Glassware for Use and Pageantry
Musée des Arts Décoratif
Bordeaux (Aquitaine)
Through March 30, 2014
www.bordeaux.fr
This exhibit focuses on the du Mesnil collection of antique glassware, from the Renaissance to the 19th century, including a particularly remarkable set of Venetian glass. For four months, the visions of two collectors – one public, the other private – are united under one roof.
Orientalism from Delcroix to Marquet
Galerie des Beaux-Arts
Bordeaux (Aquitaine)
April 3 to June 30, 2014
www.musba-bordeaux.fr
The museum will exhibit a large and rich selection of Orientalist artworks from its own collection, all dating from the second half of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th.
Photographs from the U.S. West Coast, 1860-1960
Galerie des Beaux-Arts
Bordeaux (Aquitaine)
August 28 to November 17, 2014
www.musba-bordeaux.fr
As a sister city to Los Angeles, Bordeaux will host a major collection of photographs on loan from the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). The exhibit covers a century of photography, from black-and-white images to color, and from Pictorialism to the emergence of photography as an art form.
Ettore Sottsass, An Architect in the Studio
Musée National de la Porcelaine Adrien Dubouché
Limoges (Limousin)
Through April 8, 2014
www.musee-adriendubouche.fr
Brought together for the very first time, the complete collection of Ettore Sottsass vases created at the Sèvres porcelain factory is here presented alongside the four glassware series Sottsass conceived at CIRVA (International Centre for Research on Glass and Visual Arts) in Marseille between 1997 and 2012. Sottsass is considered one of the greatest designers of the 20th century.
The Blue Route
Musée National de la Porcelaine Adrien Dubouché
Limoges (Limousin)
June to September, 2014
www.musee-adriendubouche.fr
This exhibit travels from the Mediterranean to China along the fabled Silk and Spice Routes, highlighting the many different "blues" so critical to the trade roads' commercial, intellectual and cultural vitality, such as the indigos used with textiles; the turquoise, lapis lazuli and sapphire of the Ottoman Empire; and Chinese blue porcelain.
20th Anniversary of the Stained-Glass windows in the Abbey of Sainte Foy
Conques (Midi-Pyrénées)
Spring 2014
www.tourisme-conques.fr
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the stained-glass windows in the Abbey of Sainte Foy. The Abbey of Sainte Foy, a gem of Romanesque art on St James's Way to Santiago de Compostela, is incontestably a unique monument. Since 1994 it has boasted a set of remarkable contemporary stained-glass windows created especially for it by Pierre Soulages. This spring, the abbey will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the installation of the 104 plain-glass stained-glass windows that illuminate the abbey with an incomparably beautiful play of light.
Benjamin-Constant Retrospective
Musée des Augustins
Toulouse (Midi-Pyrénées)
October 4, 2014 to January 4, 2015
www.augustins.org
As part of the Franco-American cooperation agreement FRAME (French Regional American Museum Exchange), the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts have joined forces to present an exhibition dedicated to Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and his influences. A major practitioner of Orientalist art, a portrait painter who became the darling of British high society in the late 19th century, and the great decorative painter of his day (whose work includes the Opéra Comique, Gare d’Orsay and Hôtel de Ville in Paris and the Capitole in Toulouse), Benjamin-Constant also enjoyed great success across the Atlantic. This is why a vast number of his works feature in the collections at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. As the city's museum of fine art where Benjamin-Constant was trained, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse will center its approach on the artist and his influences.
Bears, Myths and Realities
Museum de Toulouse
Toulouse (Midi-Pyrénées)
www.museum.toulouse.fr
October 11, 2013-June 30, 2014
The major exhibition 'Bears, Myths and Realities' produced by Toulouse Natural History Museum, recognised by the French Ministry of Culture as an 'Exhibition of National Importance', invites the visitor to reflect on the singular relationship that man has with animals. The exhibition features some remarkable specimens on show for the first time, including the panda Yen Yen, a gift from Maoist China to President Georges Pompidou, and Cannelle, the last member of the indigenous Pyrenean bear population, tragically killed by a hunter in 2004, and later stuffed at the museum's taxidermy department.
