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No artist captured the essence and charm of Venice better than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. This remarkable collection of over 200 paintings, drawings and etchings allows us to discover Canaletto's artistic talent, his contemporaries and the city he reproduced with genius. The film also opens the doors of two official royal residences, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, to reveal more about the artist and Joseph Smith, the man who introduced Canaletto to Britain.

This famous art gallery in Berlin holds one of the world’s leading collections of European works by Old Masters. Here you can find “The Fountain of Youth” by Cranach the Elder, or the earthy “Netherlandish Proverbs” illustrated by Bruegel. Allow yourself to be tempted by the sensuality of Correggio (“Leda and the Swan”) or of Titian (“Venus with Organist”), by the poetry of “The Glass of Wine”, a genre painting by Vermeer, or by the gracious “Iris or the Dance” by Watteau. Enjoy your visit!

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!

In 1871, a giant fire ravaged Chicago, providing a unique opportunity for a young generation of American architects to break away from the old continent and invent in Chicago the new forms of a specifically American architecture.

The School of Architecture in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza, reflects his minimalist approach and respect for the surrounding context. Inaugurated in 1993, the school harmoniously integrates with the landscape, featuring simple volumes and abundant natural light. Siza used modest materials like white concrete, giving the building an elegant sobriety. The spaces are designed to encourage interaction between students and teachers, fostering an open and fluid learning environment. This building perfectly embodies Siza's architectural philosophy, where function and poetry meet.

Federico Gentili di Giuseppe was a Jewish businessman of Italian origin with a passion for art. On his death in 1940, he bequeathed a collection of 150 paintings to his two children, Marcel and Adriana, who had become naturalised French citizens. In 1941, Maître Moulin auctioned off these paintings under questionable circumstances. This marked the beginning of a legal battle waged by the Gentili di Giuseppe heirs, which was to last nearly 50 years.

Painted in 1911, Pablo Picasso’s "La Coiffeuse" is an iconic work of Cubism. The painting was last seen in 1998, following a loan for an exhibition in Munich. On its return to Paris, it was stored in the Centre Pompidou’s storerooms… until the day it was discovered to be missing, in 2001. Had it been stolen from the storerooms? Sixteen years after the theft, in 2014, a ship docked at the port of Newark, in New Jersey, USA. The artwork was on board…

In 2010, five masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani and Léger went missing. A year into the investigation, the police arrested the burglar, Vrejan Tomic. A repeat offender, with 11 art thefts to his name, he usually works to order. In this case, the client was Jean-Michel Corvez. Wrapped in bin bags, these unsellable works were found at the home of a third man, Yonathan Birn. How? Why?

Vandalised, stolen, cut into pieces, melted down and resold for a few thousand euros, even though they are worth millions: sculptures. On the night of 30–31 March 1999, whilst this park in the 6th arrondissement was closed to the public, individuals stole the sculpture of Picasso’s former muse and lover, Dora Maar: ‘Head of a Woman’, an 80-centimetre-tall bronze weighing 80 kilos. Two years later, in a town hall in the Paris suburbs, it stood proudly on the staircase: ‘Do you realise you’ve got a Picasso in your building?’ exclaimed an antique dealer who had come to visit the château. Indeed, the town hall had found a ‘large stone’ buried on a plot of land, had it cleaned, thought it was beautiful and displayed it in their château, unaware that it was a sculpture by Picasso…

Prog rocker Rick Wakeman and best mate Ian Lavender, loved as Pike from Dad’s Army, enjoy a jolly B-road ride around Norfolk. In the company of experts Raj Bisram and David Harper the two antique hunting celebrities scour the county for treasure to take to auction in Nottingham. Rick also uncovers some hidden medieval graffiti in Norwich Cathedral while Ian detours to north Norfolk to see the world’s largest collection of model soldiers. But, will an wise old Japanese man help Ian win at auction?

Nicolas Poussin is quite a paradox! He personified the typical classical French painter, but spent most of his life in Rome… That is where he made his name, gradually progressing from public commissions to private commissions, to finally painting only for a clientele of enthusiastic European art collectors. For them he painted masterpieces which you are about to discover: Et in Arcadia Ego, The Judgement of Solomon, and the Four Seasons. Enjoy your visit! 2013, France.

