French Vision

Most cultures depict opposing forces that compete for the world in a necessary struggle without end. Theogonies, myths and festivals organise the understanding and continuation of the struggle of these great cosmic principles.
The exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris places the spotlight on the figureheads of disorder such as gods and spirits like Dionysus, Seth Typhon, the Pale Fox, Exu and so on.

The exhibition presents the characteristics of these spirits’ allies (intercessors), the persistent attempts at conjuration, or use of such forces in our secular societies.

From Wednesday, April 11 2012 to Sunday, July 29 2012

Quai Branly Museum – Musée du quai Branly
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris

In spring, the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris at is devoting an exhibition to the master of the Italian Renaissance: Cima da Conegliano.

Together with Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio, Cima da Conegliano was among the greatest painters working in Venice in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, when the city became one of the most brilliant centres of the Italian Renaissance.
The exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum offers the public the chance to discover this artist, and with him, an unexpected side and some secret facets of the history of Venice.

From Thursday, April 5 2012 to Sunday, July 15 2012

Musée du Luxembourg
19 rue de Vaugirard
75006 Paris

• RER: line B, to Luxembourg (exit Jardin du Luxembourg)
• Metro: line 4, to Saint Sulpice; line 10, to Mabillon
• Bus: lines 58, 84, 89, to Luxembourg ; Lines 63,70, 87, 86, 93, to Saint Sulpice