Clair-obscur at the Bourse de Commerce
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Clair-obscur at the Bourse de Commerce

The Pinault Collection's latest exhibition, Clair-obscur, assembles roughly hundred works by 27 artists that meditate on the darkness of our present time. Pierre Huyghe's "Camata" and Sigmar Polke's "Axial Age" alone make it worth visiting.
Further Reading
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Further Reading

Solvej Balle’s time loop. Chantal Akerman’s predicament. Schubert’s imagination. György Kurtág at 100. Why rivers in the far north are turning orange. Coding after coders. U.S. rail service. Archimedes. László Krasznahorkai. Jürgen Habermas. And more.
Birds at the Mauritshuis
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Birds at the Mauritshuis

The Mauritshuis has mounted a small but wonderful exhibition about humanity's fraught relationship with birds curated by The Goldfinch and the British writer and art historian Simon Schama.
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
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Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has organized an ambitious exhibition devoted to Ovid's "Metamorphoses", assembling roughly eighty exceptional works by the likes of Bernini, Caravaggio, Titian, Poussin, Rodin and Louise Bourgeois.
Monster’s Paradise
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Monster’s Paradise

Monster's Paradise, the latest collaboration between Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, directed by Tobias Kratzer is a highly entertaining take on the current state of the world in the form of an opera.