Pablo Picasso is one of the world's greatest artists, and until his death in 1973, he was its most prolific. How did it all begin? After being ignored for too long, it's time to focus on the artist's early years and the upbringing that enabled him to achieve the extraordinary. Three cities played a key role: Malaga, Barcelona and Paris. Young Picasso traverses them and explores their influence on the artist, analyzing specific works from his early years.

This eagerly-awaited exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts was the first-ever retrospective devoted to the portraiture of Édouard Manet. Covering the entire career of this enigmatic and sometimes controversial artist, the exhibition brought together works from Europe, Asia and the United States. Manet's portraiture has never been the subject of an exhibition, although it represents around half of his artistic output. He painted his family, friends and the literary, political and artistic figures of the day, bringing to life not only his subjects but also Parisian society.

Multi-award-winning director Phil Grabsky takes a fresh look at arguably the world's most beloved artist, using the words of the painter himself. I, Claude Monet reveals new facets of the man who gave birth to the Impressionist movement with one painting, and who was certainly one of the most influential and renowned painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Shot on location across Europe, I, Claude Monet is an unprecedented, intimate film exploration of some of Western art's most beloved cult settings.

"I envy the Japanese", wrote Van Gogh to his brother Theo. Thanks to the exhibition on which this film is based, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, we understand why. Although Vincent van Gogh never visited Japan, it remains the country that had the greatest influence on him and his work. By visiting Japanese art galleries in Paris and creating his own image of Japan after extensive research, print collections and lengthy discussions with other artists, the discovery of Japanese art took van Gogh's career in an exciting new direction.

Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.

Francisco Goya, considered the founder of modern art, is Spain's most acclaimed artist. As well as a gifted observer of Spanish life and its turbulent past, he is a gifted portraitist and social commentator. With Goya, the art of portraiture reached new heights. This major exhibition at London's National Gallery brings his genius back into the spotlight. Through a formidable collection of unique works and letters by Goya, we analyze the man himself and the world he painted.

David Hockney, generally considered one of Britain's most popular artists, has enjoyed worldwide success throughout his life, with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and elsewhere attracting millions of visitors. This film reveals intimate, previously unseen interviews and focuses on two successful exhibitions that took place in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

TV chefs Aldo Zilli and Ching He-Huang do battle on this Road Trip around South Eastern England, aided by experts Natasha Raskin and Paul Laidlaw. Aldo plumps for a gold ring despite expert advice while Ching hopes antiques with an eastern origin will far well at auction in north London. Aldo stops off to meet a 200 year old named ‘Jill’ to hear how she supplied locals with flour. And animal lover Ching learns how one man faced ridicule and ruin while trying to protect cattle in the 19th century.

It’s a journey into antiquity with glamorous historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Kate Williams. Paired with experts David Harper and Catherine Southon they Road Trip from Bletchley in Buckinghamshire to an auction in London. There’s also opportunity to hear how Mrs Beeton became the first ‘domestic Goddess’ and why Luton played a critical role in the fashion world when hats were de rigueur daily wear. David and Suzannah gamble on a giant ant while Catherine and Kate plump for a very large tea urn.

In 2010, five masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani and Léger went missing. A year into the investigation, the police arrested the burglar, Vrejan Tomic. A repeat offender, with 11 art thefts to his name, he usually works to order. In this case, the client was Jean-Michel Corvez. Wrapped in bin bags, these unsellable works were found at the home of a third man, Yonathan Birn. How? Why?

Painted in 1911, Pablo Picasso’s "La Coiffeuse" is an iconic work of Cubism. The painting was last seen in 1998, following a loan for an exhibition in Munich. On its return to Paris, it was stored in the Centre Pompidou’s storerooms… until the day it was discovered to be missing, in 2001. Had it been stolen from the storerooms? Sixteen years after the theft, in 2014, a ship docked at the port of Newark, in New Jersey, USA. The artwork was on board…

Federico Gentili di Giuseppe was a Jewish businessman of Italian origin with a passion for art. On his death in 1940, he bequeathed a collection of 150 paintings to his two children, Marcel and Adriana, who had become naturalised French citizens. In 1941, Maître Moulin auctioned off these paintings under questionable circumstances. This marked the beginning of a legal battle waged by the Gentili di Giuseppe heirs, which was to last nearly 50 years.

