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Fine Arts Exhibition
Star performer

Kerry James Marshall, The Histories

Every day at 10am from Sep. 22 to Jan. 24

At Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

Gros-Caillou, Paris

"rewrites the scale of history painting" (Artlovers)
"everyday Black life treated with the compositional ambition of grand history painting" (Artlovers)
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Four decades in the making, Kerry James Marshall's first French exhibition fills the Musée d'Art Moderne with 70 vivid, monumental canvases that put Black life at the center of the frame. Eight paintings made just for this show close it out.

They recommend it:

Wednesday, November 11, 10:00 AM

Free – €17

What are you into?

  • Monumental paintings
  • First France retrospective
  • Black art history
  • Civil Rights themes
  • Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
  • Gros-Caillou
  • Paris

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