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After Giuseppe Penone in 2013, a new contemporary installation opened in the gardens of the Château de Versailles last week, by minimalist South Korean born artist and philosopher Lee Ufan. Ten [...]

The latest in the Château de Versailles’ contemporary art program comes from Italian sculptor and conceptual artist Giuseppe Penone, a young member of the radical 60s art movement [...]

The new and flamboyant contemporary show up at Versailles is by Lisbon artist Joana Vasconcelos. She is the first woman and the youngest contemporary artist to show here since Versailles started [...]

If Chanel presented their Cruise Collection at Versailles only yesterday, Dior got in first, celebrating their 60th birthday at the palace back in 2007, and their new video is set there too. [...]

A new milestone  in the saga of Jean-Jacques Aillagon’s polemical contemporary art programme at Versailles. After blockbuster exhibitions by international contemporary art stars Jeff Koons [...]

After the exhibition devoted to Madame Grés at the Musée Bourdelle, the Musée Galliera, closed until 2012 for major renovations, curates a new exhibition, this time in the plush apartments of the [...]

Sibling design duo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have won the competition to work on ‘enhancing’ Versailles’ extraordinary Gabriel staircase, which leads to the royal apartments. [...]

An annex to the Versailles Palace is set to become a luxury, 23 room hotel. The Hotel du Grand Control, formerly quarters to the King’s treasurer, has fallen into desrepair over the last 2 [...]

After Jeff Koons and Xavier Veilhan, this year contemporary Japanese artist Murakami will be bringing his super bright and superflat  art to Louis IX’s opulent abode for the season’s [...]

The hyperactive and hyper-creative singer Camille will be performing a new piece ‘God is Sound’ comprising chants from different religious traditions: Christian, Sufi, Buddhist, Jewish, Shinto, [...]