Sisley was a British Impressionist painter, closely associated with Renoir and Monet. On 20 June 1978, at 8.30 pm, a truck was stolen. Inside were around ten masterpieces worth 1.5 billion francs. The transport company responsible for returning the works following a loan had made no security arrangements. On 21 September 1998, ‘The Avenue of Poplars’ was stolen once again. This time, it was the curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice, Jean Fornéris, who staged his own abduction! Finally, on Sunday 5 August 2007, five masked and armed men held up staff at the Nice museum to steal four paintings, including the Sisley. It was not until 2008, with the help of the FBI – which was also searching for works stolen from the Boston Museum – that the thieves were arrested.

Paul Sérusier spent his entire summer of 1888 painting with Paul Gauguin in Pont-Aven, Brittany. This master of colour gave invaluable advice to the young Sérusier, who was part of the new generation of painters known as the Post-Impressionists. The Impressionists favoured the visual sensation of the motif, but they had not broken with the illusionist rendering of nature.

In no way was Pierre Bonnard destined to be a painter. However, he became one of the pillars of the Nabi Movement. His work, more closely linked to emotions than to realism, is impossible to classify. It is punctuated with huge sunny landscapes, of both the Mediterranean and Normandy, with interior scenes, with nudes and self portraits. This exhibition offers you ten of the artist’s greatest paintings, such as his famous “Workshop with Mimosa” and his “Nude in Bathtub”. Enjoy your visit!

The German Pavilion at the 1929 World's Fair in Barcelona holds the record for fame per m2 built. A flat roof, 8 metal posts and a dozen walls. How and why did this minimal structure come to embody twentieth-century modernity? Apart from its iconic dimension, the Pavilion had no other function than to host a one-off reception for the King and Queen of Spain, for less than an hour, on the opening day of the exhibition. Here, Mies van der Rohe gives his own vision of the new architecture.

Gutenberg is considered the father of modern printing. The story goes that he was inspired by the grape press used by wine growers to invent his machine. From this historical anecdote, two artists have undertaken to publish a book that will quench the thirst of any gourmet reader. In this episode, we will meet Luz and Anaïs, two opposite and absolutely complementary artists.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Zoe Ball and Ian Waite are quickstepping their way across the south West of England in a bid to turn a profit at auction in Hampshire. Experts Margie Cooper and Paul Laidlaw are on hand to guide. Paul shares a secret with Zoe about buying antique hair brushes. Ian, though, offers dancing lessons to dealers to secure a discount. Lordy! Zoe also hears how one village became world famous for lace production while Ian ends up meeting a giant horse with its own boat.

Today, we give you an appointment under the sun of Marseille where two candidates will compete to determine who will be the best photographer. The two candidates are Clotilde Penet and Natalie Kovachevski, and they will have one hour to take the best photograph on the imposed theme of art and rock.

In this episode, we will focus on the gardens of Giverny. Marcel Proust was so fond of the gardens of Giverny, created by Claude Monet, not far from Paris. However, the author of the novel "Du côté de chez Swann", never saw the gardens. This shows the imagination that these gardens unfold, even though they were skilfully designed for more than 40 years by the master of the place, Claude Monet.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. You will discover his labour with Psyche showing her sisters her gifts from cupid, The storm, Night scene or the Beggar’s dream.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Edouard Manet. You will discover his labour with Lola de valence, Olympia, Eel and red mullet.

David Hockney, generally considered one of Britain's most popular artists, has enjoyed worldwide success throughout his life, with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and elsewhere attracting millions of visitors. This film reveals intimate, previously unseen interviews and focuses on two successful exhibitions that took place in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Named Euphrosyne, Thalia and Aglaia, they embody mirth, abundance and splendour. They are the Three Graces, daughters of Jupiter and companions of Venus. A very prized subject as early as the Renaissance, it allowed for a triple representation of the female nude in all its ideal beauty. Observe their grace in the painting by Raphael and the delicacy of their veils in Botticelli’s “La Primavera” or in a magnificent work by Cranach recently acquired by the Louvre Museum. Enjoy your visit!

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!

