Festival Fnac Indétendances
  • 20
  • Jul
  • 2009

Leave it to Paris’s largest music store to put on one of the best free outdoor music festivals of the summer, as part of the ever-popular Paris Plage.

From July 25 to August 15, concerts will be held every Friday and Saturday, 5-10 p.m.

Festival Fnac Indétendances

Born in the streets – Graffiti
  • 20
  • Jul
  • 2009

At Fondation Cartier they have an exhibibition starting July until November about Graffiti.

Occupying the entire gallery space of the Fondation Cartier, as well as the building’s façade and surrounding garden, the exhibition brings to light the extraordinary development of an artistic movement that was born in the streets of New York in the early 1970s to rapidly become a worldwide phenomenon. Today, graffiti has entered the cultural mainstream, crossing over to the realms of studio art, design and advertising. Yet, despite its immense popularity, this essentially illegal activity continues to evolve at the periphery of the contemporary art world, its origins and history little-known to the general public.

The exhibition traces the origins of the graffiti movement while offering a panorama of the diversity of contemporary writing. It provides the public with the opportunity to rediscover an art both ubiquitous and continually evolving, and thus relate to the city in a new way.

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 261, boulevard Raspail,75014 Paris

Open every day, except Monday, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.Open Tuesday evenings until 10 p.m.

Free Admission for visitors under 18 Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

 

 

Access

Métro: lines 4 et 6, stations Raspail ou Denfert-Rochereau

Paris Plage
  • 19
  • Jul
  • 2009

(July 20-August 20) by Klein, Fodor’s Editor

For an entire month, the right bank of the Seine is transformed into a long, sandy beach, with lounge chairs and tables with umbrellas, activities (especially for kids), and even public art and fountains. It’s an extremely popular place to be—and not just on sweltering weekends. This year, there’s a “green” spin on the plage, with recyclable materials used to build wooden decks and cabins along the river’s banks.

It’s the most emblematic event of the Parisian summer: the expressways along the side of the Seine between the Tuileries gardens and the Pont de Sully are shut off to traffic for a whole month and 1,800 tons of sand are added! And 50-odd palm tress! And a lot more (deckchairs, water fountains, cafés…)! And there’s the same thing on the Bassin de la Villette too!

Paris Plage,

Barack Obama at Musée Grevin
  • 17
  • Jul
  • 2009

Barack Obama will be seen next to Nicolas Sarkozy,Angela Merkel and Vladimir Poutin.

But before the wax version of Barack Obama will be integrated in the museum, it did a little walk in front of the Eiffel Tower to take some photos. Of course many people were troubled by seeing this.

The wax version of Obama is made by the sculptor Eric Saint Chaffray. He used photos and video images to realise his work.

Musée Grévin, 10, Boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris  – M° Grands Boulevards