Reporting from Metz, France — I came late to contemporary art. If a work wasn’t by Rembrandt or Van Gogh, I wasn’t interested. But I had friends who were, and gradually the questions asked ...

Here are some photographs of the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France by architects Shigeru Ban of Japan and Jean de Gastines of France, which will open to the public in May. The undulating laminated ...

The Centre Pompidou in Paris has an astounding collection of Modern art and a history of imaginative exhibitions, installations, events, and structures. Its 1977 building, designed by Renzo Piano and ...

Centre Pompidou-Metz (00 33 3 8715 3939; www.centrepompidou-metz.fr) is just south of the station, located on pretty much the spot where the Roman amphitheatre stood a couple of thousand years ...

But unlike its celebrated parent, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, built in 1977, the Metz Pompidou does not flaunt its innards to the world. The roof, a wooden frame covered with fibreglass and ...

Installation view of Fernand Léger: Beauty Is Everywhere at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Fernand Léger, “Le mécanicien” (1918), oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm ...

So it is in Metz, a sleepy French town some 200 miles east of Paris, where Kimsooja was invited to take over the entire second floor of Shigeru Ban’s triumphant Pompidou Metz Museum as part of a ...

“The Origin of the World” was one of several artworks targeted in a performance by artist Deborah De Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. The Centre Pompidou-Metz and Museum Tinguely have ...

A spokesperson for the Centre Pompidou-Metz confirmed that Courbet’s work had been defaced, adding that five works in total in the show were covered with the words “Me Too”.

Here are some photographs of the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France by architects Shigeru Ban of Japan and Jean de Gastines of France, which will open to the public in May. The undulating laminated ...