Built between 1954 and 1961 in Evreux, near Lyon, by Le Corbusier, La Tourette convent was designed to serve as a place of residence, study, and prayer for 100 Dominicans. It is considered one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture.

The Paris Fine Arts School is one of the oldest and most prestigious art schools. Félix Duban (1797-1870) became its architect in the wake of the 1830 revolution. He would transform this high place of creativity into a veritable palette of architectures. From the Porticus of Octavia in Rome to the Florentine palaces, from the loggias of the Vatican to the polychrome frescoes of Pompeii, everything here is a citation, a souvenir - of Duban's study trip to Italy, for example - but also an ode to the past that remains exemplary for the students. Everything is created to educate the eye of these future artists. Duban thus organizes the general composition of the space around authentic fragments of monuments of the French Renaissance, harmoniously cohabiting different traditions and styles. It is a romantic vision of architecture - in rebellion against the academicism of the time -, a tribute to art as a whole whose perenniality is explained by its very diversity. Archives, models: a fasci

Willy Pierre-Joseph is a professional dancer. He also organizes "training parties" at the Centquatre with his association Wynkl, where improvisation and exchange between dancers are privileged moments. The artist Noël Rasendrason likes to capture these moments that feed his imagination of movement and music. In this report, we will alternate between Willy's training party and Noël's drawing workshop.

The time of the summer, in a village named La Gacilly, the gardens, the walls of house are transformed to a photo gallery dedicated to the art. Discover the experience of La Gacilly.

He is one of the most controversial artists, yet one of the most influential. Picasso's collection contained mainly Renoirs. Matisse revered him. Monet too. Renoir was crucial to the creation of the Impressionist movement, before rejecting it altogether to embark on a radically different genre, with great success. The Barnes Collection in Philadelphia has more paintings by Renoir than any other gallery in the world, and it's here that we'll attempt to lift the veil on the remarkable story of this incredible artist.

The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this renaissance genius? Who was this ambitious and passionate man? A virtuoso craftsman, Michelangelo’s artistry is evident in everything he touched. Beautiful and diverse works such as the towering statue of David, the deeply moving Pietà in the Papal Basilica of St. Peter and his tour-de-force, the Sistine Chapel ceiling still leave us breathless today.

Actor and charmer Nigel Havers and his canny, deal-making chum (and ex-agent) Michael Whitehall explore the West Country. Travelling by Bentley and TVR, they’ll have £400 each and expert advice from Margie Cooper and James Braxton. But what will do best at the auction... Nigel’s old cockle bucket or Michael’s tambourine? Plus there’s a trip to see some Bristol Savages and bit of Georgian elegance with the story of ‘The King of Bath’.

In 1897, Sir Henry Tate, an industrialist and art collector, offered his private art collection to the British nation and financed the construction of the Tate Gallery to house it. Renamed Tate Britain in 2000, the gallery is dedicated to British art. There are masterpieces by the most prestigious of British artists, such as William Blake’s Newton, John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shallot and Henry Wallace’s Chatterton. Enjoy your visit!

"I envy the Japanese", wrote Van Gogh to his brother Theo. Thanks to the exhibition on which this film is based, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, we understand why. Although Vincent van Gogh never visited Japan, it remains the country that had the greatest influence on him and his work. By visiting Japanese art galleries in Paris and creating his own image of Japan after extensive research, print collections and lengthy discussions with other artists, the discovery of Japanese art took van Gogh's career in an exciting new direction.

In 2013, Norway celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch (1863-1944), one of the most prominent figures in modern art. Munch 150, co-produced by the National Museum and the Munch Museum, is already being hailed as "the exhibition of a lifetime". Public interest is enormous, as evidenced by the record-breaking $120 million public auction result for one of his four paintings, The Scream. This presentation will take you behind the scenes of how this exhibition came to be, as well as including a guided tour of Norway, outlining the biography of this man whose life spanned the mid-19th century to the German occupation during the Second World War.

Narrated by Gillian Anderson, this episode of Exhibition on Screen follows the footsteps of French artists such as Renoir and Monet, the American Impressionist movement forged its own path. Painted over a period of 40 years, these paintings reveal the United States both as a nation and as a creative breeding ground. The history of this movement is closely linked to the love of gardens and the desire to preserve nature in a country undergoing rapid urbanization. This enchanting journey through workshops, gardens and famous sites in the USA, UK and France is a feast for the eyes.

