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Le Meurice is the first Parisian palace to receive the ‘Écotable’ label for its fine dining restaurant, Restaurant le Meurice Alain Ducasse. Écotable audits restaurants for their enviroment-friendly and ecological practices, for which the dining establishment received three ‘macarons’, the highest rating possible.

Ossip Zadkine, Studio Life

The renowned Belarusian-born French sculptor Ossip Zadkine spent almost 40 years, from 1928 to 1967, at home in his ateliers and gardens situated on rue d’Assas in Paris. Forty is also the amount of years the Zadkine Museum is celebrating for its anniversary having opened in 1982. The museum marks the occasion with the exhibition ‘Ossip Zadkine. Une Vie D’Ateliers’ which highlights a hundred works, a formidable selection of some of Zadkine’s greatest masterpieces.

Ossip Zadkine. Une Vie d’Ateliers Until 2 April 2023 100 bis rue d’Assis 75006 Paris

For the first time, Musée Rodin presents an exhibition highlighting sources of inspiration from Egyptian art for the celebrated sculptor Auguste Rodin. The result is an unveiling of this unique cultural dreamscape that he explored for modernity. All About the Kimono

Musée du Quai Branly is dedicating an exhibition to one of the most iconic garments in Japanese culture, the kimono. Having first appeared more than a thousand years ago, and becoming a main staple of national costume in Japan’s 17th century Edo era, the kimono would go on to influence the global scene of pop culture and fashion for the centuries to come.

Across 40 works and six sections, an exhibition at Musée Maillol covers the realistic representation of bodies in art history, exploring the world of hyperrealistic artists such as Duane Hanson, John Deandrea, George Segal and more.

Hyperrealisme. Ceci n’est pas un corps Until 5 March 2023 Musée Maillol 59-61 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris

80s Revisited

An exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs brings together over 700 artworks including objects, furniture, fashion designs, posters, photographs, videos, album covers and fanzines, retracing the 80s, a frenzied decade that became synonymous with eclecticism.

Anni & Josef Albers

The Musée d’Art Moderne welcomes new additions to their permanent collection. Following the exhibition ‘Anni and Josef Albers, Art and Life’, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation made an exceptional donation of fifty-seven works. An opportunity to explore works by these key figures in the Bauhaus movement.

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris 13, avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Carole A. Feuerman, Catalina, 1981 © Courtesy of the artist and Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tübingen, Le Palace Magazine — N°12, 1982 © DR, Josef Albers Tautonym (B), 1944 © 2022 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2022

‘On The Roads to Samarkand, Wonders of Silk and Gold’ at the Arab World Institute presents the dazzling splendour of costumes and other regalia of Uzbek culture from the 19th to early 20th century. A series of unique works, from gold-embroidered royal coats to horse-gear, are being displayed for the first time outside Uzbek museums.

On The Roads To Samarkand: Wonders of Silk and Gold Until 4 June 2023 Institut du Monde Arabe 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris for ticket reservation visit: www.imarabe.org

Unframing Colonialism

The exhibition ‘Unframing Colonialism’ at the Centre Pompidou revisits the emergence of a photographic sentiment in 1931: reacting to the Paris Colonial Exhibition in Vincennes in 1931, which attempted to paint colonialism in a positive light. At the time, artists of France’s Surrealist movement mobilised against France’s imperialist policy. The “Unframing Colonialism” exhibition proposes to review this unique episode in history and the visual images generated at the time when photography was in its early stages within the press and publishing industries.

Unframing Colonialism Until March 27, 2023 Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris

An exhibition at Musée de l’Homme casts a new light on prehistoric artistic practices, connecting them to today. Splendours of the Oases

The exhibition ‘Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases’ at the Louvre takes us back in time and space to what was once The Great Silk Road in modern day Uzbekistan, Central Asia.The exhibition unites 180 artefacts showing the rich and fabulous history of this land.

The Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases Until 6 March 2023 The Louvre, Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris Man Ray, Noire et Blanche, 1926, coll. MNAM / Centre Pompidou, Anthropomorphs, Holocene period, no date © Jean-Loic Le Quellec, Head of a prince © Art and Culture Development Foundation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, photo by Andrey Arakelyan

city guides… 43 The 7th floor of Hôtel Plaza Athénée displays a touch of Art Deco flair with its 22 rooms and suites designed by Bruno Moinard and Claire Bétaille. Given a sleek opulence and brighter styles, the woodwork has been lightened, as have the hues in the furnishings, with an added emphasis on angularity and lines overall.

Hôtel Plaza Athénée 25 avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris T. +33 1 53 67 64 00

Legendary Artists Trails

Guests at Le Meurice are given the unique experience of following in the footsteps—quite literally—of legendary artists Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet. Picasso (who had his wedding banquet at Le Meurice) had his first Parisian atelier in Montmartre. The Picasso trail is a two-hour, expert-guided tour of the Parisian neighbourhood, reputed for its bohemian artist lifestyle, featuring the sites and scenes that contributed to making the artist the legend he has become. For Monet, the trail begins right outside Le Meurice at the Tuileries Garden, which was the subject of his 1876 painting ‘Les Tuileries’, and ends at the Museé de l’Orangerie which houses the artist’s ever-iconic water-lily panels.

Le Meurice 228 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris T. +33 (0)1 44 58 10 10 E-mail: guestexperience.LMP@dorchestercollection.com Montmartre © Alex Zouaghi

Giuseppe Penone

Giuseppe Penone is an Italian sculptor, a prominent figure in contemporary art known for his impressive tree sculptures, an avid drawer, and a member of the Arte Povera movement. In 2020, the artist made a major donation to the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris of 328 drawings covering fifty years of creation from 1967 to 2019. A current exhibition at Centre Pompidou reveals a large part of the donation to the public. He has a personal approach nourished by philosophical reflection and poetry on the relationship between man and nature. “I draw like I take notes,” explains the artist who always has a piece of paper with him. And drawing, like sculpture, is for Giuseppe Penone a way to transcribe the gesture, to reveal the form.

Giuseppe Penone: Dessins Until 6 March 2023 Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris

Writers’ Accolade: Le Prix du Meurice

Showing another side of the artist, ‘Frida Kahlo, au-delà des apparences’ at Palais Galliera, brings visitors closer to her private life through 200 objects from Casa Azul, her home.

Frida Kahlo, au-delà des apparences Until 5 March 2023 Palais Galliera, 10 Av. Pierre 1er de Serbie, 75116 Paris

Following the success of the first edition of Le Prix du Meurice, Le Meurice’s literature prize, the hotel will be launching the second edition in June of 2023. Le Prix du Meurice seeks to recognise literary extravagance—be it in subject matter, writing style or in the personality of the author. The winner of the prize is awarded a cheque of 3,000 euros along with a three night stay at Le Meurice. The first edition’s winner was Louis-Henri de la Rochefoucauld with his novel, ‘Châteaux de Sable’.