The Pompidou Centre was derided by many when its design was first unveiled – yet its influence has been huge. As a renovation ...

Beaubourg, ouvert en 1977, bâtiment de 50 000 m 2 au cœur de Paris – 3,2 millions de visiteurs en 2024 –, fermera complètement en septembre pour cinq ans de travaux. Il faut désamianter, améliorer sa ...

Tandis que les expositions « Paris noir » et « Suzanne Valadon » restent ouvertes pour quelques semaines (avant Wolfgang Tillmans cet été à la Bpi), les collections permanentes du Centre Pompidou ont ...

The Centre Pompidou is one of the most visited cultural sites in Paris. But keep this in mind – and recent travelers attest to this – if you're not a fan of modern art, you probably won't ...

The voice of James Baldwin echoes through the galleries of the Centre Pompidou as an excerpt from Terence Dixon’s documentary Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970) plays on a repeating ...

With 3.2 million visitors last year, the Pompidou Centre is one of the most popular museums in Paris, ranking behind the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay in terms of attendance. Opened in 1977 ...

Known for his photographs of the civil rights movement, Gordon Parks spent two years in the French capital for 'Life' magazine, from 1949 to 1951. Here, he captured images of American expatriate ...

The opening of Paris's Centre Pompidou was marked by three exhibitions: "Paris-New York" in 1977, "Paris-Berlin" in 1978, and "Paris-Moscow" in 1979. Their purpose was clear: to write the history ...

The same was happening in Paris." The Centre Pompidou was partly inspired by the ultra-pop architecture of experimental London-based architecture collective Archigram. "The idea that France should ...