Lucian Freud, one of the most famous British painters of our time, is also one of the few twentieth-century artists to have portrayed himself so consistently in self-portraiture. His self-portraits provide a fascinating insight into both his personality and his development as a painter, from his first portrait in 1939 to his last. Through fascinating interviews with former models, friends and leading experts, this intensely captivating documentary reveals the work of a master who represents a compelling study of the dynamics of aging and the process of self-representation.

Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.

Passionate about horticulture, Monet remains the undisputed master of garden painting in the history of art, but he was not alone. Artists such as Van Gogh, Bonnard, Picasso and Matisse used the garden as a strong theme in their work. These great artists, along with many other famous names, are brought together in an innovative exhibition from the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Gallery of Arts in London. From the exhibition itself to the beauty of artists' gardens such as Monet's at Giverny, we take a journey to discover how the modern garden was used to explore radical and wondrous new ideas.

In June 2017, a major exhibition opened in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. For the first time, this exhibition brought together all Cézanne's portraits. This was an opportunity to analyze Cézanne's work with the help of international experts and to tour the rooms of the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Two legends of British comedy, Ronni Ancona and Jan Ravens are joined on this Road Trip by antiquers Phil Serrell and James Braxton. Starting in the North Yorkshire town of Redcar they’ll head for auction in Stockport in Cheshire. Jan gets rather carried away and spends every single penny of her entire budget. While Ronni gets a kick out of a very kitsch glass boot. A quick detour sees Jan find out why Hartlepudlians thought a monkey was a Frenchman and Ronni is left open mouthed when Braxton takes off his clothes. Crikey!

Two favourite Blue Peter presenters Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan are in the company of Natasha Raskin and Catherine Southon as they hunt for antiques around Surrey, Hertfordshire and North West London. Peter detours to learn how hockey became a popular sport the world over while keen aviator Sarah sees how the Battle of Britain was won. An incredible haul of antiques, including chimney pots, Pinocchio and a pair of African fertility figures, go under the gavel at an auction in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

Exhibition on Screen takes us through the streets of Paris and then to the heart of a superb exhibition at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, whose impressive collection of Degas works is the most representative in Britain. Having benefited from exclusive access to a wide variety of rare works, the film tells the story of Degas' quest for perfection through experimentation.

The Birth of Venus... a masterpiece; central to Botticelli's oeuvre and the culmination of Florentine Neoplatonism. We have no archival records or direct documentation: the date, intended destination, and exact identification of the figures are left to interpretation and disagreement among various specialists. An unparalleled iconological training, Botticelli's allegories are a real headache not only for art historians, but also for historians of literature and philosophy, lovers of the occult sciences, and even botanists, astronomers, Kabbalists, historians of Christianity... Perhaps only the Mona Lisa has been the subject of more writings and interpretations than the “Allegory of Spring,” and Venus Rising from the Waves is undoubtedly one of the very few paintings immediately recognizable to the general public.

During the 20th century, the fame of the ‘Mona Lisa’ spread, establishing itself as the most iconic and recognisable painting of all time. It has been exploited in every sphere of culture and advertising, to the extent that its status as a pop icon has almost overshadowed its artistic value and historical significance. But if we consider Leonardo’s achievements as a pioneering craftsman and the unprecedented qualities of this work, the ‘Mona Lisa’ truly marked a turning point in portraiture. A masterpiece that set new standards in its day and which, five hundred years later, has become the very symbol of art.

Where do we start when we want to talk about such a famous painting as Velázquez “Las Meninas”? There is an incredibly huge bibliography on this painting, to the point that it is almost utopian to think or hope we can document ourselves on everything in and about it... From the late 1800s to the early 2000s, dozens of books have come out all over the world specifically and solely devoted to this one, single painting. A parallel literary current has even developed around the “enigmas” and “mysteries” connected with “Las Meninas”.

