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Ongoing through Feb. 14 Winter sales with deeper discounts for final weeks

Rétromobile

1 – 5 A century of racing autos plus the European premiere of the Peter Mullin Collection. Porte de

Antique Book Fair

2-12 If you’re searching for that hard to find title this is a great place to start!

Six Nations Rugby Championship

4, 18 France goes for the title in one of the world's oldest rugby championship tournaments

Open GDF Suez Tennis Competition

4-12 Maria Sharipova and the top female tennis stars compete to hold premier rank

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS (ART, FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY & MORE)

Archaeological Crypt of Notre Dame – Crypte Archéologique du Parvis Notre Dame

• Et Lutèce devint Paris, through February 26

Army Museum—Musée de l’Armée

• Permanent collection

Arts et Métiers—see Skilled Arts and Crafts Museum below

Beaux-Arts de Paris

• L’Arbre et le Photographe, February 3 through April 22
• Rembrandt et son Entourage, February 7—20

Branly Museum on Quai Branly—Musée du Quai Branly

• The Invention of the Savage, through June 3

Bourdelle Museum—Musée Bourdelle

• Antoine Bourdelle / Que du Dessin, through March 11

Carnavalet Museum—Musée Carnavalet

• People of Paris in the 19th Century, through February 26
• "Théâtres romantiques à Paris" presented by the Romantic Era Museum (see entry below), March 13 through July 15

Cartier Foundation Gallery—Fondation Cartier

• Mathematics – A Beautiful Elsewhere, through March 18

Children’s Interactive Art Museum—Musée en Herbe

• Keith Haring Hieroglyphs, through March 1

Chocolate Museum—Musee Gourmand du Chocolat

• Victorian chocolate advertising, through March 11

Cinema Museum—Cinémathèque

• Tim Burton, The Exposition, March 7 through August 5

City of Science & Industry Museum & Children's Museum—Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie

• Océan, Climat et Nous, through June 30, 2012
• Gaulois: Une Expo Renversante, through September 2012

Costume & Theater Set Design Museum—Centre National du Costume de Scène

• L’Envers du Décor, January 28 through May 20

Decorative Arts Museum—Musée des Arts Décoratifs

• Maarten Baas, Curiosities, through February 12
• Stefan Sagmeister (advertising art), through February 19
• Goudemalion, Jean-Paul Goude Retrospective, through March 18
• Trompe-l'oeil: Imitations, pastiches et autres illusions, February 2 through November 15, 2012

Eugene Delacroix Museum—Musée national de Eugène Delacroix

European House of Photography—La Maison Européenne de la Photographie (AKA "MEP")

• Eloge du Vertige, through March 25
• Youssef Nabil, through March 25
• Dominique Issermass, Laetitia Casta, through March 25
• William Ropp, Le Sculpteur d’Ombres, through March 25
• Götz Göppet, Les Quatre Saisons, through March 25

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

• Henri Cartier-Bresson/Paul Strand, Mexico, 1932-1934, through April 22

Giverny Impressionism Museum  (by Monet's gardens) -- Giverny Impressionists Museum

• Museum reopens April 1, 2012

Grand Palace Museum, Palace of Discovery—Grand Palais/Palais de la Découverte

• Gaston Fébus (1331-1391), through March 5 (exhibition also at the Cluny Museum)
• Le Cheveu, through August, 2012
• Préhistoires, through June 17
• Le Cheveux, through August 26

Grand Palace National Gallery—Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

• Maiolica Italian Faience in the Time of the Humanists, through February 6
• Flagship exhibition of the Maison de l'histoire de France (see details below): La France en reliefs de Louis XIV à Napoléon III (1668–1873) , through February 17

Holocaust Memorial Museum—Mémorial de la Shoah

• Cinema and the Shoah, through February 20
• Des JO de Berlin aux JO de Londres (1936-1948), through March 18

Jacquemart-André Museum–Musée Jacquemart André

• Autour du Piano (piano recitals), January 21 through March 19
• Le Crépuscule des Pharoans (Egyptian Antiquities), March 23 through July 23

Japan Cultural Center—Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris

• 30th anniversary art exhibitions, 70 Japanese designers who live in France, through February 9
• Masters of the golden age of Japanese genre cinema - VOL.1 - Kenji Misumi and Tai Kato, through February 18
• Jazz in Japan 2011 concerts, performances by: Kazumi Watanabe & Minako Yoshida, Naoko Terai & Richard Galliano and more, March 1 through 3  (Book now)
• Humour, parodie et vidéos, March 28 through June 23

