November 10 2011 – January 10 2012/ South-East Gallery

This exhibition marks the reopening of the South-East Gallery, a new exhibition area in the Grand Palais.
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.

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October 5 2011 – January 16 2012 / Galeries nationales of the Grand Palais

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.
 
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September 14 2011 – January 23 2012 / Galeries nationales of the 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?

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October 29 2011 / Nave of the Grand Palais

Rmn-Grand Palais is joining forces with "Le cancer du sein, parlons-en !", an association whose mission is to develop awareness of breast cancer.
On October 29 2011, for the first time, the Grand Palais will be lit up in pink, the symbol of the fight against the disease. The event, on a grand scale, has become part of a tradition of major illuminations organized worldwide for the last 19 years by Estée Lauder Companies. Every year, in October, more than 200 national heritage or natural sites are lit up in pink. Venues have included the Sydney Opera House, the Niagara Falls, the Water Cube in China, and New York’s Rockefeller Center and JF Kennedy Airport.
For the occasion, an impressive pink ribbon will be formed in the Nave with 700 people symbolising 700 hearts in the fight against breast cancer.

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June 22 2011

Every year the Rmn - Grand Palais stages some forty events in Paris, throughout France and abroad, exploring culture in all its forms.
The Grand Palais, one of the French people’s most loved venues, is a showcase of immense prestige in the heart of Paris.
Its programme, including exhibitions, concerts, fashion parades, shows, performances... is at once ambitious and popular, and, in a spirit of cultural democracy, accessible to the widest possible audience.
The 2010 business report looks back on a year that was a turning point in the life of the Rmn - Grand Palais.

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