shops.
Asterix Park Paris
Asterix Park is one of the must see attractions in Paris if you´re travelling with children and adults who refuse to grow up.
FIAC: International Contemporary Art Fair Paris 2011
The International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris, known as the FIAC, invades the Grand Palais and other emblematic places of the French capital from the 20th to the 23rd of October 2011. Design, film, sculptures, installations, over 2800 international artists and 150 art galleries await in open air or in super arty places! The Tuileries Garden, the Jardin des Plantes, the auditorium of the Louvre and the Grand Palais are the favourite stages of this artistic event. Founded in 1974, the Paris International Contemporary Art Fair will exhibit visual arts from the 20th and 21st century and all the fields of artistic expression from today and the emerging ones, such as painting, digital arts and video arts, in a historical monument next to the Champs Elysées: the Grand Palais. This building was built in 1900 for the World Fair in Paris, and it characterizes itself for having the biggest glass ceiling in Europe, an industrial internal structure made of steel and a classic style stone façade. In total, over 70,000 sq metres which are walked on every year by over 90,000 visitors during the days of the FIAC. The artists´ films, the performances, the film, the music, the dance, the theatre and other artistic practices will find a place by day or by night in the FIAC´s programme, to fascinate the French and foreign crowd. As well as this fair, Paris offers you other artistic choices from which we recommend an exhibition of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch at the Centre Pompidou, a photography exhibition by Diane Arbus at the Jeu de Palme or, for the sculpture lovers,...Existrans Paris
For nearly ten years, the transsexual collective claims for their rights in the Existrans march.
Chocolate Festival Paris 2011
Crunchy, fondant, sweet, sour, white or black: with chocolate, everyone has their own preferences. From the 20th to the 24th of October, you´ll have entire days to savour it in all of its ways thanks to the Paris Chocolate Festival, the biggest event in the world dedicated to cocoa. The 17th edition will take place in the Paris Expo Porte de Versaills precinct, where the international chocolate makers will be the masters of seduction. Forget about the gourmet masks made of chocolate for the face or hair and of all the myths about this delicious temptation. The Paris Chocolate Festival invites you to sample the new products of your favourite brands and discover the talent of artisans and chefs from around the world. This year, the art of baking will have no limits with the Pastry Show. The cake guide will be the queen of the capital sins! More than your palate, it will be your five senses who have an appointment with a ceremony of sensorial pleasures. Conferences, creative workshops, bookshop, live recipes, shows, samplings… the animation programme announces itself as cosmopolitan and rich for the whole crowd. If, in 2010, Lady Gaga disgusted the vegetarians with her dress of red, bloody meat, the famous fashion show of chocolate dresses that takes place every day during this Parisian festival usually seduces everyone with no exception. The meeting of fashion and gastronomy is undoubtedly an aphrodisiac cocktails which Chantal Thomass, a famous French luxury lingerie creator, will know how to shine as the godmother of this edition. Another divine event will be ´Duos on the table´ – ´duos sur...
Red Hot Chili Peppers in Paris
The Red Hot Chili Peppers is one of the world´s most famous rock bands that, with every one of their album releases, make millions of people run to their record shops to buy it or go crazy to get their hands on a copy. Thanks to Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary (better known as Flea), Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer, who replaced John Frusciante on guitar when he decided to go solo, this Los Angeles band become an example to follow. One of the most curious anecdotes of the Red Hot Chili peppers is that, when they released their first album, which has the name of the band and was presented officially in 1984, many critics went out to destroy the band for its extravagant and different sound, and they laughed in their face. Years later they´re the ones laughing at those critics. Today, they have 11 LPs, all of which were a success and in every single one of them, there were songs which became known to people around, even to those who never bought one of their albums. Some of the most famous songs that they have are ´Knock Me Down´, ´Suck My Kiss´, ´Give It Away´, ´Californication´, ´Otherside´, ´By The Way´, ´Can´t Stop´, ´Snow (Hey Oh)´, and many, many others. On this occasion, the California band released ´I´m With You´, which is their latest album which was officially presented on August 26th. The band is touring around the world to present it to all of their fans and, on this occasion, they will play two shows in Paris on the 18th and 19th of October at the...
Edvard Munch at Pompidou
Until the 9th of January, 2012 the Pompidou Center in Paris displays the most interesting and diverse work of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. With this exhibition, the Centre Pompidou seeks to show a different side of the painter, who was famous for his work The Scream, which the critics have typecast in symbolism. In this exhibition we will have the chance to appreciate the most modern of his work through his photography. The exhibition is organized with around a hundred and forty pieces, of which there are about sixty paintings, fifty photographs and several film experiences. It also shows sculptures by Munch for the first time. The interesting thing about this exhibition is the evolution of Munch’s work, who was obsessively remaking or repeating some of his works, while transforming in them, his own style. One of them is Girls on the Bridge, whose seven versions are a permanent dialogue between the artist and his work. In this painting, which belongs to symbolism, you can see some lines that are transformed into a slight expressionist nuance on his work, demonstrating the psychological traits of the artist and his constant search for the symbolic representation of his work. While Munch has been positioned as a symbolist and pre-expressionist of nineteenth century, whose mental anguish and tormented soul led him to paint the darkest side of humanity, the exhibition explores another Munch, who lived far from the active prejudice to transformations and aesthetic debates, opening other windows to the art of his time, through photography and the development of technology around image. His art nouveau style, led him to theater...Le Culture Hall Paris
A legendary place located a few steps away from the Paris Opera, a party and events hall which has been open for nearly a century.
White Night in Paris
During a whole night, Paris won´t sleep. They open museums, showrooms, monumental places, shops and it´s all completed with an appropriate cultural programme.
