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The best Parisian Instagram accounts to follow

With almost everything closed, it seems that the Parisian spirit faded away. We miss the city’s immense beauty and charm as well as going out to enjoy its countless restaurants and museums. Fortunately, there’s a wealth of Instagram accounts that bring back the City of Lights to life. Here are our favorite Instagrammers who encapsulate the very essence of Paris. Via: Raphael Metivet Raphael Metivet It’s easy to forget how wonderful is Paris when you are stuck in your apartment for most of the time. But with Raphael Metivet’s Instagram account, it is impossible not to reignite that love. The talented photographer based in Paris captures the beauty of Parisian architecture. From the Haussmannian style to Art Nouveau, Raphael Metivet takes his followers on an enthralling trip through the years to show them how architectural styles in Paris have changed over time. Through his camera lens, he also tries to tell personal…

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Museums to visit in post-confinement Paris

Even though many aspects of our pre-confinement life have to wait, life is slowly coming back to Paris. While restaurants, bars, and cafes mostly still remain closed, several small-sized Pasian museums are reopening after the quarantine. Le Musée de l’Illusion (opened on May 11) The newly opened Museum of Illusions is the first one on our list and probably the most bizarre one. This unique museum will make you question reliance on your senses because nothing there is what it seems to be as its only purpose is to trick your mind. Yet, it’s not only visually entertaining but also educational, so if you want to discover a bit of science in a fun way, that’s the place to visit. Safety measures: online reservation is highly recommended, but not mandatory. Entry is limited to 70 people a day (ten one-hour visits per day). The museum’s rooms are additionally prepared according to…

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Week-end Plan – Biennale De Lyon

November and December are full of national holidays when you have some extra days off of work or school, why not go outside Paris and enjoy some fresh air? Lyon, 2-hour TGV away and “the world capital of gastronomy”, comes highly recommended by The Non-Parisian. This time of the year, Lyon becomes ever more culturally vibrated with the Biennale. Usines Fagors Biennale is ever trendy in the contemporary art scene. La Biennale de Lyon, more creative, less commercialized, welcomes it’s 15th edition this year. “Where water comes together with other water” is this edition’s title and theme. A suitable title when Biennale de Lyon is all about artists from different cultural backgrounds coming together, and a clever title when there are rivers Saône and Rhône merging together in Lyon. From 18th September 2019 to 5 January 2020, three main venues of the Biennale: Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (MAC), Usines…

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Musée Zadkine – a museum to visit in autumn

Paris is one of the most beautiful autumn cities in the world, and where else embodies most vividly the spirit of the season better than those breathtaking Parisian gardens with trees enriched by all nuances in the color palettes of green and yellow. Luxembourg garden in the 6tharrondissement comes as our most recommended, however, if a public garden isn’t cultural enough to spend a Parisian autumn afternoon, here comes Musée Zadkine, a hidden gem right near Luxembourg garden! Bronze sculptures of Ossip Zadkine in the garden of Musée Zadkine The small yet lovely buildings and garden of Musée Zadkine was the house and atelier of Russian-french sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), one of the greatest masters of cubist sculptures. After his death, his widow donated the estate to the city of Paris and Musée Zadkine opened its door to the public in 1982. Since then, the museum regularly holds temporary exhibitions…

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Les Nabis et le décor at Musée du Luxembourg

Oneiric, vivid, joyous, rhythmic, rooted in nature and inspired by the Japanese “pictures of the floating world” (ukiyo-e). There are many words to describe the Nabis’ art who marked their presence in the late 19th century. Édouard Vuillard, The Music (1896) The Nabis were a group of painters whose mission was to assert their opposition to Impressionism, which they considered too close to reality. Inspired by mysticism and esotericism, they took their name from the Arabic word nabi (and the similar word in Hebrew – nebiim) which means prophet. Their goal was to revitalize paintings with their revolutionary and original style feeding on various philosophies, religions, and doctrines as well as literature, theater, and poetry. Maurice Denis, Legend Of Saint-Hubert (1897) The exhibition Les Nabis et le décor held in Musée du Luxembourg (located in the famous Luxembourg Gardens) gathers works of Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Sérusier, Ranson, and Vallotton.…

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Giacometti as Muse – FLORA at Institut Giacometti

In the quiet but charming district of Montparnasse, just 5 minutes’ walk away from the modern and refreshing Foundation Cartier building, hides yet another hidden gem of the 14th arrondissement. Institut Giacometti, who resides in a four-floor art déco hôtel with a modest size and an even more modest entrance, has just opened its door to the parisien public last summer. 5 rue Victor-Schoelcher, 75014 Paris This tiny museum dedicates the ground floor to a reconstructed atelier of Giacometti, with sculptures, drawings, tools and even a bed. Protected by glasses, the atelier as a whole is presented as an art piece and is the ultimate showcase for Giacometti’s charm. Atelier of Giacometti reconstructed In less than a year, the Institut has held three exhibitions to Alberto Giacometti and other contemporary artists whose works were inspired by the master. However, <Flora>, the fourth exhibition now (April 5th to June 5th 2019)…

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MUSEUM MONDAY – MUSÉE BOURDELLE

A hidden gem of the 15th arrondissement for sculptural art enthusiasts, as well as for people looking for a quieter place to visit, rest, without loosing touch of a true Parisian flavor. Small but charming, the Musée Bourdelle was the studio-home-garden of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929), student of Auguste Rodin, and teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, less known but an important figure in modern art history. From great halls to smaller exhibition rooms, from once active studios to outdoor spaces, the museum shows more than 500 works of the sculptor, including the most impressive marble, plaster, and bronze statues. The temporary exhibitions here are also beautifully themed and well organized. Visiting the museum is like traveling back to the late 19th century, thanks to the authentic taste of the studios the museum preserves. Choose a sunny day, visit and chat and even have lunch facing the beautiful garden, enjoying…

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REN HANG AT MAISON EUROPÉENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE

Housed in a grand hotel in the very heart of le Marais district, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, or ‘MEP Paris’ for short, is a must-go for contemporary photography lovers (try Jeu de Paume in the garden of Tuileries if you are more into more classical and modern period photography). In this rainy, grey Parisian spring, MEP holds the first ever exhibition in France dedicated to the late Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang, who took his own life at the age of 29 in 2017. An ingenious artist with an easily recognizable style of highly contrasted colors, Ren Hang shot his models, mostly his friends, all naked, genitals exposed and accentuated, bodies overlapped, in a crappy hotel bedroom, or inside a wild bush, or on a rooftop against the background of the smoky grey Chinese urban scene. More than 150 works exhibited show Ren Hang’s quest for identity, sexuality…

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THE COURTAULD COLLECTION AT FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON

Everybody loves the impressionism! Whether it’s the flower fields, riversides, train stations, or the scenes of lovely outdoor gatherings, balls and ballet performances, or the soul-touching self-portraits by our favorite artists… really, what’s not to love! However, this love didn’t come natural for anyone, it took time and tolerance and the help of visionary and generous collectors and art promoters. British entrepreneur and art patron Samuel Courtauld was the one that made British public fell in love with the impressionism and post-impressionism. And now at Foundation Louis Vuitton, after the sensational showcase of MoMA’s finest in Paris, they bring together the best of the Courtauld collection during the renovation of the London Courtauld gallery. 110 works, including the some of the best paintings by Manet, Seurat, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. It’s also the first time that many of these French masterpieces first came back home after six decades. To…

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