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Join the Wu Tsang Clan

FIAC art fair may have bitten the dust this year for reasons that don’t need explaining, but there’s ample compensation across town this week in the form of exhibitions, gallery nocturnes, and FIAC week off-shoots now stepping into the limelight (just remember to be home by 9pm). From next Wed, over at Lafayette Anticipations, transgender activist-artist Wu Tsang has created a hybrid space animated by music, dance, theatre and performance. Her first show in France pivots around monumental video installation ‘The Show is Over’ (2020), a kind of multi-layered dance-opera mash-up rewriting historical legacies relating to blackness.
>lafayetteanticipations.com

Making News: Matisse at the Centre Pompidou

The biggest Matisse show in France in 50 years is coming to the Pompidou Centre, marking what would have been the artist’s 150th birthday. Opening next Wednesday after pandemic-related delays, Matisse, comme un roman riffs on the title of a novel by Louis Aragon, setting the tone for its focus on the influence of literature on the Fauvism founder's work. Expect nine chronological chapters telling the story of his life, from his debut in 1890 through to his final oeuvre in 1950, with literary interventions exploring links to writers such as Mallarmé along the way.
>centrepompidou.fr

Souvenir Shop

M to M of M/M Paris (Vol. 2) - A second weighty monograph updates us on the oeuvre of the radical, all-conquering art and design studio, est. in Paris in 1992, eight years after the publication of Volume I. Interviews with the founders frame 850 images of their projects, interspersed with a series of conversations with rarely-heard personalities. >@mmparisdotcom

Wild Recipes - Plant-food pioneer Emma Sawko, behind the ever-growing empire of Wild & The Moon eateries, shares more addictive, gluten-free and eco-conscious vegan recipes in a new book for Flammarion. As a bonus, there's also a superfood lexicon and a city guide with Emma's favourite addresses for superfoodies in Paris, NYC and Dubai.
> www.wildandthemoon.fr