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Game Story
November 10 2011 – January 9 2012
Exhibition
South-East Gallery
Exhibition organised by Rmn – Grand Palais in collaboration with the National Museum of Asian Arts (Musée Guimet) and the association > MO5.COM
This exhibition marks the reopening of the South-East Gallery, a new exhibition area in the Grand Palais.
The video game is a young media that appeared at the start of the 1970s and has evolved constantly, perfecting its techniques, and establishing itself as a major cultural industry.
From the start, the new media has been at the centre of much discussion and analysis, focusing essentially on its social or personal impact on users. This exhibition consequently sets out to explore different angles: aesthetic and cultural.
The interactive hands-on exhibition offers visitors the chance to try out a selection of some eighty games, consoles and computers, tracing the history of video games from their appearance in the 1970s to the present day. It presents the imaginary worlds, serials, genres and graphic styles spawned by the video game. Combining animated imagery, music, dialogue, complex scenarios and interactive operation, video games have, over the years, become a cultural object in their own right and a veritable mode of expression.
Entrance fee: 8 euros - Reduced rate: 6 € - Rate for families (2 adults or 2 young people + 2 children): 22 €. Free for children under 5 years old.
Opening times : everyday from 12 am to 10 pm. Closed on Mondays, December 25 and January 1st. Closing times at 6 pm on December 24 and 31.
Access by the H bis door on the left of the main entrance.
See the event website
This exhibition marks the reopening of the South-East Gallery, a new exhibition area in the Grand Palais.
The video game is a young media that appeared at the start of the 1970s and has evolved constantly, perfecting its techniques, and establishing itself as a major cultural industry.
From the start, the new media has been at the centre of much discussion and analysis, focusing essentially on its social or personal impact on users. This exhibition consequently sets out to explore different angles: aesthetic and cultural.
The interactive hands-on exhibition offers visitors the chance to try out a selection of some eighty games, consoles and computers, tracing the history of video games from their appearance in the 1970s to the present day. It presents the imaginary worlds, serials, genres and graphic styles spawned by the video game. Combining animated imagery, music, dialogue, complex scenarios and interactive operation, video games have, over the years, become a cultural object in their own right and a veritable mode of expression.
Entrance fee: 8 euros - Reduced rate: 6 € - Rate for families (2 adults or 2 young people + 2 children): 22 €. Free for children under 5 years old.
Opening times : everyday from 12 am to 10 pm. Closed on Mondays, December 25 and January 1st. Closing times at 6 pm on December 24 and 31.
Access by the H bis door on the left of the main entrance.
See the event website
Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso... The Stein family’s adventure in art
October 5 2011 – January 22 2012
Exhibition
Les Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
The exhibition is organized by Rmn-Grand Palais, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. It will run from May 21 to September 6 2011 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and from February 1 to June 3 2012 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Barefoot in their Delphic sandals, they raised scientific brows to the sky.
Apollinaire [writing about the Steins], October 1907.
The Steins, an American family, moved to Paris in the early the 20th century: Gertrude, an avant-garde writer with her brother Léo at rue de Fleurus; Michael, the elder brother with his wife Sarah at rue Madame. The first buyers of Matisse and Picasso, they held open house to the artistic avant-garde of the period and built up one of the most astonishing collections of modern art.
This exhibition takes a look back at the family’s outstanding contribution to modern art. It shows the importance of the Stein family’s patronage for artists and how this commitment made a mark on the development of taste in modern art. It focuses on: Leo Stein’s perception of the sources of modernity, and dialogue with the intellectuals of the time; Gertrude Stein’s friendship with Picasso; her poetical writings and cubism; Sarah Stein’s links with Matisse; the collaboration between Gertrude and the artists of the twenties and thirties.
This major show will bring together an outstanding selection of works from the Stein family’s different collections: Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Manguin, Bonnard, Vallotton, Laurencin, Gris, Masson, Picabia and more. Divided into eight sections it will shed light on each member of the family: Leo, Sarah, Michael, and Gertrude.