Toulouse Lautrec – Maurice Joyant: The friend, the collector
Toulouse Lautrec Museum
Albi (Midi-Pyrénées)
October 25th, 2014-January 25th, 2015
www.museetoulouselautrec.net
Celebrating the 150th birthday of renowned fin de siècle painter, this exhibit sheds a unique light on the relationship between Lautrec and his friend Maurice Joyant.
Outrenoir
Musée Soulages
Rodez (Midi-Pyrénées)
May 2014
musee-soulages.grand-rodez.com
The opening exhibit of this brand-new museum dedicated to the work of major contemporary artist Pierre Soulages, it will study the interplay of light and dark by working with material. This “outrenoir” or “ultrablack” series has enjoyed great success throughout the world.
Impressionism and the Americans
Musée des Impressionnismes
Giverny (Normandy)
March 28-June 29, 2014
Exhibition Website
Focusing on the development of impressionism in America between the years 1880 to 1900, the exhibition features 70 paintings by renowned American artists such as Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.
Cathedrals 1789-1914, A Modern Myth
Fine Arts Museum of Rouen
Rouen (Normandy)
April 12-August 31, 2014
www.rouen-musees.com/
Gustave Doré (1832-1883): The Power of the Imagination
Musée d’Orsay
Paris
February 11-May 2014
Exhibition Website
Gustave Doré is without doubt one of the most prodigious artists of the 19th century. At barely fifteen years of age he began a career as a caricaturist and then professional illustrator – which brought him international fame – before embracing all areas of creativity: drawing, painting, watercolour, engraving and sculpture.
Amos Gitai, Architect of Memory
Cinémathèque française
Paris
February 26-July 6, 2014
www.cinematheque.fr/
A poetic voyage in the archives of the architect Amos Gitai that explores several themes including: borders, wasteland, architecture, language and writing, history and mythology, sensuality and more.
Dries Van Noten
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Paris
February 28-August 31, 2014
Exhibition website
The fashion designer has been invited to illuminate his world and creative vision through use of his collections and those of the museum. As a first step in this process, 19th Century prints selected from the Museum’s archives by Dries Van Noten have been replicated and applied to garments of his collection for Men for his spring/summer 2014, unveiled on June 27th 2013 during the Paris Collections.
Vincent Van Gogh / Antonin Artaud. The Man Suicided by Society
Musée d’Orsay
Paris
March 11-June 15, 2014
Exhibition Website
A few days before the opening of a van Gogh exhibition in Paris in 1947, gallery owner Pierre Loeb suggested that Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) write about the painter. Challenging the thesis of alienation, Artaud was determined to show how van Gogh’s exceptional lucidity made lesser minds uncomfortable. Wishing to prevent him from uttering certain "intolerable truths", those who were disturbed by his painting drove him to suicide. Based on the categories and the unusual designations put forward by Artaud in Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society, the exhibition will comprise some thirty paintings, a selection of van Gogh's drawings and letters, together with graphic works by the poet-illustrator.
Clémenceau, the Tiger and Asia
Musée des arts asiatiques Guimet
Paris
March 12-June 16, 2014
Exhibition Website
One of the most influential figures of his time, Clémenceau was also an avid collector of Asian art. This exhibition regroups Clémenceau collection, comprising around 800 objects.
Gotlib
Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme
Paris
March 12-July 20, 2014
Exhibition Website
Focusing on the work of major French cartoonist, Marcel Gotlieb, this exhibit features nearly 200 original works along with photo archives, writings and audiovisual material.
Sky Under the Roof: Drawings for Parisian Ceilings in the Grand Siecle
Louvre Museum
Paris
Until May 19, 2014
Exhibition Website
Ceiling decoration underwent a profound shift in the 1700s. The shift from flat ceilings to vaulted ones inspired artists to develop innovative treatments that played with compartmentalizing space, alternating layers of illusion and organizing narrative, ornamental and emblematic registers.
