Incredible Shigeru Ban Pompidou-Metz Art Museum Rises in France Architecture. Design Architecture. 03/29/2010. under ... the narrow galleries jut through the roof to provide window space for ...

METZ, France — In 1977, the Pompidou Center opened as France’s answer to the growing worry that New York had replaced Paris as the capital of modern art. It was a controversial and complicated ...

Planting the huge new venue in Metz, a town of 130,000 people in what was once part of Germany, its creators aim to shift the gravity of France's national art collections, which critics say is ...

METZ, France — From afar, the new Pompidou museum in this postindustrial landscape resembles an enormous snow-white toadstool rising out of a wasteland. The avant-garde shape of the building in ...

With its distinctive golden glow and one of the world’s largest expanses of stained glass, France’s Gothic icon is – on its 800th birthday – still adapting to the times.

The results range from faithful reproductions to complete reinventions of renowned works by artists such as Delacroix, Goya and Vermeer ...

Chiara Parisi has been lined up as the next director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, replacing Emma Lavigne, who was named president of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Serge Lasvignes, the president of ...