Open daily, including Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Tuesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
During school holidays, open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., including Tuesdays.
Closes at 6:00 p.m. on December 24 and 31. Closed on December 25.
Admission: Full rate: 12 € - Reduced rate: 8 € (aged 13-25). Admission free for children under 13.
See the exhibition website
Barefoot in their Delphic sandals, they raised scientific brows to the sky.
Apollinaire [writing about the Steins], October 1907.
The Steins, an American family, moved to Paris in the early the 20th century: Gertrude, an avant-garde writer with her brother Léo at rue de Fleurus; Michael, the elder brother with his wife Sarah at rue Madame. The first buyers of Matisse and Picasso, they held open house to the artistic avant-garde of the period and built up one of the most astonishing collections of modern art.
This exhibition takes a look back at the family’s outstanding contribution to modern art. It shows the importance of the Stein family’s patronage for artists and how this commitment made a mark on the development of taste in modern art. It focuses on: Leo Stein’s perception of the sources of modernity, and dialogue with the intellectuals of the time; Gertrude Stein’s friendship with Picasso; her poetical writings and cubism; Sarah Stein’s links with Matisse; the collaboration between Gertrude and the artists of the twenties and thirties.
This major show will bring together an outstanding selection of works from the Stein family’s different collections: Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Manguin, Bonnard, Vallotton, Laurencin, Gris, Masson, Picabia and more. Divided into eight sections it will shed light on each member of the family: Leo, Sarah, Michael, and Gertrude.
Open daily, including Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Tuesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
During school holidays, open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., including Tuesdays.
Closes at 6:00 p.m. on December 24 and 31. Closed on December 25.
Admission: Full rate: 12 € - Reduced rate: 8 € (aged 13-25). Admission free for children under 13.
See the exhibition website
Toys and us
September 14 2011 – January 23 2012
Exhibition
Les Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
"Toys are our first introduction to art”, Charles Baudelaire
This exhibition, outstanding and totally original in terms of scale and ambition, presents one thousand toys from Antiquity to the present day, and features antique and princely dolls, Barbies, trains, planes, boats, all manner of teddy bears, highly realistic automated figures, combat video games, lead or plastic figurines, flying saucers, a Noah’s ark and even a Father Xmas in an aeroplane.
Toys are partly an imitation of the adult world, while drawing strongly on the imagination, and Toys and us presents a history of toys in the Western world, highlighting their importance in the education of man from birth. The exhibition investigates the ambiguous relationships between children and miniature reproductions of the world of grown-ups. How do children adopt and adapt to a reality conceived on their scale, but always by adults?
How do archetypes like dolls, vehicles or toy soldiers change from one era to another? In what ways do they continue to mimic the adult world and does History produce breaks in tradition? Do children still dream of becoming firemen or schoolmistresses? Toys and games (which imply a set of rules) raise different questions that the exhibition sets out to answer, drawing on both science and sensibility.
The exhibition has been put together in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, which has one of the biggest collections of toys in Europe. Other leading French and international cultural institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The Toy Museum in Nuremberg, The Strong in Rochester (U.S.A.), and many private European collections have contributed to the show.
Whether mass-produced or crafted by celebrated artists like Alexandre Calder, Felix Garcia Torres or Benjamin Rabier, whether they are outstanding objects or just strewn on the carpet in the children’s bedroom, they tell us about the world, its changes, and history, in a way that is often offbeat or strikingly realistic. A generous and diverse choice of paintings, posters, sculptures, films, video games, and video clips accompanies the exhibits.
Open daily (except Tuesday) from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., evening extension Wednesdays till 10:00 p.m. Early opening at 9:00 a.m. during school holidays (mid-Autumn term and Christmas). Closes at 6:00 p.m. on December 24 and 31. Closed on December 25.