Jeu de Paume

• Diane Arbus, through February 5
• Audrey Cottin: Charlie & Sabrina, through February 5
• Blow Up / Cycle "Side Effects,” virtual exhibition available online through March 15

Jewish Art & History Museum—Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme

• Walter Benjamin Archives, through February 5
• Carole Benzaken, through February 5

Legion of Honor Museum—Musée National de la Légion d’Honneur

• Museum section closed until February 14 (please check before going in case delayed)
• La berline de Napoléon (Napoleon's coaches), March 7 through July 8

Louvre Museum  -- Musée du Louvre

• Le Louvre invite J. M. G. Le Clézio – Le Musée monde, through February 6
• Dessins français de la collection Mariette, through February 6
• Giorgio Vasari - Dessins du Louvre, through February 8
• Les reliques de saint Césaire d’Arles, through February 16
• Fantin-Latour, Manet, Baudelaire - L’Hommage à Delacroix, at the Delacroix Museum through March 19

Luxembourg Garden Museum—Musée du Luxembourg

• Cézanne et Paris, through February 26

MacVal—Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne

• art films by Danish artist Jesper Jest, through February 5
• Expositions à venir, event on March 9

Maillol Museum; Dina Vierny Foundation—Musée Maillol

• Pompéi, through February 12

Maison de Balzac

• Closed for renovations through April

Malmaison—Musée national des Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois Préau

• Permanent collection

Maritime Museum at Palais de Tokyo—Musée Nationale de la Marine

• Closed for renovations until March 7
• Phares (Lighthouses) opens March 7

Modern Art Museum of Paris—Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

• Eko Nugroho, Témoin Hybride (murals), through June 24

• Giorgio de Chirico, Don Peter Doig, Donation et don Bernard Buffet, through June 10
  

Mona Bismarck Foundation  & American Cultural Center/Gallery

• The Wyeths, Three Generations of American Art, through February 12

Montparnasse Museum—Le Musée du Montparnasse

• Francis Carco, Bohème d’Artistes, extended through February 29

National Library of France—Bibliothèque nationale de France (François Mitterand Library)

• Casanova, la passion de la liberté through February 19
• The Belle Epoque of Opera Composer Massenet (1842-1912), through May 13

Natural History Museum -- Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle at Le Jardin des Plantes

• Taxidermie, through March 21
• Au Fil des Araignées, through July 2

Nissim de Camondo Museum

• Permanent collection

Orangerie Museum—Musée de l’Orangerie

• Salon featuring Monet's Nymphéas will be closed until noon on February 1
• Debussy, Music and the Arts, February 21 through June 11

Orsay Museum—Musée d’Orsay

• Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931): A Passion for Finland, February 7 through May 6

Palais Garnier

• No current exhibition

Paris City Hall Gallery—Hôtel de Ville

• "The Chic Parisian," through February 25
• The Drawings of Sempé, EXTENDED through March 31
• Doisneau Paris Les Halles, [link to BonjourParis preview] opens February 8^th through April 28^th

Petit Palais Fine Arts Museum of Paris—Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

• Rabindranath Tagore, through March 11

Pinacothèque Art Museum of Paris -- Pinacothèque

• Les masques de Jade (The Jade Masks), through June 10
  

Pompidou Modern Art Museum—Centre Georges Pompidou

• Des Années 1960 à Nos Jours, through February 13
• UNE INSTALLATION DE MATALI CRASSET LE BLOBTERRE DE MATALI, interactive children's exhibition through March 5
• Danser sa Vie, EXTENDED through April 2
• Brancusi and other exhibitions

Red House Foundation (Albert de Galbert Foundation)— La Maison Rouge

• Closed for renovations until February 16
• Néon, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue, February 17 through May 20

Rodin Museum—Musée Rodin

NOTE: Exceptional closing of the permanent collection through March 2012 for repairs.