The story of “The Calling of Saint Matthew” begins on a hot summer day in Rome in 1600, the Jubilee Year. The entire Eternal City is a construction site: streets are full of scaffolding, dust clouds, loose cobblestones, the continuous banging of hammers and rasping of saws, carpenters with Lombard accents, errand boys shouting across the streets in Roman dialect, stevedores unloading barrels and crates from boats along the Tiber. The narrow streets in the town center are full of jostling tourists and monsignors rushing to get somewhere, and every once in a while the crowd parts to let a sedan chair or carriage of a cardinal through. Convent bells ring, droves of pilgrims mass along the routes connecting the old basilicas, reciting the rosary as they go. Not a day goes by without the opening of a new church, an oratory, or a chapel. Fascinated by this hubbub, dozens of artists from every nation roam the classical ruins and new palaces in the heat and dust (!) drawing everything they see

For almost 500 years, a large painting showing two young women at a fountain has been seen as an absolute hymn to beauty and love, executed by the young Titian who had set out to conquer the Venetian art scene. It is a solemn, luminous song, looking onto a bright, harmonious universe; it is the first true masterpiece of the twenty-five-year-old painter who knowingly started revolutionizing the history of painting. As one of his contemporaries said, Titian “walks hand in hand with nature; all of his figures are alive, move, and their flesh quivers.” After changing hands several times among different Venetian collections, it was finally purchased by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in 1608 for the Roman collection to which it still belongs today. The painting soon lost all ties with the person who commissioned it, and came to be understood as a broad, universal allegory of love, of two possible forms of love; the “sacred” and the “profane”.

Private Tour takes you to discover the Emil Bührle collection at the Maillol Museum in Paris. This collection is that of Emil Bührle, a student of art history who became passionate about collecting Monet's works after a visit to the National Gallery in Berlin. He started his collection with works by Claude Monet, but continued to fill it with works by Cézanne, Gauguin... Works that you can observe during this visit.

He experimented with a technique that would later be described as pointillist. He juxtaposed fine complementary touches of paint, seeking purity and luminosity. There are a few bluish, rounded reflections in the orange, giving it relief by simply sketching out the details.

The Centre Administratif de Pantin, a gigantic vessel of raw concrete, washed up on the banks of the Ourcq Canal in the early 1970s, in a Paris suburb known as the “Red Belt”. Its architect, Jacques Kalisz, had not yet built anything. Sensitive to Marxist theories, he had no formal qualifications at the time. The mayor of Pantin commissioned him to design an unprecedented facility, the Cité Administrative, which was to bring together a range of administrative, social and legal services (court, social security, police station, tax office, trade union center, ANPE, morgue, kennels, etc.), all in a single location. 20 years later, the center is deserted. It was the failure of a social utopia. The “People's Palace” is nothing but an empty shell. Destroying it would have been too expensive. So it was decided to renovate it. In 2004, the building underwent a radical change of use: offices and employees gave way to dance companies and rehearsal studios. A new cultural center, the Centre Nat

Suzanne Valadon was born in 1865. Her son, Maurice Utrillo, was born in 1883. Both were painters, and lived part of their lives in the Montmartre district of Paris. It was a flourishing period for the village. It was in this atmosphere that they enjoyed their hours of glory and drama.

Prog rocker Rick Wakeman and best mate Ian Lavender, loved as Pike from Dad’s Army, enjoy a jolly B-road ride around Norfolk. In the company of experts Raj Bisram and David Harper the two antique hunting celebrities scour the county for treasure to take to auction in Nottingham. Rick also uncovers some hidden medieval graffiti in Norwich Cathedral while Ian detours to north Norfolk to see the world’s largest collection of model soldiers. But, will an wise old Japanese man help Ian win at auction?

Today, Photo Contest takes you to Lyon, the capital of Gaules. The two candidates of the day are Quentin Richard and Jean-Elie Malemoussa, and they will have one hour to take the best photograph on the theme of the river. And since they are in Lyon, it is the Saône that will be the star behind their lenses.

Gregor Hildebrandt has chosen to set up his workshop in the Wedding district of Berlin. The artist creates paintings and installations from pre-recorded magnetic sound tapes. It is a mise en abîme in works where the music becomes inaudible. The canvas preciously keeps in it the sounds and the notes which exist only in the head of the spectator and that of the artist.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Paul Cezanne. You will discover his labour with his still-life, mill on the Couleuvre at Pontoise, Young girl with doll.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Auguste Renoir. You will discover his labour with Girls at the piano, The Bathers, still-life with apples and pears.