The exhibition will be part of the Nuit Blanche on October 1 2011, with admission free from 7:30 p.m. to 0:15 a.m., closing at 1:00 a.m.
Admission: Full rate: 11 € - Reduced rate: 8 € (aged 13-25). Admission free for children under 13.
See the exhibition website
This exhibition, outstanding and totally original in terms of scale and ambition, presents one thousand toys from Antiquity to the present day, and features antique and princely dolls, Barbies, trains, planes, boats, all manner of teddy bears, highly realistic automated figures, combat video games, lead or plastic figurines, flying saucers, a Noah’s ark and even a Father Xmas in an aeroplane.
Toys are partly an imitation of the adult world, while drawing strongly on the imagination, and Toys and us presents a history of toys in the Western world, highlighting their importance in the education of man from birth. The exhibition investigates the ambiguous relationships between children and miniature reproductions of the world of grown-ups. How do children adopt and adapt to a reality conceived on their scale, but always by adults?
How do archetypes like dolls, vehicles or toy soldiers change from one era to another? In what ways do they continue to mimic the adult world and does History produce breaks in tradition? Do children still dream of becoming firemen or schoolmistresses? Toys and games (which imply a set of rules) raise different questions that the exhibition sets out to answer, drawing on both science and sensibility.
The exhibition has been put together in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, which has one of the biggest collections of toys in Europe. Other leading French and international cultural institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The Toy Museum in Nuremberg, The Strong in Rochester (U.S.A.), and many private European collections have contributed to the show.
Whether mass-produced or crafted by celebrated artists like Alexandre Calder, Felix Garcia Torres or Benjamin Rabier, whether they are outstanding objects or just strewn on the carpet in the children’s bedroom, they tell us about the world, its changes, and history, in a way that is often offbeat or strikingly realistic. A generous and diverse choice of paintings, posters, sculptures, films, video games, and video clips accompanies the exhibits.
Open daily (except Tuesday) from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., evening extension Wednesdays till 10:00 p.m. Early opening at 9:00 a.m. during school holidays (mid-Autumn term and Christmas). Closes at 6:00 p.m. on December 24 and 31. Closed on December 25.
The exhibition will be part of the Nuit Blanche on October 1 2011, with admission free from 7:30 p.m. to 0:15 a.m., closing at 1:00 a.m.
Admission: Full rate: 11 € - Reduced rate: 8 € (aged 13-25). Admission free for children under 13.
See the exhibition website
Grand Palais' News
The 2011 - 2012 season at the Grand Palais
Discover the events of the 2011 - 2012 season at the Grand Palais.
Playtime at the Grand Palais
To launch its first season under the new unified Rmn-Grand Palais banner, the Grand Palais has chosen the central theme of play. The joint production will include the Toys and Us exhibition in the Galeries nationales, while Jours de fêtes, celebrating the traditional funfair, returns to the Nave, and the South-East Gallery hosts Game Story, the first ever museum exhibition devoted to the history of video games.
Mondays at the Grand Palais
For Tuesdays at the Grand Palais, read Mondays at the Grand Palais! Discover the news season
2010 Business Report
The 2010 business report looks back on a year that was a turning point in the life of the Rmn - Grand Palais.
Grand Palais, catalogue déraisonné
Writer Tonino Benacquista and photographer Raphaël Gaillarde worked together to produce this superb book devoted to the Grand Palais. Splendid visuals and tasty texts combine to offer a totally original insight into the building that is also a lot of fun. Price: 35 €. In bookshops as from mid-November 2010.
The Grand Palais and the Rmn merge
The Grand Palais and the Rmn were officially united by a government decree on January 13 2011. Jean-Paul Cluzel will be the President of the new organization and has a 5-year mandate.
The Grand Palais launches its iPhone application
Available for free downloads from the Apple Store: the Grand Palais application invites you to learn about the history of the building, life behind the scenes and milestone events!
