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• Pompidou Centre apologizes for broken artwork

  - 2008-05-15

  PARIS AFP — The Pompidou Centre said Thursday it had apologized to US contemporary artist Corey McCorkle after one of his artworks broke when it fell to the floor of the Paris museum. The hanging plexiglass spiral tower created in 2006 broke in two and was chipped when it...

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• Marie-Antoinette: a walk through the life of a queen

  - 2008-03-14

  PARIS AFP — Feckless child-queen or tragic victim of history's march? From the nursery to the scaffold, a major Paris exhibition on Marie-Antoinette takes a look at the divisive French monarch through hundreds of belongings and artworks associated with her life. Starting with her childhood in the imperial household...

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• Bangladesh cancels French museum show after theft of rare artefacts

  - 2007-12-25

  DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh cancelled plans to send rare artefacts to Paris for a museum exhibition next year after two ancient statues of a Hindu deity were stolen en route to France. The 1,500-year-old rare terracotta statues of the Hindu god Vishnu disappeared from Zia International Airport in Dhaka...

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• Giacometti's work-in-progress spotlighted at huge Paris art show

  - 2007-10-24

  PARIS AFP — Swiss artist and sculptor Alberto Giacometti once bragged he could produce a work of art in just a night. But a major exhibition of his works at Paris' George Pompidou shows that to be untrue. Titled "The Workshop of Alberto Giacometti", the show which runs until...

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• Sex and war: how conflict changed the way we make love

  - 2007-10-05

  PARIS AFP — Paris, August 1944. The picture shows a bloodied German officer, dead on the street outside Harry's Bar. On an armoured car the soldier who shot him smiles. A pretty girl has climbed aboard. She approaches the soldier with a look of pleasurable intent. Since the face...

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• Model and photographer is the surreal thing in London show

  - 2007-09-15

  LONDON AFP — From surrealist muse to unflinching chronicler of the Second World War, a new London exhibition charts the "jigsaw puzzle" career of United States model and photographer Lee Miller. "The Art Of Lee Miller", at the Victoria And Albert Museum until January 6 2008, features images of...

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• African modern art exhibition finishes world tour in Africa

  - 2007-06-24

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — Africa Remix, an exhibition of African contemporary art that has attracted hordes of visitors to the world's biggest museums, ends its tour with a first time opening on the continent in Johannesburg Sunday. Launched in 2004 in Dusseldorf, Germany, before making its way to London, Paris,...

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• Picasso masterpieces on world tour next year

  - 2007-06-20

  PARIS AFP — About 350 masterpieces of the Picasso Museum in Paris are going on tour early next year with a first exhibition planned in Madrid before heading to Japan and possibly China during the Olympic Games. The Picasso Retrospective is set to travel to Abu Dhabi and the...

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• New York museum pays homage to late 'king of fashion'

  - 2007-05-14

  NEW YORK AFP — Despite emancipating women from the corset and revolutionizing early 20th century fashion, French designer Paul Poiret has largely been forgotten by time, overshadowed by rivals such as "Coco" Chanel. But now, more than 60 years after Poiret's death, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is...

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• Post-war everyday art of "New Realists" back in spotlight

  - 2007-03-27

  PARIS AFP — The mangled metal and wierd constructions of brooms, bottles and other everyday objects made familiar to the babyboom generation as art, go on show in Paris this week in the first major exhibition of the 1960s school of "New Realism" in two decades. From Niki de...

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