• Capturing the Model, 300 Rodin drawings 1890-1917, through April 1 (date change)

Romantic Era Museum—Musée de la Vie Romantique

• La Nouvelle Athènes, permanent exhibition ongoing
• Paris Proche et Lointain, Patrick Faigenbaum, February 12
• "Théâtres romantiques à Paris" presented at Musée Carnavalet, March 13 through July 15

Skilled Arts & Crafts Museum -- Musée des Arts et Métiers

• Permanent collection ongoing
• Radio: Open Your Ears!, February 28 through September 28

Versailles Palace— Château de Versailles

• Concours photos Versailles en famille, through January 8
  
• La garde-robe aux atours de Marie-Antoinette, through January 21

Zadkine (sculpture) Museum & Garden—Musée Zadkine

• Closed through February for maintenance

MUSIC VENUES (POP, ROCK, R&B, JAZZ, CLASSICAL)

Autour du Piano

Series of intimate recitals and concerts at several locations, including the Jacquemart-André Museum, Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, and the Foundation Dosne-Thiers. Please click name for schedule.

Bercy

8, 9 Music Bank – K-Pop Festival

14 GiedRé

Châtelet Theater Grand Foyer Concerts— Grand Foyer du Châtelet

10 Soirée Classique: Autour de Piano

Cigale Theater—La Cigale

3 Sniper

7 through March 4   The Best of Des Chevaliers du Fiel

Olympia Concert Hall— L’Olympia

1 Letz Zep

2 Dropkick Murphy’s

3 The Artic Monkeys

4 Justice

5 Fiesta Gipsy

6 Cowboys Fringants

8-12 Anthony Kavanagh

15 Louis Bertignac

16 Alan Stivell

17 Richard Anthony

18 La Compangnie Creole

19 Georges Chelon

25 Le Bal

26 Genesis: The Musical Box

27, 28 Rodrigo Y Gabriella

29 LMFAO

Le Palais des Congrès de Paris

5 Swan Lake

11 Zazie

Palais des Sports

Adam and Eve, a new musical, through March 6

Salle Pleyel (Classical, Jazz & World Music)

1, 2, 15, 16, 22, 29 Orchestre de Paris

3, 10 Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

4 Eva-Maria Westbroek

6, 7 New York Philharmonic

14 Pollini Perspectives

16 Le Roi David

17 Académie de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France et Conservatoire

18 Orchestre Pasdeloup

18 Orchestre de l’Opera de Paris

22 Prélude

25 Ensemble Constantinople

26 Natalie Dessay

28 Cycle Schubert 2: Matthias Goerne

Stade de France

Dark in February

Zénith Concert Hall—Le Zénith

1, 2 Indochine

3 Dream Theater

4 Arctic Monkeys

5 David d’Or

9-19 Holiday on Ice

JAZZ CLUBS (see each site for nightly shows)

Baiser Salé

Caveau de la Huchette

Caveau des Oubliettes

Duc des Lombards

Méridien Étoile

New Morning

12 Nick Lowe and Band

Le Petit Journal Montparnasse

14 Catia Werneck

Sunside/Sunset

Swan Bar

AUTHORS, BOOK-SIGNINGS & LITERARY EVENTS

American Library in Paris

1 Evenings with an Author: Fernanda Eberstadt presents her latest novel Rat.

7 Evenings with an Author: Monique Wells will discuss the common threads found among various foods and methods of food preparation in Africa and its Diaspora and their cultural significance among African Diaspora peoples.

8 Evenings with an Author: Pamela Cruckerman explores the secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children in Bringing Up Bébé.

15 Evenings with an Author: Robert Camuto, Noella Marcellino and Denyse Beaulieu - Passion Panel about Wine, Cheese and Perfume

25 Evenings with an Author: John Morris, who has been called "the world's most influential photography editor," will talk about his legendary career.

Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore

No events announced as of publication date

Shakespeare and Co.

6 John Baxter, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

8 Fred Leebron, writing workshop

16 Celine Curiol, Brandon Ross – words and music

20 Louise Doughty, Whatever You Love

Village Voice Bookshop

No author events announced as of publication date

W.H. Smith

OPERA, BALLET & THEATRE PERFORMANCES

Opéra Garnier [Palais Garnier]

• Orphée et Eurydice, February 4—16
• La Cerisaie, through February 13

Opéra Bastille

• La Dame de Pique, through February 6
• Manon, through February 13
• Rigoletto, through February 23
• Pelléas et Mélisande, February 28 through March 16

Royal Opera House of Versailles

• Le Roi et le Fermier, February 4 and 5
• Rameau Dardanus, February 16

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