Joséphine
Musée du Luxembourg
Paris
April 2-July 20, 2014
Exhibition Website
To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the death of the Empress Josephine, the exhibition brings together personal mementos and major works from her prestigious art collections. From her Creole origins to her marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte, from her role as a sovereign to her life after divorce, visitors are invited to enter Josephine’s private world and discover a modern woman who was passionate about travel, music and gardens.
Chocolat, patrimoine universel
Grand Palais
Paris
www.grandpalais.fr
April 17-21, 2014
The Grand Palais will host a special event on the theme of chocolate.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Musée d’Orsay
Paris
June 24-September 30, 2014
Musée d’Orsay
French sculptor and painter, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux came from an unusual background: his father was a bricklayer and his mother a lacemaker in Valenciennes. He was to pursue an exceptional career closely related to the "imperial party" of the reign of Napoleon III. Although he set off on a dazzling path within the arts, he was also seen to incarnate the romantic idea of the "cursed artist". He died aged 48, and his fifteen-year career was marked by great violence and passion, as he tirelessly strove to capture the subjects of his choosing or which were commissioned (the Pavillon de Flore of the Louvre, La Dance for the Garnier Opera House). This retrospective is the first since 1975 to be dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculptor, painter and designer, and the exhibition will explore the work of this major figure of late nineteenth century French sculpture, whose work, according to Alexandre Dumas, was "more alive than the living."
FIAC- Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (International Contemporary Art Fair)
Grand Palais
Paris
October 23-26, 2014
www.fiac.com
Bringing together a high-profile mix of contemporary art collectors, museum curators and international dealers, this internationally renowned art fair will take place October 23-26, 2014.
Durand-Ruel
Musée du Luxembourg
Paris
October 15, 2014-February 8, 2015
www.museeduluxembourg.fr/en
One of the greatest art dealers at the turn of the 20th century, Paul Durand Ruel was a key figure in the history of Impressionism. This exhibit features eighty works from his archives, including paintings, designs, photographs dating from around 1860 to the beginning of the 1900s.
Les Rencontres d'Arles" - Arles Photography Festival
Arles (Provence-Alps-Cote d'Azur)
July 7 to 13, 2014 (exhibitions until September 21)
www.rencontres-arles.com
Launched in 1970, this annual summer photography festival celebrates unseen works, and shares new photographic techniques, processes and concepts. Special this year is an 80th-birthday tribute to Lucien Clergue, the festival's creator.
Visages, Picasso, Magritte, Warhol
Centre de la Vieille-Charité
Marseille (Provence-Alps-Cote d'Azur)
February 21 to June 22, 2014
vieille-charite-marseille.org
The human figure is the unifying theme of 150 works of art – paintings, sculptures, photographs and film clips – by 80 famous modern and contemporary artists.
The Art and Architecture of Josep Lluís Sert
Maeght Foundation
Saint-Paul de Vence (Côte d'Azur)
April 5-June 9, 2014
www.fondation-maeght.com
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Maeght Foundation, the exhibition will be largely devoted to the architecture of Josep Lluís Sert , who designed the building housing the foundation. The exhibit will vividly discuss, in a broader sense, the history of this extraordinary project whose realization mobilized so many great artists and writers of the 1960s.
1964-2014: Fifty years of masterpieces at the Maeght Foundation
Maeght Foundation
Saint-Paul de Vence (Côte d'Azur)
June 28 –November 11, 2014
www.fondation-maeght.com
This exhibit showcases some one hundred masterpieces, from Pierre Bonnard to Bernard Moninot to Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and Pierre Soulages, Miquel Barceló and François Rouan. Readings and lectures will illuminate this story. A major concert is also being prepared.
Paintings for art in all its forms: music, dance, visual arts and writing at the Maeght Foundation
Maeght Foundation
Saint-Paul de Vence (Côte d'Azur)
November 29 – March 2015
www.fondation-maeght.com
Devoted to the performing arts offering exhibitions of different themes where the works of artists will meet music, dance or poetry.
Biennale du Design
Saint-Etienne (Rhône-Alpes)
2015
www.citedudesign.com
International exhibition on design taking places throughout the city.
