and the last room which is shaking of beauty

We had said at the outset: "Picasso and the masters" is an exhibition that will be remembered. The public does there not erred: 450,000 visitors have already surrendered to the Grand Palace. See and review, especially in the first room which establishes the historical continuity between the large in the history of art and the greatest painter of the 20th century. and the last room, which is shaking of beauty. It is not Picasso late years 1965-1970 to prejudge, but the famous "Maja desnuda" Goya, loaned by the Prado, an "Odalisque" in grey (in black and white) signed Ingres of the Metropolitan Museum, a "Venus" of Titian of the Prado, a "bathing women" by Rembrandt of the National Gallery, London and the famous "Olympia" of Manet du Musée d'Orsay. The glories of the great classical museums around the world. The exhibition closes on February 2, but the last three days it will be open twenty-four hours twenty-four and during the Christmas of year up to 23 hours except Thursday ().

Until 26 January the Centre Pompidou presents also a concentrate of masterpieces in "Futurism", a poorly named exhibition, which tells actually interactions between avant-garde European in the 1910s. Large Cubist nudes of Braque and Picasso, futuristic compositions with yellow colour and the idea of the movement as "The dancers" Severini and a long list of enemies talents of academicism, from Marcel Duchamp to Malevich ().

There is no academicism in the hero of "easy Rider", the American legend actor Dennis Hopper. Until 19 January Cinémathèque gives to see his aesthetic universe, his artistic secret garden filled with stars all kinds, from Warhol to the painters of California underground. A paradoxically relatively successful images and references cacophony. ().

Great artists are capable of building a unique world. Mantegna invented in the 15th century painting that gives the illusion of three-dimensional compositions representing multiple readings. "He really sculpted in painting, living and true," says a contemporary poet of Italian engineering. It is grandiose and the Louvre, until 4 January () only

The marriage of contemporary art and a more conventional production is in the air of the time. And if you can't find a place to go and see the Picasso of the Grand Palace, is the Picasso of the Picasso Museum, presented on stage in a box to lose the North signed Daniel Buren. Learned of giant mirrors and scratch games provide a maze-like convoluted space of the hotel Salé until September 1, 2009 ().

Lovers of confrontations between ancient and modern, still you very little time to admire the works of Jeff Koons dispersed in the Royal apartments of Versailles. On January 4 will disappear "Mickael Jackson" porcelain and other giant rabbit in polished metal. The interest of this operation is that it allows to have another look at the work of American artist if media. Koons like decorative arts of the Kings Louis and he confronts them to its oversized and rubs objects out of our daily lives. It is to see especially in night Saturday night up to 22 hours ( /fr).

At Nantes until 23 February, the National Gallery exposes the production of the fifteen Italian years that establishes "great taste" under Louis XIII: Simon Vouet (1590-1649). It is the representative of an elegant and aristocratic beauty. Marseilles, the superb Museum of old charity explores until 11 January the fascination of Van Gogh Painting thick and dark of an artist to success of the second Empire, which however did not posterity, Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886) (). He was dada, surrealist then simply abstract artist. It was Hans Arp (1886-1966), in which the Museum of Modern Art in his hometown of Strasbourg, devoted a retrospective in 180 works. 20Th century of the 20th century. (). one of the major exhibitions in France this season. Until 15 February.