September à Paris is full of emotions: Fashion Week and la Rentrée Littéraire are two of my favorite events of the season. August, however, doesn’t feel the same way. Most Parisians leave the city to spend some proper weeks of farniente somewhere à la mer, meanwhile the city is filled with visitors from everywhere around the world.
Paris in August can be overwhelming if not well organized, due to long queues, or because some of the famed locations are closed. If you plan on coming this next month to Paris, here are a few amazing exhibitions you may consider to visit.
This private museum presents great collections of art while maintaining atmosphere of a mansion. The owners, Edouard André, a 19th century collector, and his wife Nélie Jacquemart, a portrait artist, travelled across Europe and the East to acquire rare works of art and furniture.
This summer, there’s a sumptuous selection of art owned by one of Spain’s wealthiest women, Alicia Koplowitz. The exhibition offers a glimpse into her very private world: “She turned to art as a kind of escape from being alone, and became extremely knowledgeable,” says Pablo Melendo, a former director of both Sotheby’s and Christie’s, who is curating the exhibition.
Goya, Canaletto, Guardi, van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, Gris, Gonzalez, Rothko, Freud, Giacometti, Bourgeois are just a few of the gems revealed in the exhibition.
*** Editor’s Note: While this exhibit may have ended, the museum itself is so lovely that it is still worth a visit. If you’re searching for an alternative exhibit, please scroll down to the bottom of this article. xR
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Palais Galliera pays hommage to Dalida with the exhibition “Une garde-robe de la Ville a la Scène“
Palais Galliera by @elodie_d37
Yolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), better known as Dalida, was an Egyptian-Italian French singer and actress. Dressed by the greatest designers both on and off-stage, in haute couture or in prêt-à-porter, everything about her was dazzlingly beautiful. The gilded frescoes of the grande galerie and la galerie Ouest display, in a unique Parisian elegance, the show-business side as well as the off-stage wardrobe of the star.
Dalida in Milan, April 1966 via Vogue Paris
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Musée des Arts Décoratifs holds this season, a magnificent exhibition: Christian Dior, “Designer of Dreams”
An iconic design inspired by Monsieur Dior’s favorite flower – the lily-of-the-valley – the ‘Muguet’ dress appeared in our founder’s Haute Couture Spring-Summer 1957 collection. Here it is being prepared for its star turn in the ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ exhibition, where it is on display in the Dior Gardens room. –via @dior
32, 000 square feet, the biggest Dior exhibition ever staged, filled with the Dior house’s work. The layout is both chronological and thematic, offering up the story of the creator, the house, the source of creation and the breadth of culture that Christian Dior and the designers who succeeded him possessed.
Archives with letters, photographs, and other never-before-seen documents from Dior’s early childhood, a rainbow palette of clothes, exceptional art objects and paintings, including by Monet, Renoir, and Vigée Le Brun are only a few details we can reveal in hoping you’ll go see the rest for yourselves …
Portrait of Jane Birkin by Guy Bourdin, 1969