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What’s on in the museums of Paris in 2012?
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Discover our selections of exhibitions which will light up the first half of 2012 in the museums of Paris.
Petit Palais - Beaux-Arts Museum of the City of Paris
 La dernière moisson (The last harvest) - Rabindranath Tagore
From 27 January to 11 March
One year after the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Indian artist Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the Petit Palais will present to the public approximately 85 of his paintings on paper. Eclectic, lavish and abundant, his work, particularly his paintings, constitutes a vital artistic link between India and the rest of the world. Tagore appeals to the whole world and still inspires the most modern artists in India today.
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J.M. Sert, le Titan à l'oeuvre (J.M. Sert, The Titan at work) (1874-1945)
From 8 March to 5 August
The immensity of his body of work and the strength of his personality make Sert a universally admired artist in his time. The Petit Palais will allow the public to rediscover J.M.Sert, the Titan at Work (1874-1945) and open the doors to his workshop to show the strength of his art, the originality of his method and the brilliance of his life.
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Art Moderne Museum (MAM)
Eko Nugroho - Témoin hybride (Hybrid Witness)
From 13 January to 31 March
Eko Nugroho (born in 1977 in Indonesia where he lives and works) produces wall paintings, videos, fanzines, cartoons and collages as well as embroideries whose high degree of technical skill and surrealist and humorist imagery are deeply rooted in the counter-culture...
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 Resisting the Present - Mexico 2000/2012
From 9 March to 8 July
In its ARC (workshop for research and creativity), the MAM will bring together 24 Mexican artists born after 1975, who have been heavily involved in the development of their country over the last two decades and have acquired a reputation on the international scene.
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Crumb
From 13 April to 20 August
Crumb was the founding author of the underground in 1967 and is an iconic reference point in American counter-culture. The exhibition will be an opportunity to see the everlasting richness of his original drawings. They will be viewed alongside his notebooks of sketches and a number of underground magazines which show a creative freedom which is still biting today.
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Christopher Wool
From 30 March to 19 August
Christopher Wool, who was born in Chicago in 1955, lives and works in New York. He is currently one of the best known painters of his generation and a major figure in American art. Famous for his paintings/letters in black and white, he experiments with many different techniques in his work, including stencils, silk-screen printing and photoshop.
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Carnavalet Museum: Eugène Atget and Emmanuel Pottier
From 18 April to 29 July
Discover the Parisian work of the photographer Eugène Atget (Libourne, 1857 - Paris, 1927), photographs which are very rarely shown to the public.
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And in the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) in Paris?
All exhibitions at the Hôtel de Ville are free!
 Doisneau, Paris Les Halles
The first photo which Robert Doisneau took of Les Halles dates from 1933. He remained faithful to this district for 40 years, constantly returning to visit it and to follow its changes and latest developments.
This exhibition will present 150 prints to the public, most of them vintage.
From 8 February to 28 April 2012 - Free
Hospitality room - 29, Rue de Rivoli. 75004 Paris – Metro: Hôtel de Ville
Les enfants cachés: Déportation et sauvetage des enfants juifs à Paris, 1940-1945 (The hidden children: the deportation and saving of Jewish children in Paris, 1940-1945)
The exhibition presents the complexity and diversity of Jewish childhoods faced with the Holocaust. From the date of the "rafle du Vél d’Hiv" on 16 and 17 July 1942 (round-up of Jews in the Paris Winter Velodrome during the Second World War), the age of Jewish children no longer protected them from barbarity. 4,051 children aged under 16 were arrested and sent to the camps at Drancy, Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers.
From July to October 2012 - Free
Hospitality Room – 29, Rue de Rivoli - 75004 Paris – Metro: Hôtel de Ville
In the other museums
At the Grand-Palais
Beauté animale: de Dürer à Jeff Koons (Animal Beauty: from Dürer to Jeff Koons)
From 21 March to 16 July
Through major works, the exhibition explores the relationships between the artists and the animals.
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Orangerie Museum: Debussy, la musique et les arts (Debussy: music and arts)
From 21 February to 11 June
The exhibition will highlight the important meetings between the musician and the artists and poets of his time, evoked mainly through the collections of three families of friends who supported him during the difficult years which preceded the creation of Pelléas and Mélisande: those of the painter Henry Lerolle (1848-1929), the composer Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) and Arthur Fontaine (1860-1931), State Councillor.
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Orsay Museum: Degas et le nu (Degas and the Nude)
From 13 March to 1 July 2012
This exhibition explores Degas’ development in his portrayal of the nude, from the academic, historic approach of his early days to the time when the body became part of modern art during his long career.
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Arts décoratifs Museum: Trompe l’œil, imitations, pastiches et autres illusions (Trompe l’œil, imitations, pastiches and other illusions)
From 2 February 2012 to 15 November 2013
Trompe-l’œil (in English, “deceive the eye”), as its name indicates, is intended to deceive the eye and was originally found in painting. In decorative arts, this deceiving of the eye took on very varied forms. Some media such as wallpaper were ideal for this form of expression. From the most modest to the most sumptuous, they all imitate materials, from wood, lacquer, tiles, straw and velvet to paintings with their frames.
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Pinacothèque de Paris (Paris Art Gallery): Les masques de Jade (The Jade Masks)
From 26 January 2012 to 10 June
The Pinacothèque de Paris continues its exploration of Pre-Columbian and Mesoamerican cultures. Following the success of the L’Or des Incas: origines et mystères (Origins and Mysteries of the Inca’s Gold) exhibition, the Pinacothèque de Paris is presenting the most important archaeological discovery of the last decade in Mexico: the jade mosaic masks.
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