The July APOLLO reported that the Centre Pompidou, Paris, is planning to open a museum outpost in China

Apollo, Dec, 2004 by Samson Spanier

The July APOLLO reported that the Centre Pompidou, Paris, is planning to open a museum outpost in China. Such an initiative will take several years to complete, but in the meantime the museum is lending much art to China. Picasso's theatre curtain of 1917 for the ballet Parade (that had a libretto by Cocteau set to music by Satie) was seen by 1.5 million people at the IFC2 mall in Hong Kong in October (left). 'Nouvelles Vagues', an exhibition of contemporary French art, opens on 15 January at the Museum of Fine Arts, Shanghai, and then travels to Guangzhou and Beijing. Finally, 'Paris des photographes' opens in March in Guangzhou.

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