At the beginning of 2025, the time has come to offer a review of the visits designed last year, as well as to give a little preview of the news of upcoming exhibitions.
Indeed, like any self-respecting guide, it is important not to rest on one's laurels, while being aware of the work done, the hours spent spotting, documenting, listening, and it is clear that 2024 was a year rich in visits.
Thus, thanks to the various opportunities offered to me by institutions, agencies or visitors who trusted me, I had the chance to offer guided tours in exhibitions as diverse as they were exceptional:
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson: "The Adventures of Guille and Belinda" by Alessandra Sanguinetti (January-May 2024), "The Autopsy of the Spectacle" by Weegee (January-May 2024), "Vernacular and Vehicular" by Stephen Shore (June-September 2024), "Remember to Forget" by Mame-Diarra Niang (October 2024-January 2025) and "The Inhabitants" by Raymond Meeks (October 2024-January 2025);
Musée d'Orsay: "Van Gogh. Last Days in Auvers-sur-Oise" (October 2023-February 2024), "Paris 1874. Inventing Impressionism" (March-July 2024); "Harriet Backer (1845-1932), The Music of Colors" (September 2024-January 2025), "Gustave Caillebotte. Painting Men" (October 2024-January 2025);
Centre Pompidou: "Hand to hand. History(s) of photography" (September 2023-March 2024), "Brancusi" (March-July 2024)
EDF Foundation: "Tomorrow is cancelled... art and views on sobriety" (January-September 2024), "Dans(e) la lumière"
Post Office Museum: "Marathon, the messenger's race" & permanent collections
Romantic Life Museum: "Géricault's Horses" (May-September 2024)
Sorbonne University: "Unfiltered research: photographers' views on science" (October 2024)
Jeu de Paume Museum: "Tina Barney. Family Ties" (September 2024-January 2025)
To which should be added unpublished conferences, which I had the opportunity to write and present within several institutions:
Issy-les-Moulineaux city center media library (92): cycle dedicated to surrealist women (Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Lee Miller), event celebrating the 30th anniversary of the city's media library network (Street art at the turn of the 1990s), or a cycle on art at the end of the 19th century (Gustave Caillebotte, Berthe Morisot, Universal exhibitions);
Jean Ferrat media library in Villeneuve Saint-Georges (94): The history of street art;
CCAS D'Élancourt (78): Gustave Eiffel
Finally, "permanent" walks and monuments have also been added to my catalog, such as the Montmartre of artists, the discovery of the private mansions and picturesque architectures of the Marais, the house of Victor Hugo, Place des Vosges, or the magnificent collections of the Rodin Museum, within the Hôtel Biron.
For this year 2025, I propose new guided tours of exhibitions or institutions:
Musée du Louvre: Revoir Cimabue (January 22 to May 12, 2025), Louvre Couture (January 24 to July 21, 2025);
Centre Pompidou: Suzanne Valadon (January 15 to May 26, 2025)
Quai Branly: permanent collections (all year)
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson: Marjaana Kella, The Other Side of the Portrait (January 28 to April 13, 2025), Karim Kal - Mons Ferratus (January 28 to April 13, 2025);
Musée d'Orsay: Art is in the Street (March 18 to July 6, 2025);
Musée Jacquemart-André: Artemisia Gentileschi (from March 19, 2025);
Musée Marmottan-Monet: Eugène Boudin (April 9 to August 31, 2025);
Musée Maillol: Robert Doisneau, Instants donnés (from April 17 to October 12, 2025)
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris: guided tour of the interior and exterior architecture of the cathedral, from June 9, 2025 (all year)
And as always, the must-sees of the Louvre (classical and off the beaten track), as well as the Opéra Garnier are on the program.
If one of these exhibitions interests you, or if you would like to organize guided tours of other exhibitions or monuments, do not hesitate to contact me to set up a tailor-made guided tour.
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