The Centre Georges Pompidou is holding a retrospective exhibition devoted to Gérard Garouste, one of the most important contemporary French painters, born in 1946, who is a figurationist without concession. Gérard Garouste was a student at the Beaux-arts de Paris at the end of the 1960s, and his reading of Marcel Duchamp’s interviews with Pierre Cabanne prompted him to defy the ban on painting at a time when conceptual practices were the order of the day. Thus, he became a painter, in the most traditional sense of the term, focusing on technique, which he never ceased to perfect, by observing the masters in the Louvre: Poussin, El Greco, Tintoretto… In the 1980s, he began to create large paintings under the sign of Greek mythology, to which he superimposed his personal mythology around the figures of the Classic, the Indian, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, which, according to him, is in all of us. Alongside 120 major paintings, often of very large format, the exhibition also gives a place to the sculpture and graphic work. This exhibition allows us to grasp the full richness of Gérard Garouste’s unclassifiable career, whose life of study, but also of madness, and his enigmatic work, feed off each other in a striking dialogue. With his large figurative canvases, the artist revisits the history of art through the genres of painting, which he seeks to exhaust. The exhibition dedicated to him follows step by step the path and the personal mythology of one of the most important French painters.   Museum : Centre Georges Pompidou Address : Place Georges Pompidou 75004 Paris Price : 15€. Schedule: open from Wednesday to Tuesday from 11am to 9pm. Metro : Hôtel de Ville station lines 1 and 11 Châtelet station lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14 RER : Châtelet-les Halles lines A, B, D

On their heads, on their backs, on their shoulders, at arm’s length or close to them, for centuries they have carried children, transported wood, water, food, bricks or mountains of cotton. Follow them through this exhibition, which reveals the spectacular burdens they carry. American photographer Lekha Singh pays tribute to the women of the world. Each in their own way, women carry a part of the world. It is time to bring them into the spotlight, and this is what the American photographer does so brilliantly. On the tracks of the fields, the roads of the markets, the paths of the villages or the tumult of the cities, you will follow sportswomen, mothers, doyennes with ankles cracked by the heat of the day or teenagers who put their nascent strengths to the test.   Exhibition until 02 January 2023. Musée de l’Homme : 17 Place du Trocadéro 75016 Paris Open every day except Tuesdays, 01 January, 14 July and 25 December. Opening hours: from 11am to 7pm. Price: 13€. Metro: line 6 Station: Trocadéro

Like a taste of the holidays, every year for 20 years (and yes Paris-Plage is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year), the arrival of Paris Plage is the iconic event of the Parisian summer.For this new edition, the activities are concentrated on the two historic sites of the capital, the quays of the Seine from the Pont des Arts to the Pont de Sully and on the banks of the Bassin de la Villette.To blow out its candles with us, the City of Paris has gone all out. From July 9 to August 21, many summer activities take over the capital.On the program: free swimming, kayaking, shaded relaxation area, mist garden, petanque…Something to enjoy sunny days.Since 2002 and the publicized example of Paris, many French cities and foreign capitals have taken up this idea, such as Metz, Toulouse, Brussels and Jerusalem.

The 126th Rolland Garros French Tennis Tournament will start on Sunday May 22, 2022.Since 2006, Rolland Garros has traditionally opened on a Sunday with single matches over the first three days. Then the double matches will take place from Wednesday May 25, 2022 and the double mixes on Friday May 27, 2022.In total, the competition brings together 128 players, 64 double teams and 32 mixed teams.The men’s final will take place on Saturday June 4th and the women’s final is scheduled for Saturday June 12th.Price: from 40 eurosLocation: Stade Rolland-Garros, 3 Avenue Gordon Benett, 75116 PARIS.Line 9: Michel-Ange Auteuil, Michel-Ange Molitor stationsLine 10: Porte d’Auteuil, Michel-Ange Molitor, Boulogne Jean-Jaurès or Pont de Saint-Cloud stations

La Villette presents “Pop Air”, produced in collaboration with the Ballon Museum in Rome.After “Beyond the Limits” in 2018, a monumental exhibition by the Japanese collective teamLab, La Villette returns to an immersive and playful art project.Monumental works by more than fifteen international artists gathered for 5 months for a unique inflatable experience.The 5000 square meters of the Grande Halle are transformed and invite you to live an extraordinary experience at the heart of monumental works, from the most inflated to the most colorful.“Pop Air” is an innovative and tailor-made format in which art, artist and public coexist.“Pop Air” promises to be the unmissable event for young and old, curious and keen on unusual experiences.From April 14, 2022 to August 22, 2022Location: the Great HallOpen every day from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.Price: 20€Metro: Line 5 Porte de Pantin stationTram number 5 Porte de Pantin station

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) is an architect and creator of genius, who left his mark on Spain at the turn of the 20th century.For the first time in fifty years in France, and at the Musée d’Orsay, a large-scale exhibition is dedicated to this master of Art Nouveau.In an immersive museography, it will show the spectacular creations of this singular artist, notably presenting sets of furniture never exhibited in France.Through the few surviving drawings by the artist, models and numerous works of furniture, the exhibition will reconstruct what characterizes Gaudi.The exhibition will also endeavor to show the creative process of the architect in the midst of an exceptional local artistic profusion linked to “Modernism” or the Art Nouveau movement in Spain, supported by distinguished sponsors, anxious to distinguish the Catalonia, identity land of Mediterranean nature.Date: until July 17, 2022.Orsay Museum1 rue de la Legion d’Honneur 75007 ParisPrice: 12€Bus 73, Musée d’Orsay stationRER C station Musée d’OrsayLine 12 Solferino station

A major figure in the art of our time, the American sculptor Charles Ray (born in 1953), is making cultural headlines: in dialogue with the artist, the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection is devoting a major exhibition to him.The works of Charles Ray are part of a deep knowledge of the history of classical art and Antiquity.Whether the work is produced in steel, cement, fiberglass, polished steel, or aluminum, Charles Ray’s practice calls upon various processes, between artisanal work and cutting-edge industrial technology, always concealing its sometimes dizzying complexity. and the often very long time of its elaboration.His artistic practice places the question of space at the center of his research and offers the viewer an experience of the relationship to reality, more complex, more mysterious.The artist also has fun “making us look twice”. Even more: as much by their « strange familiarity », their ambiguity, as by their unspeakable precision that looks like prowess, Charles Ray’s works destabilize, as if under the effect of a hallucination, almost managing to shake the space around them. they, reality itself, silently bringing the observer into a form of fiction.The exhibition will end on June 06, 2022Trade exchange: 2 rue Viarmes 75001 ParisHours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.Closed Tuesdays and May 01Price: 14€Metro: line 1 station Louvre6Rivoliline 4 station Les Hallesline 7, 11 and 14 Châtelet station