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photo©rmn 8th April to 10th August 2009 Centre Pompidou.See also Calder exhibition 18th March to 20th July 2009.	Kandinsky This very significant retrospective exhibition taking place in the Pompidou Center is dedicated to Vassily Kandinsky’s artistic career. It is organized by the Pompidou Center, the Stadtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus of Munich and the Solomon R. Guggenheim of New York, which holds the world’s largest collection of the artist’s work. One hundred of his works, especially ‘impressions’ and ‘improvisations’, are presented to the public. An artist of extraordinary creative power, Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and died in France in 1944 a French citizen. He was co-founder of the ‘Blaue Reiter’ school of the German Expressionists with Franz Marc, and also a teacher at the ‘Bauhaus’ at the invitation of Walter Gropius. He was well known as the inventor of Abstract Expressionism, but recent discoveries of his early works in Russia and this new exhibition of his work attest a far greater scope to his work and personality— a spiritual quality comparable to great musical composers.	Centre Pompidou 19 rue Beaubourg, Place Georges Pompidou, Paris 4th Metro: Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville RER: Châtelet/Les Halles Open: every day 11:00 to 21:00 (tickets until 20:00) Closed Tuesdays & 1st May Price: 5.50 - 10 Euros The Atelier Brancusi: from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. (except Tuesdays) Phone: 01 44 78 12 33
© rmn 27th February to 15th September 2009	Utrillo-Valadon Exhibition in Paris Pinacothèque This is an exhibition of Utrillo’s entire White period (1910-1914), characterized by a predominance of white from using plaster, together with his mother’s work, Suzanne Valadon, who provided guidance to the self-taught, self-destructive Montmartre artist. Both mother and son led bohemian lives— Utrillo roaming the Montmartre cafés with his friends Modigliani and Soutine, and Valadon living to the full an artist’s life first as a circus acrobat, then as a model to Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir and Degas, while having love affairs with Toulouse-Lautrec and Eric Satie. But their romanesque lives hid two talented artists who had a strong yet contradictory relationship that enriched their lives and their work.	Pinacothèque de Paris 28, place de la Madeleine 75008 Paris Open: Every day 10:30 to 18:00 Metro: Madeleine Price: 9 Euros Phone: 01 42 68 02 01
photo © rmn 30th June to 13th September 2009	Max Ernst: A week of Kindness (Une semaine de bonté) – Original collages 184 original collages that make up ‘A week of Kindness’ (a graphic novel by Max Ernst) are exhibited in Orsay Museum. These original collages were created in three weeks at Vigoleno in the north of Italy where the artist stayed during the summer of 1933. The collages were pieced together from wood engravings, found in popular illustrated novels, or natural science magazines or 19th century sales catalogs. Max Ernst then reinvented the themes freely giving each scene his own fantastic visions, the titles of which contrast sharply with the themes (power, violence, torture, murder and catastrophe). He mixed with this whirlwind of artistic vision mythological allegories, allusions to Genesis, fairy tales, legends, bits of his dreams etc. creating a poetic virtual world. The exhibition follows the publication of the original illustrated novel, even to the walls of the exhibition reproducing the color of the binding of the five volumes.	Musée d'Orsay 62, rue de Lille/1 rue de la Légion d'Honneur, Paris 7th Metro: Musée d'Orsay or Solférino Open: 10:00 to 18:00 Thursdays until 21:45 and Sundays from 9:00 to 18:00 Closed: Mondays Price: 8.50 Euros (Museum + temporary exhibitions). Photography gallery, ground floor. Information at 01 40 49 47 50